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.

The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation

The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation

Q: 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%).

Q: 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).

Q: 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.

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% 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

02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $81k
$10k–50k12 grants · $181k
$50k–250k3 grants · $250k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY	$100,000
BARNES FOUNDATION	$75,000
THE BRODY JEWISH CENTER HILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	$75,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC	$25,000
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART	$25,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION	$16,100
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC	$15,000
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC	$15,000
PALAZZO STROZZI FOUNDATION USA	$15,000
HIAS INC	$15,000
WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC	$15,000
PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL	$10,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC	$10,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER	$10,000
MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.8M · 63 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.8M

$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+24%

Still filing today

84%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthInternationalCivil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

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AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY
8× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +59%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $404k · revenue +102%
TB
THE BARNES FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +47%

Funded once

AC
ABRAMSON CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE
one grant, 2018 · $25k
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +25%
LL
LIVE LIKE BLAINE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -15%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal

American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech

American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit

Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; 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.

04the grantee network

86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

84/86

Grantees still filing

62/86

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$918,100Arts & Culture$787,100Other$763,915Civil Rights$564,100International$472,900Education$286,200Human Services$258,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John M and Joan F Thalheimer Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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