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The Thomas Heritage Foundation

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.

$450k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.2MInternational$1.0MReligion$165kHuman Services$143kHousing & Shelter$106kYouth Development$47kPhilanthropy$36kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $349k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNDERMAIN THEATRE$90,000
CARA MIA THEATRE CO$89,000
SEED EFFECT$70,000
EXILE INTERNATIONAL$50,000
INTL JUSTICE MISSION$50,000
FLAME FOUNDATION$28,000
SCARLET HOPE INC$25,000
SINAPIS$25,000
YENA$18,000
ALL ACCESS INTERNATIONAL$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%SCARLET HOPE INC: $25k → 15%OURCALLING: $50k → 14%OURCALLING: $30k → 14%OURCALLING: $26k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $20k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $12k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $12k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $12k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $12k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $12k → 14%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
NY
MA
CO
KY
TN
DC
TX
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.
$2.7M · 18 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
5

Total granted

$2.7M
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-1%

Still filing today

78%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CM
    CARA MIA THEATRE CO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $556k · revenue +68%
  • SE
    SEED EFFECT
    7× · 2018–2024 · $385k · revenue +254%
  • EI
    EXILE INTERNATIONAL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $260k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • OC
    OPERATION CARE INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -1%
  • AT
    A Time to Revive
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -20%
  • ED
    EPIPHANY DANCE ARTS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
2
Redeem International

Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.

International
3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Impact Latin America

Impact Latin America (IMPACT) envisions God's peace planted in individuals, homes, and communities. We do this by engaging partners to equip Latin American leaders to foster a movement that multiplies disciples, leaders, and churches.

Religion
5
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
6
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
7
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
8
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
9
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
10
A Jesus Mission

A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.

Religion
11
Upaya Social Ventures

Upaya Social Ventures' mission is to create dignified jobs for people living in extreme poverty by building scalable businesses with investment and consulting support.

International
12
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ourcalling Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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

21 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. 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARA MIA THEATRE CO: $556,000 · Arts & CultureCARA MIA THEATRE COUNDERMAIN THEATRE: $545,000 · Arts & CultureUNDERMAIN THEATRETHE FLAME FOUNDATION: $48,000 · Arts & CultureSEED EFFECT: $385,000 · InternationalSEED EFFECTEXILE INTERNATIONAL INC: $260,000 · InternationalEXILE INTERNATIONAL INCINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $222,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSIONOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $73,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC+3 more: $46,000 · InternationalOURCALLING INC: $106,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLIN…CITYSQUARE: $78,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUAR…OPERATION CARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION…SCARLET HOPE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSCARLET H…SINAPIS: $75,000 · OtherESPERANZA MINISTRIES: $40,000 · OtherYENA: $36,000 · OtherBILL GLASS BEHIND THE WALLS: $17,500 · OtherEPIPHANY DANCE ARTS: $10,000 · OtherEast-West Ministries International: $110,000 · ReligionGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH: $30,000 · ReligionA Time to Revive: $25,000 · ReligionCHAMPION MINISTRIES INC: $45,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$1,149,000International$986,000Human Services$234,000Other$178,500Religion$165,000Youth Development$46,500Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetCARA MIA THEATRE CO: $556,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetUNDERMAIN THEATRE: $545,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetSEED EFFECT: $385,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetEXILE INTERNATIONAL INC: $260,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $222,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $106,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $78,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $73,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLAME FOUNDATION: $48,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCHAMPION MINISTRIES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION CARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSCARLET HOPE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAll Access International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY STREET: $1,500 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.

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.

Communities Foundatio…Christian Community F…The Dallas FoundationThe Community Foundat…Embrey Family Foundat…Prairie Creek Partner…Servant FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Natl Christian Charit…Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX23.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Embrey Family Foundation · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · Servant Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Heritage Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas Heritage Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Thomas Heritage Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Thomas Heritage Foundation 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 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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