California · 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.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 78%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 78% of the organizations The Thomson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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 | 3 | $65k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $143k | 78% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $40k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $88k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $83k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $90k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Heritage Foundation | $275,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Texas Public Policy Foundation | $175,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Community Housing Partnership | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ignatian Corporation Saint Ignatius High School | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| No One Left Behind | $10,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Broken & Hopeful Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Media Research Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Crisis Intervention Services Dba Sierra Community House | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| City Church San Francisco a Congregation of Reformed Church In | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.
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 San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Thomson Family Foundation
- How much does The Thomson Family Foundation give?
- The Thomson Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $65,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Thomson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (73%), Religion (6%), Housing & Shelter (6%).
- Who are The Thomson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Heritage Foundation ($275k), Texas Public Policy Foundation ($175k), Community Housing Partnership ($35k).
- Does The Thomson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Thomson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Thomson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is The Thomson Family Foundation based?
- The Thomson Family Foundation is based in CA.
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