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Thagard 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $196k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $32,000 |
| PERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION-CLARE TOMPSON ELLIS MEMORIAL | $20,000 |
| CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY | $17,750 |
| CASA TERESA | $17,750 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND | $17,500 |
| BREAKING BREAD MINISTRIES OF MIDLAND TX | $11,000 |
| SCOTTISH RITE APHASIA FUND | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MENLO COLLEGE OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT | $10,000 |
| CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BUCKNER OF MIDLAND TEXAS | $10,000 |
| MISSION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF MIDLAND | $10,000 |
| SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $8,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
48 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY7× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +105%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Midland Texas7× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +77%
JUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL6× · 2018–2024 · $63k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- TSTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.
Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…
To educate women to develop their intellect and talents through active participation in a community of scholars, so that as graduates they may contribute to society through public and private lives of leadership, service, integrity and…
Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Chandler's mission is to provide each student with the highest quality and most academically challenging education in a nurturing, balanced and diverse environment. chandler strives to have its students gain a love of learning, a means of…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junipero Serra Catholic High School and the most unlike its peers is Newport Beach Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Midland Texas ↗
- Who funds JUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MENLO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS ↗
- Who funds MARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cancer Research Collaboration Inc ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE-ADULT CENTERS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THINK TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAD CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds BALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · The Cashion Foundation · Nobbs Family Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Pevehouse Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Thagard Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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