· Private foundation
The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| THE BRODY JEWISH CENTER HILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $75,000 |
| BARNES FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $16,100 |
| NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $15,000 |
| WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC | $15,000 |
| HIAS INC | $15,000 |
| PALAZZO STROZZI FOUNDATION USA | $15,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC | $10,000 |
| PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +52% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- AEAMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +59%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $404k · revenue +102%- TBTHE BARNES FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- ACABRAMSON CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFEone grant, 2018 · $25k
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +25%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
86 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. 86 of the 107 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 AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABRAMSON SENIOR CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA CITIZEN EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Caplin Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
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 John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable 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.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Team River Runner Incorporated — 19% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- American Whitewater — 5% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
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.