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The Thompson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEVEN LOAVES | $1,000 |
| THE ARC OF LOUDOUN | $1,000 |
| GREAT MEADOWS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MIDDLEBURG MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| SEVEN LOAVES | $1,000 |
| WINDY HILL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $750 |
| A PLACE TO BE | $750 |
| PIEDMONT HISTORICAL ASSOC | $500 |
| THE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $500 |
| BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION | $500 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $500 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $500 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $100 |
| MIDDLEBURG MUSEUM | $100 |
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 (FY24–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
The mission of the green mountain club is to make the vermont mountains play a larger part in the life of the people by protecting and maintaining the long trail system and fostering, through education, the stewardship of vermont's hiking…
Lula Lake Land Trust is dedicated to the preservation of lands located within the Rock Creek watershed on Lookout Mountain. The mission of Lula Lake Land Trust is to preserve the natural and historic landscapes surrounding Rock Creek and…
To promote permanent conservation of the natural resources and scenic beauty of the mountains and foothills of north georgia through land protection, collaborative partnerships and education.
Virginias United Land Trusts was founded to promote conservation statewide and to coordinate conservation planning and green infrastructure. The Organization offers training and educational programs, like our annual Virginia Land…
Buffalo audubon society leads and inspires western new yorkers to connect with and protect the natural world through bird-focused activities, advocacy and habitat restoration.
Blue ridge prism's mission is to improve the health of our natural world for future generations. we are dedicated to the conservation and stewardship of our shared natural heritage.
To conserve and steward lands and waters of Westmoreland County that harbor ecological, cultural or recreational qualities to offer a healthier and more sustainable future for all.
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
The mission of the willowsford conservancy is to protect our land and promote conservation and sustainable farming so that our community discovers a deeper connection to nature and each other.
Mission - we connect people to plants by inspiring communities to explore and conserve nature.our commitments - organizational sustainability, environmental resiliency, collaboration and gathering, social responsibilityour vision - we are…
The mission of the autism society central virginia (ascv) is to support, empower, & build connections for our local autism community.
The nature foundation at wintergreen exists to encourage the understanding, appreciation and conservation of the natural and cultural resources of the blue ridge mountains of central virginia. the foundation will function as a research and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Meadow Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smile Train Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF LOUDOUN ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds A FARM LESS ORDINARY ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE TO BE ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Dun Foundation · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · McGraw Foundation · Awa Family Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Wise Foundation · Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 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.
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Thompson 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.