Mississippi · Private foundation
Terry & Judy 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.
- $74k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $88k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Terry & Judy Thomas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $74k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $50k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $48k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $36k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $36k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $30k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $30k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $27k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway Rescue Mission Inc | $30,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $19,700 | 4 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $15,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Compassion Care Clinic Inc | $7,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dancing Rabbit Genealogical Society | $5,000 | 6 | 25% |
| French Camp Academy | $4,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Covenant House New Orleans | $3,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Leake County Foundation | $2,500 | 2 | n/a |
| American Family Association Inc | $2,450 | 4 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway Rescue Mission Inc | $30,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $19,700 | 4 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $15,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Compassion Care Clinic Inc | $7,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dancing Rabbit Genealogical Society | $5,000 | 6 | 25% |
| French Camp Academy | $4,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Covenant House New Orleans | $3,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Leake County Foundation | $2,500 | 2 | n/a |
| American Family Association Inc | $2,450 | 4 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Covenant House | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| Turning Point for God | $750 | 3 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of America | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Midway Baptist Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Rock Campus Outreach | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Mississippi Inc | $33 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Terry & Judy Thomas Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Terry & Judy Thomas Foundation
- How much does Terry & Judy Thomas Foundation give?
- Terry & Judy Thomas Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $73,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Terry & Judy Thomas Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (50%), Housing & Shelter (11%), Health (11%).
- Who are Terry & Judy Thomas Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gateway Rescue Mission Inc ($31k), Samaritan's Purse ($20k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($16k).
- Does Terry & Judy Thomas Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Terry & Judy 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Terry & Judy Thomas Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Terry & Judy Thomas Foundation based?
- Terry & Judy Thomas Foundation is based in MS.
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