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Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati

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.

$23k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$200
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,500
Organizations funded a year
12 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$460k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$23k46%
FY202421$32k43%
FY202323$24k61%
FY202219$17k42%
FY202120$20k55%
FY202017$23k53%
FY201912$19k58%
FY201814$22k43%
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$130kHuman Services$17kPublic Benefit$14kEducation$13kCommunity Improvement$5kArts & Culture$4kFood & Nutrition$2kHealth$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
CA
VA
NM
TN
DC
OK
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Citizens News Guild Inc$4,00040%
Manor Park Inc$3,90070%
Midland Christian School$1,45050%
Bynum School$1,35020%
The Junior League of Fort Worth Inc$1,00010%
Hill Country 100 Club Inc$1,00011%
The Junior League of Midland Inc$1,00030%
Empower Texans$1,0001n/a
West Texas Food Bank$95050%
Freedom Center Texas$95040%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$75030%
Denison Ministries$6502n/a
Midland College$6502n/a
Lincoln County Food Bank$5001n/a
Aphasia Center of West Texas Inc$50010%
Turning Point Counseling Inc$50010%
Phoenix Center$50010%
Senior Life Midland Inc$45020%
Mission of Mercy Inc$40010%
Midland Memorial Foundation$3003n/a
High Sky Childrens Ranch Inc$30020%
Pink the Basin Inc$30020%
Reins-N-Hands Inc$2501n/a
Camp of the Hills$22510%
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc$20010%
Meals on Wheels$10010%
Nantz Family Foundation$10010%
Redeemer Church of Midland$1001n/a
St Lukes United Methodist Church$1001n/a
Hsbr Associate Relief Fund$1001n/a
South Plains Food Bank Inc$10010%
Happy Hill Farm Childrens Home Inc$10010%
Northern Texas Pga Foundation$10010%
Redirectional Outreach Program Efforts for Youth$1001n/a
Hillcrest School Inc$10010%
Carilion Clinic Foundation$10010%
Arts Council of Midland$10010%
Texas Tech Law School Foundation$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($177k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCitizens News Guild Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetManor Park Inc: $3,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMidland Christian School: $1,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBynum School: $1,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Junior League of Fort Worth Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHill Country 100 Club Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Junior League of Midland Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWest Texas Food Bank: $950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom Center Texas: $950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAphasia Center of West Texas Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTurning Point Counseling Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSenior Life Midland Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMission of Mercy Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Sky Childrens Ranch Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPink the Basin Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp of the Hills: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNantz Family Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSouth Plains Food Bank Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHappy Hill Farm Childrens Home Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Texas Pga Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillcrest School Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarilion Clinic Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArts Council of Midland: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Pevehouse Family FoundationTX30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pevehouse Family Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Beal Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Chaparral Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation · James a Buddy Davidson Charitable Foundation · The Henry Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati?

Find your warmest path to Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati

How much does Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati give?
Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati reported 26 grants totaling $22,620 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (65%), Human Services (8%), Public Benefit (7%).
Who are Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Citizens News Guild Inc ($4k), Manor Park Inc ($4k), Midland Christian School ($1k).
Does Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pevehouse Family Foundation, Warren Charitable Foundation, Abell-Hanger Foundation.
Where is Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati based?
Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati 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 93 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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