· Private foundation
The Thomson Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREASTCANCERORG | $15,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY DOWN SYNDROME | $5,000 |
| TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| PAOLI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BBREASTCANCERORG9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +206%
- PMPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $106k · revenue +13%
- TUTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- PCPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -1%
- PWPHOENIXVILLE WOMENS OUTREACHone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -24%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
The organization's purpose is to provide emotional and financial support to local patients and their families whose lives have been burdened by cancer.
Phan is pennsylvania's only statewide consumer-driven organization working to expand and protect access to high-quality, equitable healthcare for all pennsylvanians.
Philadelphia veterans comfort house was established to give homeless veterans a chance to start over and become productive members of society while providing the foundation on which veterans can begin to rebuild and maintain a support for…
Guided by christian values, the mission of the philadelphia protestant home is to provide a caring senior living community that affords its residents the opportunity to achieve their highest possible quality of life.
Penn medicine-pma is organized and operated to improve the quality and efficiency of health care by providing charitable primary, as well as specialty, health care services to the community.
To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BREASTCANCERORG ↗
- Who funds PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIXVILLE WOMENS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds BETHANY CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds HARNESS HORSE YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE JOY OF SOX ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Thomson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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