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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.

$512k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2024
45
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 52
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
15
Total assets, FY2024
$10M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHealthEnvironmentEducationOther
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 arriving39$504k18%
FY202345$589k13%
FY202245$635k11%
FY202152$517k19%
FY202044$580k23%
FY201945$534k27%
FY201846$426k59%
FY201727$215kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$979kArts & Culture$774kCivil Rights$690kInternational$383kEducation$326kHuman Services$251kReligion$244kCrime & Legal$150kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 85 grantees
All grantees of The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Epilepsy Society$424,50081%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$404,10080%
The Barnes Foundation$385,00080%
Philadelphia Museum of Art$200,00050%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$183,50070%
Hias Inc$173,00080%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$171,75080%
Abington Health Foundation$150,00060%
American Heart Association Inc$132,50060%
Mitzvah Circle Foundation$110,00071%
Abramson Senior Care Foundation$100,0002n/a
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$92,50080%
National Partnership for Women and Families$74,50070%
National Women's Law Center$73,00060%
Human Rights Watch Inc$68,90080%
The University of Virginia Medical School Foundation$65,00021%
Smithsonian Institution$55,00080%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$46,00050%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$45,00060%
Immigrant Legal Resource Center$43,00050%
Center for American Progress$42,50050%
Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School$40,00060%
National Public Radio Inc$37,50070%
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence$35,00060%
Birthright Israel Foundation$35,00020%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$33,50070%
Global Healing Foundation Ltd$30,0003n/a
Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation$24,10084%
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services$24,00050%
Seeds of Peace Inc$24,00060%
League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania Citizen Education Fund$22,50072%
National Immigration Law Center$20,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$18,00020%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$18,00030%
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc$16,00030%
Anti-Defamation League$15,00020%
Palazzo Strozzi Foundation USA Inc$15,00019%
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$15,00040%
Philadelphia Orchestra Association$12,50020%
Storycorps Inc$12,00060%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$11,25070%
Southern Environmental Law Center$11,10020%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$11,00030%
Live Like Blaine Foundation$10,00014%
American Whitewater$9,00070%
The Barack Obama Foundation$7,00020%
Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc$6,75030%
Light House Studio Inc$5,10060%
Newseum Inc$5,00020%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$5,00010%
Auto-Immune Hepatitis Association$5,00012%
Breakthrough T1d$5,00010%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation$5,00010%
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc$5,00010%
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge$5,00020%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$4,50020%
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation$4,00010%
Rivanna Conservation Alliance$3,80040%
Esplanade Association Inc$3,50040%
The Trustees of Reservations$3,50030%
Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary Inc$3,05060%
Cure International Inc$3,00010%
PALS Programs$3,00010%
League of Women Voters Education Fund$3,00010%
Grameen Foundation USA$2,50010%
Admirals Cove Foundation Inc$2,50010%
The Colorado College$2,35030%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$2,00010%
Freedom House$2,00010%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$1,50020%
Lawrence Humane Society$1,50010%
Uyghur Human Rights Project$1,50010%
Sierra Club$1,50010%
Burrows Hill Foundation to Fight Friedreich's Ataxia$1,10011%
Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc$1,00010%
United States Catholic Conference$1,0001n/a
Team River Runner Incorporated$60010%
Emergency Food Network$60010%
American Rivers Inc$60010%
Wintergreen Adaptive Sports$6001n/a
The Haven at First and Market Inc$50010%
Lawrence Arts Center Inc$50010%
Art From Ashes Incorporated$50020%
Code Green Campaign$2501n/a
The Springs Rescue Mission$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($351k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Epilepsy Society: $424,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $404,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Barnes Foundation: $385,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $183,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHias Inc: $173,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $171,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAbington Health Foundation: $150,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $132,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMitzvah Circle Foundation: $110,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $92,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNational Partnership for Women and Families: $74,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNational Women's Law Center: $73,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $68,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Virginia Medical School Foundation: $65,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $55,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $46,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetImmigrant Legal Resource Center: $43,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for American Progress: $42,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRaymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School: $40,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNational Public Radio Inc: $37,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGiffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence: $35,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: $33,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetChief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation: $24,100 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSeeds of Peace Inc: $24,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLeague of Women Voters of Pennsylvania Citizen Education Fund: $22,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetNational Immigration Law Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson Foundation Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalazzo Strozzi Foundation USA Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Orchestra Association: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStorycorps Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $11,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Environmental Law Center: $11,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLive Like Blaine Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAmerican Whitewater: $9,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Barack Obama Foundation: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc: $6,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLight House Studio Inc: $5,100 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNewseum Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 80.

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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.

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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 John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation

How much does The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation give?
The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $511,835 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 52 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (24%), Arts & Culture (19%), Civil Rights (17%).
Who are The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Epilepsy Society ($425k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($404k), The Barnes Foundation ($385k).
Does The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation 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 John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, Caplin Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation based?
The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

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 107 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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