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Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$652k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
26%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$9,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$110,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 19
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$9.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationHuman ServicesOther
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 arriving21$652k38%
FY202419$583k26%
FY202317$614k12%
FY202218$678k17%
FY202116$551k6%
FY202017$523kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.6MHuman Services$702kHousing & Shelter$289kHealth$227kPublic Benefit$138kCommunity Improvement$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Westchester Country Day School Inc$528,50161%
Thomasville Community Ministry Inc$526,000621%
Woodberry Forest School$325,00060%
City of Thomasville$135,0002n/a
Communities in Schools of Thomasville Nc$110,000416%
Wake Forest University$80,00060%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$73,0002n/a
High Point University$35,00040%
Liberty University Inc$32,00040%
Thomasville Chamber Foundation Inc$25,0001n/a
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All grantees of Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Westchester Country Day School Inc$528,50161%
Thomasville Community Ministry Inc$526,000621%
Woodberry Forest School$325,00060%
City of Thomasville$135,0002n/a
Communities in Schools of Thomasville Nc$110,000416%
Wake Forest University$80,00060%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$73,0002n/a
High Point University$35,00040%
Liberty University Inc$32,00040%
Thomasville Chamber Foundation Inc$25,0001n/a
Johnson & Wales University$18,00020%
Davidson-Davie Community College$17,80021%
Lenoir-Rhyne University$17,00020%
Family Service of the Piedmont Inc$15,00020%
Family Services of Davidson County$15,00021%
Hospice of the Piedmont Inc$14,00060%
Brevard College Corporation$9,00010%
Pfeiffer University$9,00010%
Mid-Atlantic Christian University$9,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWestchester Country Day School Inc: $528,501 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetThomasville Community Ministry Inc: $526,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetWoodberry Forest School: $325,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Thomasville Nc: $110,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetWake Forest University: $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Point University: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLiberty University Inc: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJohnson & Wales University: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson-Davie Community College: $17,800 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLenoir-Rhyne University: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Service of the Piedmont Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Services of Davidson County: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHospice of the Piedmont Inc: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBrevard College Corporation: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPfeiffer University: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Atlantic Christian University: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 16.

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.

Novant Health IncNC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Novant Health Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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About Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation

How much does Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation give?
Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $652,149 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), Human Services (24%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
Who are Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Westchester Country Day School Inc ($529k), Thomasville Community Ministry Inc ($526k), Woodberry Forest School ($325k).
Does Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Novant Health Inc, Reynolds American Foundation, The Cannon Foundation Inc.
Where is Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation based?
Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation is based in MA.

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 36 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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