· Private foundation
Ronald O Thomas Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF BAXTER SPRINGS - ANIMAL SHE | $150,000 |
| SEK HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| OUTSIDE THE WIRE FOUNDATION | $16,450 |
| UMASS-AMHERST-THOMAS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| POINTFORWARD | $6,500 |
| WESLEY HOUSE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| KANSAS SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $2,500 |
| BAXTER SPRINGS PRESBYTERIAN PEO | $2,500 |
| GUARDIANS OF THE CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS | $1,806 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PAPROUD ANIMAL LOVERS SHELTER INC3× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +39%
- ATAT THE TABLE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +19%
- JHJoplin Humane Society Inc2× · 2018–2022 · $6k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- BSBAXTER SPRINGS USD 508one grant, 2017 · $59k
- COCITY OF BAXTER SPRINGS - DOG PARKone grant, 2021 · $40k
- FFFRANKIE'S FRIENDS INCone grant, 2017 · $24k · revenue -19%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
Find homes for homeless cats through adoptions
The spca of pittsylvania county is committed to rescuing adoptable animals from impoundment and euthanasia, so they can be placed in proper homes. this is acheived primarily through vetting, fostering, and placing the animals in their…
The mission of the humane society of jefferson county is to improve the lives of animals in need through compassionate care, adoption, advocacy and education while also inspiring humane communities that foster kindness and respect for all.
Our mission is to provide non-lethal solutions to the homeless, abandoned, and feral animal population of fort smith, arkansas. we will do this through re-unifying animals with their owners, adopting animals to new families, or…
Animal rescue foundation inc (arf) rescues homeless dogs and cats in the tulsa area and helps them find loving homes. we do this by rescuing homelss animals out of area shelters, accepting owner surrendered pets, placing them in foster…
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
Our mission is to engage with the community to encourage responsible pet care, assist with spay/neuter program to prevent overpopulation, reunite lost animals with their owners, and provide humane care while seeking forever homes for…
We strive to provide all aspects of care to abandoned, neglected, and injured animals; reunite lost pets with their caregivers or seek new families for them; educate the community on humane care and interactions with all animals with the…
To help adoptive dogs find a permanent home.
Our organization believes it is our moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of rescued animals and place them in loving permanent homes in st. louis metro.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SEK HUMANE SOCIETY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY KANSAS ↗
- Who funds POINT FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKIE'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROUD ANIMAL LOVERS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds AT THE TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Joplin Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas · Coleman Family Foundation Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Miller Family Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ronald O Thomas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ronald O Thomas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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