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The Thompson Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Human Services$4.8MHealth$1.3MEducation$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.0MFood & Nutrition$902kArts & Culture$498kReligion$401kPhilanthropy$279kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $470k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
$15,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN$175,200
MICHIGAN TECH FUND$175,000
STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC$125,000
TURNING POINT INC$115,000
CS MOTT ANNUAL FUND$100,000
LASALLIAN FUND DE LA SALLE COLLEGIATE$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $73k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $15k → 11%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $50k → 10%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $30k → 21%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $35k → 10%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $30k → 21%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $35k → 10%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $30k → 21%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $200 → 7%MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $35k → 10%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $25k → 21%MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $33k → 10%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $25k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $25k → 21%MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $33k → 10%INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $3k → 10%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $125k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $90k → 21%INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $3k → 10%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $90k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $90k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $55k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $254k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $200k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $175k → 21%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $13k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $147k → 21%INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $3k → 10%INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $3k → 10%INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $3k → 10%INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $3k → 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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
KY
VA
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 60 repeat orgs$346k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
20

Total granted

$11M
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+7%

Still filing today

53%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $294k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $777k · revenue +8%
  • SF
    STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $650k · revenue +22%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $645k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • PV
    PROMISE VILLAGE HOME FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • MC
    MACOMB COUNTY EMERGENCY SHELFTER TEAM
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • OC
    OXFORD COMMUNITY MEMORIAL AND VICTIMS FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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2
Trinity Health - Michigan

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.

Health
3
Detroit Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
5
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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6
Mymichigan Health Foundation

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…

Health
7
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
8
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
9
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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10
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
11
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

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…

Health
12
Delta Dental Fund

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
36/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN: $888,170 · OtherCROSSROADS OF MICHIGANVISTA MARIA: $606,000 · OtherVISTA MARIAGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $505,000 · OtherGRACE CENTERS OF HOPECS MOTT ANNUAL FUND: $495,000 · OtherCS MOTT ANNUAL FUNDSALVATION ARMY: $465,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCOVENANT HOUSE: $421,000 · OtherCOVENANT HOUSEKENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCH: $359,000 · OtherKENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCHCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN: $286,000 · OtherLASALLIAN FUND DE LA SALLE COLLEGIATE: $271,300 · OtherFAMILIES AGAINST NARCOTICS: $262,900 · Other+55 more: $1,642,667 · Other+55 moreCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $776,630 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGANSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $650,000 · Human ServicesSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES I…TURNING POINT INC: $645,000 · Human ServicesTURNING POINT INCMACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $307,500 · Human ServicesMACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH V…POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $165,000 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CENTER+2 more: $28,800 · Human ServicesLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $450,000 · EducationMichigan Tech Fund: $175,000 · Education+3 more: $3,100 · EducationDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $330,000 · HealthPenrickton Center for Blind Children: $165,000 · HealthFACE ADDICTION NOW WASHTENAW COUNTY CHAPTER: $83,000 · Health+9 more: $34,500 · HealthFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $595,000 · Food & NutritionVETS RETURNING HOME INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $22,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $199,000 · International
Other$6,202,037Human Services$2,572,930Education$628,100Health$612,500Food & Nutrition$595,000Philanthropy$272,000International$199,000

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 budgetCROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN: $888,170 over 6y, 14% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $776,630 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $650,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTURNING POINT INC: $645,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetVISTA MARIA: $606,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $595,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $505,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $450,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $330,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $307,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetVETS RETURNING HOME INC: $250,000 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $199,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Tech Fund: $175,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetPenrickton Center for Blind Children: $165,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $165,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $96,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $71,260 over 3y, 15% of budgetHumble Design Inc: $56,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $45,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $39,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetHospice of Michigan Inc: $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $22,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREADING WORKS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $4,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwood University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharity Navigator: $800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC: $780 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH BEND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT CAMP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORAL CANCER FOUNDATION HILL: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDCARE: $250 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.

  • 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 Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
  • Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 …DTE Energy FoundationThe Barton Malow Foun…United Way for Southe…Canton Community Foun…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Ford PhilanthropyThe Carls FoundationChildren's Hospital o…Consumers Energy Foun…Charles Stewart Mott …The Kresge Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI28.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Thompson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thompson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • Community Workshops Inc: 39% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 93 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home