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The Thomas Family 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.

$702k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
31%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$442,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 16
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$11M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Thomas Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$702k22%
FY202416$575k31%
FY202316$565k56%
FY20224$550k75%
FY20212$375k50%
FY20203$510kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.6MAnimals$1.1MYouth Development$228kPhilanthropy$60kReligion$60kHuman Services$52kHealth$50kEnvironment$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
K9s for Warriors Inc$980,00052%
Virginia Episcopal School$912,0005n/a
North Florida School of Special Education Inc$165,00041%
Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc$140,00030%
Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc$88,00013%
Cashiers Highlands Humane Society$70,00043%
United Way of Northeast Florida Inc$60,00020%
St Stephen Episcopal Church$60,0003n/a
Lenbrook Square Foundation Inc$37,00020%
World Resources Institute$30,00030%
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of The Thomas Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
K9s for Warriors Inc$980,00052%
Virginia Episcopal School$912,0005n/a
North Florida School of Special Education Inc$165,00041%
Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc$140,00030%
Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc$88,00013%
Cashiers Highlands Humane Society$70,00043%
United Way of Northeast Florida Inc$60,00020%
St Stephen Episcopal Church$60,0003n/a
Lenbrook Square Foundation Inc$37,00020%
World Resources Institute$30,00030%
Glenn Garcelon Foundation$25,00039%
The Salvation Army$15,0002n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$10,00020%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$10,00020%
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc$10,00010%
Im Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc$10,00020%
Cashiers Cares Inc$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($655k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Thomas Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $980,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetNorth Florida School of Special Education Inc: $165,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc: $140,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $88,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCashiers Highlands Humane Society: $70,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetUnited Way of Northeast Florida Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLenbrook Square Foundation Inc: $37,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Resources Institute: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlenn Garcelon Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJacksonville Humane Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIm Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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 Blackbaud Giving FundSC9.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About The Thomas Family Foundation

How much does The Thomas Family Foundation give?
The Thomas Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $702,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Thomas Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Animals (32%), Youth Development (7%).
Who are The Thomas Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: K9s for Warriors Inc ($980k), Virginia Episcopal School ($912k), North Florida School of Special Education Inc ($165k).
Does The Thomas Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Thomas Family Foundation 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 Thomas Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is The Thomas Family Foundation based?
The Thomas Family Foundation is based in GA.

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 25 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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