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Thaler Howell Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$34,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mercy for Animals$35,000
Ladder to the Moon Network$35,000
South River Watershed Alliance$34,000
EarthJustice$34,000
Royal River Conservation Trust$34,000
Natural Resources Council of Maine$34,000
Center for Biological Diversity$34,000
Southern Environmental Law Center$34,000
Loaves Fishes of Tompkins County$33,000
Ithaca Health Alliance$33,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EarthJustice: $34k → 10%Mercy for Animals: $35k → 14%Tompkins Cortland Community College: $26k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PB COUNTY: $5k → 11%Southern Environmental Law Center: $34k → 8%Royal River Conservation Trust: $34k → 7%Natural Resources Council of Maine: $34k → 12%MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE: $12k → 11%ITHACA COLLEGE: $500k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COU: $5k → 11%ITHACA COLLEGE: $500k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $10k → 17%ITHACA COLLEGE: $500k → 16%ACWIS: $5k → 17%Palm Beach Sumphony: $55k → 11%ITHACA COLLEGE: $250k → 16%ACWIS: $5k → 17%KRAVIS CENTER FOR PERFORMING: $10k → 11%TOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $100k → 16%KRAVIS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 11%TOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50k → 16%NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 11%FINGER LAKES REUSE INC: $50k → 16%NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 11%TOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50k → 16%NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 11%FINGER LAKES REUSE: $50k → 16%HISTORY CENTER IN TOPKINS COUNTY: $50k → 16%FINGER LAKES REUSE INC: $50k → 16%TOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50k → 16%BALLENISLES CHARITIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%Ithaca Health Alliance: $33k → 16%PALM BEACH SYMPHONY: $100k → 11%Loaves Fishes of Tompkins County: $33k → 16%PALM BEACH SYMPHONY: $55k → 11%United Way of Tompkins County: $26k → 16%PALM BEACH SYMPHONY: $50k → 11%Ithaca Health Alliance: $26k → 16%PALM BEACH SYMPHONY: $50k → 11%Finger Lakes Land Trust: $26k → 16%PALM BEACH SYMPHONY: $50k → 11%Sustainable Finger Lakes: $26k → 16%REHABILITATION CTR FOR CHILD & ADU: $5k → 11%Community Foundation of Tompkins Co: $26k → 16%PALM BEACH SYMPHONY: $5k → 11%Loaves Fishes of Tompkins County: $26k → 16%FINGER LAKES REUSE INC: $20k → 16%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
CA
VA
AZ
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 14 repeat orgs$606k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
23

Total granted

$2.8M
$332k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+50%

Still filing today

50%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $274k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TP
    THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $313k · revenue +164%
  • FL
    FINGER LAKES REUSE INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $170k · revenue +113%
  • LA
    Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $59k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $55k
  • TH
    The History Center in Tompkins County Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +60%
  • TC
    Tompkins Cortland Community College
    one grant, 2023 · $26k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
2
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc

Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…

Environment
3
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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4
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment
5
Westchester Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…

Environment
6
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
7
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment
8
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment
9
Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc

Conservation of lyme's natural, scenic and historic land & water resources.

Environment
10
Fallbrook Land Conservancy

To acquire, protect, and manage open space in perpetuity for the benefit of wildlife and the community.

Environment
11
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment
12
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Arts At Ithaca Inc; the most unlike its peers is South River Watershed Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
16/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ITHACA COLLEGE: $1,750,000 · EducationITHACA COLLEGE+1 more: $26,250 · EducationTOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $250,000 · OtherTOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LI…DREYFUS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUND: $79,265 · OtherDREYFUS SCHOOL OF THE ART…Individual grant recipient: $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…The History Center in Tompkins County Inc: $50,000 · OtherThe History Center in Tom…DREYFUS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $35,100 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $34,000 · OtherTompkins Cortland Community College: $26,250 · OtherCommunity Foundation of Tompkins Co: $26,250 · OtherUNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC: $26,250 · OtherLADDER TO THE MOON NETWORK: $35,000 · OtherSouth River Watershed Alliance: $34,000 · Other+18 more: $96,268 · Other+18 moreTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $313,250 · Arts & CultureTHE PALM BE…NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $15,400 · Arts & CultureMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $13,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFINGER LAKES REUSE INC: $170,000 · EnvironmentFINGER LAK…ROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $34,000 · EnvironmentROYAL RIVE…Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $34,000 · EnvironmentNatural Re…EARTHJUSTICE: $34,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTI…The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $26,250 · EnvironmentThe Finger…SUSTAINABLE FINGER LAKES INC: $26,250 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABL…MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $35,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $34,000 · AnimalsITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $59,250 · HealthRehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc: $5,000 · HealthLoaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc: $59,250 · Food & Nutrition
Education$1,776,250Other$747,383Arts & Culture$346,650Environment$324,500Animals$69,000Health$64,250Food & Nutrition$59,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 …Legacy Foundation of …Park Foundation IncTompkins Charitable G…John Edward Lovenheim…Triad Foundation IncCity Federation of Wo…Norathco FoundationBrooks Family Foundat…Foundation for Jewish…Mutual of America Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thaler Howell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thaler Howell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

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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