Washington · Private foundation
The Jean E Thomson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $85k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Jean E Thomson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $85k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $90k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $85k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $93k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $109k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $119k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $110k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $120k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | $150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Nourish Pierce County | $125,000 | 9 | 0% |
| New Phoebe House | $65,000 | 7 | 2% |
| St Leos Parish | $52,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Mary Bridge Children's Foundation | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| HopeSparks | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Our Saviour's Community Services | $28,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Cancer Research Fund | $27,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Rescue Mission | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trinity Presbyterian Church | $19,000 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | $150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Nourish Pierce County | $125,000 | 9 | 0% |
| New Phoebe House | $65,000 | 7 | 2% |
| St Leos Parish | $52,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Mary Bridge Children's Foundation | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| HopeSparks | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Our Saviour's Community Services | $28,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Cancer Research Fund | $27,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Rescue Mission | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trinity Presbyterian Church | $19,000 | 4 | n/a |
| NW Childrens Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Dwelling Place | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Olive Crest | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Seattle Area Youth for Christ | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Saint Frances Cabrini Charitable Services | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northwest Kidney Centers | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Peace Community Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Crisis Connections | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hearing Speech and Deafness Center Dba Hearing Speech and Deaf Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greentrike | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($261k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jean E Thomson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Bamford Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Oscar T and Olivann Hokold Foundation · LT Murray Family Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Forest Foundation
How this is measured
About The Jean E Thomson Foundation
- How much does The Jean E Thomson Foundation give?
- The Jean E Thomson Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $84,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Jean E Thomson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (41%), Human Services (26%), Food & Nutrition (20%).
- Who are The Jean E Thomson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ($150k), Nourish Pierce County ($125k), New Phoebe House ($65k).
- Does The Jean E Thomson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jean E Thomson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Jean E Thomson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn, Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine.
- Where is The Jean E Thomson Foundation based?
- The Jean E Thomson Foundation is based in WA.
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