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Thaler Howell Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$340k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
91%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$34,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$6.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 91% of the organizations Thaler Howell Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $269k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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
FY2024still arriving10$340k80%
FY202311$270k91%
FY20227$664k29%
FY20215$665k0%
FY20205$90k0%
FY201911$642k18%
FY201811$471k55%
FY201717$241kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.1MArts & Culture$539kEnvironment$427kHealth$80kPhilanthropy$68kFood & Nutrition$59kAnimals$52kHuman Services$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
CA
VA
AZ
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ithaca College$1,750,00040%
The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc$313,25063%
Tompkins County Public Library$250,0004n/a
Finger Lakes Reuse Inc$170,00043%
Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc$59,25025%
Ithaca Health Alliance Inc$59,25028%
The History Center in Tompkins County Inc$50,000112%
Mercy for Animals Inc$35,00010%
Ladder to the Moon Network$35,00019%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$34,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($287k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thaler Howell Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIthaca College: $1,750,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc: $313,250 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetFinger Lakes Reuse Inc: $170,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetLoaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc: $59,250 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetIthaca Health Alliance Inc: $59,250 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetThe History Center in Tompkins County Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMercy for Animals Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLadder to the Moon Network: $35,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $34,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Environmental Law Center: $34,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoyal River Conservation Trust: $34,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSouth River Watershed Alliance: $34,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $34,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEarthjustice: $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $26,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIthaca Public Education Initiative Inc: $26,250 over 1y, 11% of budgetSustainable Finger Lakes Inc: $26,250 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetUnited Way of Tompkins County Inc: $26,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNorton Museum of Art Inc: $15,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaltz Jupiter Theatre Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for the Arts at Ithaca Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc: $500 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 26.

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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.

Community Foundation of Tompkins County IncNY22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Park Foundation Inc · Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc · John Edward Lovenheim and Barbara Pitlick Lovenheim Charitable Trust · Triad Foundation Inc · City Federation of Women's Organizations Inc · Norathco Foundation · Brooks Family Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Thaler Howell Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Thaler Howell Foundation Inc 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 Thaler Howell Foundation Inc

How much does Thaler Howell Foundation Inc give?
Thaler Howell Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $340,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Thaler Howell Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (61%), Arts & Culture (16%), Environment (13%).
Who are Thaler Howell Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ithaca College ($1.8M), The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc ($313k), Tompkins County Public Library ($250k).
Does Thaler Howell Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 91% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thaler Howell Foundation Inc 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 Thaler Howell Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc, Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County, Park Foundation Inc.
Where is Thaler Howell Foundation Inc based?
Thaler Howell Foundation Inc is based in ME.

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 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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