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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.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$158kArts & Culture$90kPhilanthropy$66kYouth Development$62kHuman Services$29kScience & Tech$11kPublic Benefit$9kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIRLS INC$12,000
Individual grant recipient$3,500
NEUROTALENT WORKS$2,750
SALVATION ARMY$1,250
BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA$1,250
USO$1,250
INTERNATIONAL ESSENTIAL TREMOR FOUNDATION$1,250
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$1,000
UTSALADY LADIES AID$1,000
CAMANO ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION$500
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$500
KQED$250
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$200
KAZU$150
PROPUBLICA$100
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 (FY18–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $8k → 14%MIRA FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%FAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED: $1k → 7%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 11%NEUROTALENT WORKS: $3k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%MIRA FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $300 → 14%MIRA FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%MIRA FOUNDATION USA: $1k → 10%MIRA FOUNDATION USA: $500 → 10%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

WA
IL
NY
OR
OH
PA
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
NC
SC
DC
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$252k · 29 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
30

Total granted

$252k
$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+4%

Still filing today

72%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthOther
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

  • Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
    3× · 2017–2022 · $72k · revenue +17%
  • GI
    GIRLS INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +44%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE
    one grant, 2017 · $110k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • AM
    ACCESS MONTEREY PENINSULA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -9%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
3
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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4
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
5
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
6
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
7
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
8
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
9
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
10
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
11
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
12
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center; the most unlike its peers is International Essential Tremor Foundation. 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

45 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. 45 of the 64 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
26/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE: $110,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKEIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $11,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSALVATION ARMY: $8,250 · OtherTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC - MONTICELLO: $7,000 · OtherUTSALADY LADIES AID: $7,000 · Other+35 more: $37,920 · Other+35 moreColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $72,000 · Arts & CultureColonial Williamsburg…GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION: $7,250 · Arts & CultureGETTYSBURG FOUNDATIONACCESS MONTEREY PENINSULA INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureACCESS MONTEREY PENIN…+2 more: $2,350 · Arts & CultureGIRLS INC: $52,950 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCWOMEN HELPING YOUTH: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentWOMEN HELPING YO…THE PAINTED TURTLE: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PAINTED TURT…+1 more: $1,750 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $39,050 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUN…GREATER WILLIAMSBURG COMMUNITY TRUST: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WILLIA…+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropySTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY: $1,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000 · Education+2 more: $900 · EducationWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,800 · Human ServicesMira Foundation USA Inc: $5,500 · Human ServicesNEUROTALENT WORKS INC: $2,750 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED FUND INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $8,000 · Science & Tech
Other$206,670Arts & Culture$88,600Youth Development$71,200Philanthropy$59,550Education$23,100Human Services$20,050Science & Tech$8,000

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 budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $72,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC: $52,950 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $39,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WILLIAMSBURG COMMUNITY TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN HELPING YOUTH: $12,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG FOUNDATION: $7,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS MONTEREY PENINSULA INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMira Foundation USA Inc: $5,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Essential Tremor Foundation: $3,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEUROTALENT WORKS INC: $2,750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCAMANO ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION: $2,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTANWOOD-CAMANO FOOD BANK SERVICES: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKQED INC: $2,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HARBOR FREE CLINIC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY: $1,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORCA CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStanwood-Camano Area Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTANWOOD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAction Council of Monterey County Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSNO-ISLE LIBRARIES FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF HONOR INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommercial Real Estate Women Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $100 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Floyd & Delores Jones…Leland J & Dorothy H …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Shell USA Company Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
Community Foundation of Snohomish CountyWA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Floyd & Delores Jones Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 64 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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