· Private foundation
The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAV-A-LIFE INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
| WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATES | $10,000 |
| BIBLE LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| FCA | $10,000 |
| MAGIC CITY HARVEST | $10,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE WORLD | $10,000 |
| NO KID HUNGRY | $10,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT | $10,000 |
| FEED THE CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN AID MISSION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| FEED THE HUNGRY | $10,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| BREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA | $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 (FY20–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +53% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 8 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- QCQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +170%
- LGLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +147%
- MCMAGIC CITY HARVEST INC4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- CKCommunity Kitchens of Birminghamone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -17%
- UWUNITED WAY MEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $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.
collect warehouse & distribute food to needy organizations
The food bank operates as a clearing house for the collecting, sorting, storing and distribution of edible food to qualified agencies; who in turn pass the food along to alabama's "food insecure" citizens.
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
To end hunger by assisting food bank networks in obtaining more food and funds, fostering public awareness of the food banks' mission, and creating partnerships to alleviate hunger in alabama.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Bible Society. 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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 14% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 100 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 Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds MAGIC CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds Bread For The World Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BUT GOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SELMA AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BRYAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Mission Outreach United Appeal Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Community Kitchens of Birmingham ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Dunn-French Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Pete M Hanna Charitable Foundation · The Hackney Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust
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 Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo 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 World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.
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