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The Thomas Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$442k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $442k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$442,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA$50,000
SEWANEE THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH$50,000
NORTH FLORIDA SCHOOL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION$30,000
K9S FOR WARRIORS$25,000
LENBROOK SQUARE FOUNDATION$25,000
GLENN GARCELON FOUNDATION$10,000
WORLD RESOURCE INSTITUTE$10,000
CASHIERS-HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ST STEPHEN EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,000
GATEWAY INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LENBROOK SQUARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%LENBROOK SQUARE FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%CASHIERS CARES: $100 → 18%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

IL
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 18 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
3

Total granted

$3.2M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
0%

Still filing today

61%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $980k · revenue +19%
  • NF
    NORTH FLORIDA SCHOOL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $165k · revenue +20%
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc
    3× · 2022–2025 · $140k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • BG
    Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $88k · revenue 0%
  • JH
    JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • A
    ASPCA
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
2
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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3
Suncoast Humane Societyinc

Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…

Animals
4
Miami Children's Health System Inc

Nicklaus Children's Health System is the region's only healthcare system exclusively for children. Our mission is to inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child. TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, OR TO…

Health
5
Flagler Humane Society Inc

We transform the lives of animals with compassionate care and services, outstanding educational programs, and advocacy for all animals.

Animals
6
Leesburg Regional Medical Center Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Humane Society of Manatee County

The humane society of manatee county leads the community in fostering compassion and respect for animals through quality care, education, and advocacy to improve the lives of animals and strengthen the human-animal bond.

Animals
9
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
10
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…

Health
11
Humane Society of Greater Miami-Dade for Pocta Aap

Matching furry friends with their purr-fect homes & offering affordable spay/neuter.

Animals
12
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northeast Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jacksonville Humane Society Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 25 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $912,000 · OtherVIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOLSEWANEE THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $500,000 · OtherSEWANEE THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHNORTH FLORIDA SCHOOL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION INC: $165,000 · OtherNORTH FLORIDA SCHOOL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION INC+11 more: $270,000 · Other+11 moreK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $980,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INCCASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $70,000 · AnimalsCASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY+1 more: $10,000 · AnimalsBoys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc: $140,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $88,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $60,000 · PhilanthropyGLENN GARCELON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthLENBROOK SQUARE FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human Services
Other$1,847,000Animals$1,060,000Youth Development$140,000Education$88,000Philanthropy$60,000Health$45,000Human Services$37,100

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

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
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 Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Thomas Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Im Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc: 23% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–50%
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.

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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