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The Thom Family Foundation Inc

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.

$538k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$701kYouth Development$405kInternational$383kHuman Services$304kPublic Safety & Disaster$285kEducation$257kReligion$256kPhilanthropy$246kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $398k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANKATO CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC$50,000
SCHOLA FOUNDATION$40,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA$37,024
MANKATO AREA FOUNDATION$30,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$25,000
CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC$25,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$20,000
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED$20,000
MERCY SHIPS INTERNATIONAL$20,000
THE INDEPENDENCE FUND INC$16,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$15,000
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC$10,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI$10,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AN$10,000
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $6k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $5k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $5k → 10%MANKATO YOUTH PLACE INC: $50k → 15%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $5k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $5k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $5k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $5k → 10%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $5k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 15%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $5k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 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

AK
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 16% of The Thom Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Thom Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.9% 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 46 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
7

Total granted

$2.6M
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-12%

Still filing today

78%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther
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

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $309k · revenue +10%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +46%
  • MS
    Mercy Ships International
    8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +967% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • MY
    MANKATO YOUTH PLACE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -66%
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +40%
  • MA
    MINNESOTA AGRICULTURAL INTERPRETIVE CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -34%
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
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
4
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
5
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
6
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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7
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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8
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services
11
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

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12
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

47 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. 47 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
36/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mankato Area Foundation: $246,000 · OtherMankato Area FoundationCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC: $236,124 · OtherCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INCMercy Ships International: $100,000 · OtherMercy Ships InternationalFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $65,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION - CURE ALZH: $53,000 · OtherMankato Christian Academy: $50,000 · OtherGREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT: $43,500 · Other+20 more: $410,000 · Other+20 moreJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $309,218 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT N…Compassion International Incorporated: $76,000 · InternationalCompassion Internati…HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $52,000 · InternationalHEIFER PROJECT INTER…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $40,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTI…FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $40,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHI…LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $30,000 · International+2 more: $25,000 · InternationalMAYO CLINIC: $120,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $73,000 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH IN…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $70,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S…American Heart Association Inc: $40,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Ass…NAMI National: $40,000 · HealthNAMI NationalALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEAS…Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $30,500 · HealthMinnesota Teen Cha…AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · HealthHouse of Hope Inc: $22,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $21,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $15,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $275,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…MANKATO YOUTH PLACE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMANKATO YOUTH …SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesSHARING AND CA…COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $36,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE…SCHOLA FOUNDATION: $140,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $24,500 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationThe Independence Fund Inc: $89,000 · Public BenefitGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $67,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,271,124International$572,218Health$517,500Human Services$401,000Education$207,000Public Benefit$89,000Philanthropy$67,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $309,218 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $275,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMankato Area Foundation: $246,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetSCHOLA FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $100,000 over 8y, 100% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc: $89,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $73,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $70,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $67,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $65,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $52,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMANKATO YOUTH PLACE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMankato Christian Academy: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT: $43,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $40,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY COMMUNITY HELP ORGANIZATION INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $36,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $30,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $30,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $26,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $24,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Hope Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SO CENT MN INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA AGRICULTURAL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTWIN VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $2,500 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 JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Mankato Area Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
  • Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MANKATO YOUTH PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Mankato Christian Academy ↗
  • Who funds GREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NAMI National ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY COMMUNITY HELP ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds House of Hope Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗

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.

Mankato Area Foundati…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mayo Clinic Group Ret…Otto Bremer TrustL & N Andreas Foundat…The Minneapolis Found…Xcel Energy FoundationValley News FoundationMardag FoundationThe Taylor FoundationWynn and Ginnette Kea…Glen a Taylor Foundat…
Mankato Area FoundationMN22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mankato Area Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Otto Bremer Trust · L & N Andreas Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Valley News Foundation · Mardag Foundation · The Taylor Foundation · Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation · Glen a Taylor 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 Thom Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thom Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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Find your warmest path to The Thom Family Foundation Inc 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 59 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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