· Private foundation
The Thomas Family Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
82% of The Thomas Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Thomas Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 23 organizations, $445k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $293k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $112,000 |
| WOMEN IN DISTRESS | $76,099 |
| HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL | $54,648 |
| LIFE NET FOR FAMILIES | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE | $15,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY | $10,324 |
| ST SABINA CHURCH | $10,000 |
| MARGARET BAKER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BROWARD PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS | $10,000 |
| HOPE SOUTH FLORIDA | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,525 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S FUND FOR GSD RESEARCH INC | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $458k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WIWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $757k · revenue +93%
- JAJACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $198k · revenue +5%
- HCHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $98k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- TSTOCQUEVILLE SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $15k
- OCOBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +66%
- WAWESTMINISTER ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
Childnet's mission is to protect broward and palm beach counties' abused, abandoned and neglected children, to ensure their safety and to promptly provide them with a permanent, loving home.
Pediatric specialty group, inc. (d/b/a nicklaus children's pediatric specialists ("ncps")) is a physician-directed, multi-specialty pediatric group with a regional, national, and international presence in providing pediatric-centric care…
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
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,…
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…
Organization mission: florida's children first is a non-profit, nonpartisan, independent advocacy organization committed to protecting and advancing the rights of children and youth impacted by the child welfare, juvenile justice, and…
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.
Catholic palliative care services, inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of catholic hospice, inc. and under the sponsorship of the archdiocese of miami, provides responsive end-of-life care to patients and families in broward and dade…
To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…
The organization is a non-profit organization and is committed to providing accessible comprehensive high quality primary and preventive care services to all persons with dignity and respect. our focus is on preventive care and health…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding South Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Margaret Baker Foundation Co David Snyder. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 96 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds A SPRING OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR CAMBODIA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BROWARD PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MARGARET BAKER FOUNDATION CO DAVID SNYDER ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES FLORIDAINC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds The Junior Welfare Society ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Broward Inc · The Harry T Mangurian Jr Foundation Inc · The Amaturo Family Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · James & Beatrice Salah Charitable Trust Dtd 08-09-2001 · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Bbx Capital Foundation Inc · Josephine S Leiser Foundation Inc · The William R Watts Fndn Inc · The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Thomas Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of Broward Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Broward Partnership for the Homeless Inc — 5% of income from government
- Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Holy Cross Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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