How much does The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo give?

The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo reported 25 grants totaling $250,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 55 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (31%), Religion (16%), Health (13%).

Who are The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation ($50k), Lesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc ($40k), Magic City Harvest Inc ($40k).

Does The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo 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 Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.

Where is The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo based?

The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo is based in AL.

The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo

The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo at a glance

· 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.

$250k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$391kReligion$206kHealth$161kInternational$149kHuman Services$100kHousing & Shelter$55kPhilanthropy$20kArts & Culture$20kOther$0

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FOOD FOR THE POOR	$10,000
COMMISSION INTERNATIONAL	$10,000
A THOUSAND HILLS	$10,000
FEED THE HUNGRY	$10,000
FEEDING AMERICA	$10,000
BIBLE LEAGUE	$10,000
UNTO	$10,000
WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATES	$10,000
BREAD FOR THE WORLD	$10,000
NO KID HUNGRY	$10,000
BREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA	$10,000
DAY 1	$10,000
CHILDRENS HUNGER RELEIF FUND	$10,000
CHRISTIAN AID MISSION	$10,000
FCA	$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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$857k · 46 repeat orgs$418k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$857k

$338k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+39%

Still filing today

61%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionReligionOther

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

QC
Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation
2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +170%
LG
LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +66%
MC
MAGIC CITY HARVEST INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +66%

Funded once

PH
PROJECT HOPE
one grant, 2022 · $10k
RM
RED MOUNTIAN THEATRE
one grant, 2021 · $10k
UW
UNITED WAY MEALS ON WHEELS
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

Food Bank of North Alabama Inc

collect warehouse & distribute food to needy organizations

Food & Nutrition

Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition

Community Food Bank of Central Alabama

To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.

Food & Nutrition

Feed the Hunger Inc

Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.

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United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

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.

Human Services

Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition

Feeding Alabama

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.

Food & Nutrition

Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement

The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition

Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)

49/49

Grantees still filing

37/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$679,600International$160,000Human Services$140,000Food & Nutrition$120,000Philanthropy$108,000Health$41,000Religion$26,000

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.

The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL46× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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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