New York · Private foundation
The Thompson Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $24M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 143
- Grants FY2025
- 118
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,048,241
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 118
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $534M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Thompson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 142 | $24M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 118 | $17M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 105 | $15M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $18M | 37% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $9.2M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $11M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 112 | $43M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 108 | $32M | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $26,730,000 | 8 | 10% |
| City Harvest Inc | $6,150,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc | $5,000,000 | 1 | 9% |
| America Achieves Inc | $3,625,000 | 3 | 27% |
| Mystic Seaport Museum Inc | $3,350,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $2,984,816 | 5 | n/a |
| City Parks Foundation Inc | $2,732,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Cancer Research Institute Inc | $2,550,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Studio Museum in Harlem | $2,250,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Pierpont Morgan Library | $1,900,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 181 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 87 recipients with no EIN on record ($105M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Thompson Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 169 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Thompson Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Thompson Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Thompson Family Foundation Inc reported 143 grants totaling $24,111,751 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 118 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Thompson Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Health (20%), Philanthropy (18%).
- Who are The Thompson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Park Conservancy Inc ($27M), City Harvest Inc ($6.2M), Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc ($5.0M).
- Does The Thompson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Thompson Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Thompson Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bessemer Giving Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is The Thompson Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Thompson Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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