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The Justin Thomas Foundation Inc

The foundation's charitable mission is to positively impact children in need, support junior golf programs, and provide assistance to military families - all with the intent of motivating these talented individuals to achieve their full potential.

$268k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$422kHuman Services$220kFood & Nutrition$86kHealth$50kRecreation & Sports$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$27kInternational$25k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
$25,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC$100,000
DREAM FOUNDATION$65,056
OHOOPEE MATCH FOUNDATION$30,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$25,500
USA CARES$20,000
DOGS HELPING HEROES$12,000
FIRST TEE - PINE MOUNTAIN$9,200
KENTUCKY GOLF FOUNDATION$6,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PLYMOUTH COUNTY FAMILY SUPPORT: $6k → 8%DREAM FOUNDATION: $65k → 14%KENTUCKY RED CROSS: $15k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $43k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $43k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MA
IN
CA
MO
KY
TN
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$521k · 5 repeat orgs$314k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$521k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+50%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TB
    THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $234k · revenue +62%
  • UC
    USA CARES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +201%
  • BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $86k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +78%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +27%
  • TB
    TRANSFORMATIONS BY TUSCALOOSA ANGELSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +50%
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.

1
Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc

The boys & girls clubs of the greater chippewa valley's mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.

Youth Development
2
Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Carolina

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
3
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development
4
Boys and Girls Club of Generational Empowerment

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Health
5
Boys and Girls Clubs of King County

Youth health and social, educational, and character development of youth.

Recreation & Sports
6
Boys & Girls Clubs of Georgia Inc

To promote exclusively the social welfare of boys and girls in georgia; to provide guidance and to promote the health, social, educational, vocational, character, and cultural development of boys(continued on schedule o) and girls in…

Youth Development
7
Boys & Girls Clubs of Bandera County

Enable young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances to realize their full potential as productive, responsible & caring citizens.

Recreation & Sports
8
The Boys and Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast Inc

The boys and girls clubs of the gulf coast, inc is a non-profit corporation formed to promote the health, social, educational, vocational, and character development of all boys and girls throughout the gulf coast area.

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9
Boys & Girls Clubs Foundation Trust

To provide support for the boys & girls clubs, inc. which provides various educational and recreational services to youth.

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10
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and Affiliate

The mission of boys and girls clubs of greater washington is to help boys and girls of all backgrounds, especially those who need us most, build confidence, develop character and acquire the skills needed to become productive,…

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11
Boys & Girls Clubs of the San Gorgonio Pass

To inspire and enable all young people especially those in need to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Education
12
Oprah Winfrey Boys and Girls Club of Kosciusko and Attala County

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Pbc; the most unlike its peers is Plymouth County Family Support 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

16 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $234,360 · OtherTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INCTRANSFORMATIONS BY TUSCALOOSA ANGELS: $13,500 · OtherTHE DREAM FACTORY INC - HEADQUARTERS: $13,000 · OtherBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $85,800 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPAC…DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $65,056 · Human ServicesDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA D…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red …Plymouth County Family Support Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $35,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF …OHOOPEE MATCH CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentOHOOPEE MATCH CLUB FO…USA CARES INC: $135,000 · Housing & ShelterUSA CARES INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 · HealthKENTUCKY GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsTFT INC: $9,200 · Recreation & SportsCONVOY OF HOPE: $25,100 · InternationalDogs Helping Heroes Inc: $12,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$260,860Human Services$171,856Youth Development$165,500Housing & Shelter$135,000Health$50,000Recreation & Sports$39,200International$25,100Public Safety & Disaster$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $234,360 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetUSA CARES INC: $135,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $85,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $65,056 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $35,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetOHOOPEE MATCH CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $25,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY TUSCALOOSA ANGELS: $13,500 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetTHE DREAM FACTORY INC - HEADQUARTERS: $13,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDogs Helping Heroes Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPlymouth County Family Support Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Justin Thomas Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Justin Thomas Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 96%
  • Plymouth County Family Support Inc: 96% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 16 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 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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