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The Philip F Thompson Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Philip F Thompson Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$29kRecreation & Sports$13kAnimals$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kPublic Benefit$6kEducation$5kArts & Culture$4kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$202k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CELEBRATE POLAND$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,500
ANGELS FOR ANIMALS$3,300
COLUMBIANA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$2,133
CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN$1,833
VILLAGE OF LISBON FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,000
COLUMBIANA COUNTY PARKS DISTRICT$500
MUSEUM OF CERAMICS$500
GREAT OHIO TO RIVER GREENWAY COALIT$300
BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART$200
BEAVER CREEK WILDLIFE EDUCATION CTR$200
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NORTH COUNTY TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $3k → 17%CELEBRATE POLAND: $5k → 19%NORTH COUNTRY NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL: $1k → 11%THE WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $3k → 17%VILLAGE OF POLAND: $4k → 19%THE NORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%THE WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $2k → 17%VILLAGE OF POLAND: $3k → 19%COLUMBIANA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 16%THE WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $2k → 17%POLAND MUNICIPAL FOREST: $3k → 19%COLUMBIANA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 16%THE WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $1k → 17%VILLAGE OF POLAND: $3k → 19%COLUMBIANA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 16%POLAND MUNICIPAL FOREST: $3k → 19%THE OHIO SCENIC RIVERS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 16%POLAND MUNICIPAL FOREST: $3k → 19%POLAND MUNICIPAL FOREST: $3k → 19%POLAND MUNICIPAL FOREST: $2k → 19%LISBON BASEBALL & SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $3k → 16%POLAND FOREST FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%LISBON BASEBALL & SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $2k → 16%TOWN ONE RANGE ONE: $1k → 19%COLUMBIANA COUNTY PARK DISTRICT: $2k → 16%VILLAGE OF LISBON: $2k → 16%VILLAGE OF LISBON: $2k → 16%THE ARMS FAMILY MUSEUM: $1k → 19%LISBON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%THE ARMS FAMILY MUSEUM: $1k → 19%LISBON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%LISBON POLICE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%RESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY: $1k → 19%VILLAGE OF LISBON FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%VILLAGE OF LISBON: $1k → 16%ANGELS FOR ANIMALS: $3k → 19%LISBON POLICE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%ANGELS FOR ANIMALS: $2k → 19%VILLAGE OF LISBON: $1k → 16%LISBON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN: $2k → 19%LISBON POLICE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN: $2k → 19%LISBON BASEBALL SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $1k → 16%CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN: $1k → 19%LISBON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%HIPPLEY FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Philip F Thompson Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 79%.

The Philip F Thompson Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86k · 17 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
20

Total granted

$86k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
0%

Still filing today

35%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +73%
  • AF
    ANGELS FOR ANIMALS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +103%
  • NC
    NORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
    3× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CC
    COLUMBIANA COUNTY PARK DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • PF
    POLAND FOREST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • TW
    The Way Station
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
West Creek Conservancy

Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…

Environment
2
Lancaster County Conservancy

The mission of the lancaster county conservancy is "providing wild and forested lands and clean waterways for our community forever". the charitable purposes of the lancaster county conservancy include preservation of natural lands,…

Environment
3
Montgomery Creek Preserve
Philanthropy
4
Earth Conservancy

Earth conservancy is a nonprofit organization committed to the reclamation and return of over 16,000 acres of former coal company-owned land to the region. it collaborates with local communities, government agencies, education…

Environment
5
New River Land Trust

To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.

Environment
6
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
7
Heartlands Conservancy

The mission of heartlands conservancy is to empower and colaborate with the people of southern illinois to advance and protect the health of our distinctive communities and nationally significant natural and cultural resources.

Environment
8
Cardinal Land Conservancy

To benefit the general public by preserving natural lands and significant habitats, lands suitable for the production of food, timber, or other cultivated or natural products, lands creating scenic vistas for public enjoyment, lands with…

Environment
9
Athens Conservancy

Athens conservancy works locally to preserve land and promote healthy, resilient ecosystems. these efforts safeguard water quality, support native biodiversity, and protect mature forests, which are crit

Environment
10
International Center for the Preservation of Wild Animals Inc

The wilds is a conservation center and safari park operating as a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization on nearly 10,000-acres in southeastern ohio. the wilds specializes in high-quality recreational opportunities that focus on connecting…

Animals
11
Western Wildlife Corridor Inc

To protect the scenic beauty and natural resources of the Ohio River Valley through direct land protection and through the promotion of responsible land use.

Environment
12
Lackawanna Valley Conservancy

The conservancy is organized to protect, preserve and acquire natural resources in the lackawanna valley for the benefit of the general public.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Mkc; the most unlike its peers is Hippley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $13,422 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,298 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLISBON BASEBALL & SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $5,800 · OtherLISBON BASEBALL & SOFTBALL ASSOCIATIONCITY OF YOUNGSTOWN: $5,583 · OtherCITY OF YOUNGSTOWNCELEBRATE POLAND INC: $5,000 · OtherCELEBRATE POLAND INCIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLUMBIANA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,633 · OtherCOLUMBIANA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYLISBON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $4,550 · OtherLISBON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTIndividual grant recipient: $3,250 · Other+26 more: $20,948 · Other+26 moreWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $11,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESERV…AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN PRAIR…COLUMBIANA RESTORATION AND BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE: $1,000 · EnvironmentCOLUMBIANA RES…ANGELS FOR ANIMALS INC: $5,300 · AnimalsHIPPLEY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyRESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR: $1,000 · Community ImprovementSOPHIA WOMEN'S CENTER: $500 · Health
Other$84,984Environment$14,000Animals$5,300Philanthropy$2,000Housing & Shelter$1,000Community Improvement$1,000Health$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS FOR ANIMALS INC: $5,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIPPLEY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetThe Way Station: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIANA RESTORATION AND BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOPHIA WOMEN'S CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT MKC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HIPPLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Way Station ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIANA RESTORATION AND BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR ↗
  • Who funds SOPHIA WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT MKC ↗

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.

Premier Bank Foundati…Community Foundation …E M Barr Tw Charitabl…Youngstown Fdn GeneralJohn F & Loretta Hyne…Farmers Charitable Fo…The Raymond John Wean…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Premier Bank FoundationOH21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Premier Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · E M Barr Tw Charitable Trust · Youngstown Fdn General · John F & Loretta Hynes Fdn · Farmers Charitable Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Philip F Thompson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Philip F Thompson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s 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)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Philip F Thompson Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Philip F Thompson Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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