· Private foundation
The Cathy and Dwight Thompson 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES | $30,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| EL BUEN SAMARITANO | $15,000 |
| PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC | $15,000 |
| SAFE ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS | $15,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS TEXAS | $7,500 |
| YWCA OF LUBBOCK | $7,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY LUBBOCK | $7,500 |
| CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY | $7,500 |
| KINDERFROGS SCHOOL AT TCU | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
Central Texas Food Bank Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +12%- FCFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +99%
- PCPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- FCFREEDOM CENTER TEXASone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -9%
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.
To promote and develop local court-appointed special advocates programs throughout texas.
The purpose of the texas chapter of the american college of cardiology is to contribute to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, to ensure optimal quality of care for individuals with such diseases, and to foster the highest…
The family abuse center exists to eliminate domestic violence in central texas by sheltering victims of domestic violence and by preventing abuse from occurring through intervention and education.
Children's advocacy centers of texas, inc. (cactx) is the statewide organization for its 70 children's advocacy centers (cac's) across texas. cactx leads efforts, in partnership with investigatory and prosecution agencies, to pursue…
Texas council on family violence is the only 501(c)3 nonprofit coalition in texas dedicated solely to creating safer communities and freedom from family violence. with a statewide reach and direct local impact, tcfv, with the collective…
Established in 1965, community action, inc. of central texas has continuously worked to assist low to moderate income families in central texas by providing a variety of social services and economic opportunities. the agency has four areas…
Preserve access to quality healthcare for all texans
The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
To promote and protect the best interest of children who have been abused or neglected by empowering volunteers to advocate for their safety, well-being, and for opportunities to thrive.
Provide quality primary and preventataive health care services to those in need.
To advance children's health and well-being by advocating for policies and funding that promote children's access to high-quality, comprehensive health care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Center Texas and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 23 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 Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM CENTER TEXAS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
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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 The Cathy and Dwight Thompson 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.
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.