· Private foundation
The Thompson Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $470k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN | $175,200 |
| MICHIGAN TECH FUND | $175,000 |
| STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC | $125,000 |
| TURNING POINT INC | $115,000 |
| LASALLIAN FUND DE LA SALLE COLLEGIATE | $100,000 |
| CS MOTT ANNUAL FUND | $100,000 |
| VISTA MARIA | $95,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $90,000 |
| GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE | $85,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $85,000 |
| FACE ADDICTION NOW | $83,000 |
| MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS | $72,500 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $61,000 |
| VETS RETURNING HOME | $50,000 |
| DETROIT RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $294k 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
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN4× · 2021–2024 · $777k · revenue +8%- SFSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $650k · revenue +26%
- TPTURNING POINT INC7× · 2017–2024 · $645k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- PVPROMISE VILLAGE HOME FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2017 · $20k
- MCMACOMB COUNTY EMERGENCY SHELFTER TEAMone grant, 2020 · $10k
- OCOXFORD COMMUNITY MEMORIAL AND VICTIMS FUNDone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
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…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Creating healthy communities - together
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vets Returning Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 93 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 CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS ↗
- Who funds VETS RETURNING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Michigan Tech Fund ↗
- Who funds COVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds FACE ADDICTION NOW WASHTENAW COUNTY CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Humble Design Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
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 for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Canton Community Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Carls Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Kresge 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 Thompson Family 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.
- Community Workshops Inc — 39% 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.