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The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas Foundation Inc

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.

$950k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
37
Itemized grants FY2024
28
Organizations funded FY2023
21%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$875k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 28
FY2018 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2024
$21M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving36$875k86%
FY202328$408k21%
FY202222$159k5%
FY202120$38k45%
FY201922$130k55%
FY201816$39kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$534kArts & Culture$337kEducation$315kInternational$222kCivil Rights$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kYouth Development$39kMembership Benefit$22kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($990k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLiteracy Partners Inc: $103,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetChildrens Global Health Fund Inc: $87,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetPbs Foundation: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $78,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBarnard College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry & Psychoanalysis: $43,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetAssociation of Women Psychiatrists: $36,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $21,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Stage and Film Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBrady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Fork Women for Women Fund Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetThe Paley Center for Media: $10,255 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Aid Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Suffolk Waterfront Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWnet: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVisiting Nurse Service of New York: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Coalition Against Censorship Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMeserve-Kunhardt Foundation: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Authors Guild Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Fork Community Theatre Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPeople for the American Way: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dramatists Guild Fund Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Association of University Women Inc: $219 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurtle Bay Association: $50 over 1y, 0.1% 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 31.

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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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN11.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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About The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas Foundation Inc

How much does The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas Foundation Inc give?
The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas Foundation Inc reported 37 itemized grants totaling $875,000, out of $950,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (14%), Arts & Culture (9%), Education (8%).
Who are The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Literacy Partners Inc ($103k), Childrens Global Health Fund Inc ($87k), Pbs Foundation ($80k).
Does The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas 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 The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas Foundation Inc based?
The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 75 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.3M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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