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Ralph and Bette Thomas Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$200,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$565,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 2
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$21M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ralph and Bette Thomas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$1.2M83%
FY20242$800k0%
FY20232$250kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$861kReligion$800kHealth$565kHuman Services$5kCrime & Legal$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for New American Media Inc$450,000215%
Scenic Houston Inc$1,0001n/a
Bridges to Life$5001n/a

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.

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About Ralph and Bette Thomas Foundation

How much does Ralph and Bette Thomas Foundation give?
Ralph and Bette Thomas Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $1,181,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 2 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Ralph and Bette Thomas Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Religion (36%), Health (25%).
Who are Ralph and Bette Thomas Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Center for New American Media Inc ($450k), Scenic Houston Inc ($1k), Bridges to Life ($500).
Does Ralph and Bette Thomas Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ralph and Bette Thomas Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Ralph and Bette Thomas Foundation based?
Ralph and Bette Thomas Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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