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The Thomas L Pearson and The Pearson Family Members 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.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$900kYouth Development$91kHealth$29kArts & Culture$28kRecreation & Sports$10kReligion$8kPhilanthropy$6kHuman Services$3k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAG RANCH INC$12,000
MODERN MEN - COACHELLA VALLEY MENS CHORUS$10,000
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER$10,000
PARK CITY PERFORMANCES$2,500
HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$142k · 4 repeat orgs$932k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$142k
$911k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+51%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TR
    TAG RANCH INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $91k · revenue +180%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $23k · revenue -9%
  • PC
    Park City Performances
    3× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • University of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2018 · $900k · revenue +52%
  • TF
    The Frank Phillips Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
  • BD
    BIG D POWERPUFF TACKLING ALZHEIMERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +51%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
2
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
3
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
4
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
5
Albertson Parkinsons Research
Health
6
Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health
7
Accessible Alpine Adventure Tours
Health
8
Neurofit Networks Inc Dba Parkinson Wellness Recovery Pwr

To enhance access to and awareness of research driven exercise that improves quality of life for people with parkinson disease.

9
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc

To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives

Health
10
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
De Gunzburg Myeloma Research Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Ability Center and the most unlike its peers is The Frank Phillips Foundation 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Chicago — $900,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTAG RANCH INC — $91,250 · Youth DevelopmentTAG RANCH…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $23,000 · HealthBIG D POWERPUFF TACKLING ALZHEIMERS INC — $5,000 · HealthPark City Performances — $17,500 · Arts & CultureMODERN MEN COACHELLA VALLEY MEN'S CHORUS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureARLINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherThe Frank Phillips Foundation Inc — $6,250 · OtherNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC — $1,000 · Human Services
Education$900,000Youth Development$91,250Health$28,000Arts & Culture$27,500Other$16,250Recreation & Sports$10,000Human Services$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Chicago — $900,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAG RANCH INC — $91,250 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPark City Performances — $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMODERN MEN COACHELLA VALLEY MEN'S CHORUS — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Frank Phillips Foundation Inc — $6,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Thomas L Pearson and The Pearson Family Members Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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