· Private foundation
Thewes 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LC PASTORAL SERVICES INCORPORATED | $90,000 |
| PINECREST ACADEMY | $65,000 |
| CONSECRATED WOMEN INC | $50,000 |
| SACRED HEART APOSTOLIC SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| EVEREST ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| CRC NA INC | $20,000 |
| ST THOMAS MORE ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| THE DOVE'S NEST INC | $15,000 |
| THE DIVINE MERCY | $12,500 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY | $12,500 |
| RIGHT TO LIFE - LIFESPAN EDUCATION FUND | $12,500 |
| MARY'S MANTLE | $7,500 |
| THE LENNON PREGNANCY CENTER | $5,000 |
| MOTHER AND UNBORN BABY CARE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 36% of its 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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RTRight to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund6× · 2020–2025 · $73k · revenue +44%
- MRMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER2× · 2019–2020 · $42k · revenue +33%
- MAMother and Unborn Baby Care Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $37k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- CWCONSECRATE WOMEN INCone grant, 2021 · $20k
- RTRIGHT TO LIFE-LIFESPAN INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
- SHSACRED HEART MAJOR SEMINARYone grant, 2020 · $10k
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 Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.
Pregnancy resource center (prc) exists to prevent abortions and provide eternal truth through evidence based medical services and the gospel of jesus christ.
To provide natural integrated ob-gyn healthcare, fertilitycare, and pregnancy help services for all women while honoring life.
The Womens Pregnancy Center is a Christ-centered ministry designed to engage and inform women in unplanned pregnancies, empowering them to make life-affirming decisions.
To rescue lives from the destruction of abortion through innovative marketing, strategy, and technology solutions.
To prevent abortion by offering mothers and their families information and services that will empower them to choose life for their child and sexual intergity for themselves.
We are an outreach ministry of jesus christ committed to providing compassionate guidance, education, and help for all involved prior to, during, and following an unplanned pregnancy.
Life Matters Worldwide encourages, equips and strengthens pregnancy care workers so they can continue to provide life-affirming services.
To provide pregnancy testing (including ultrasound examinations), counseling, and referrals as needed (including post-abortion counseling) in our offices and through our 24-hour help-line.
Promoting the sanctity of human life by reaching out with christ's love through our pregnancy resource center, medical clinic, and sexual and relationship educational programs.
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
Vindex media is a non-profit organization whose mission is to be a voice for unborn children. our purpose is to educate and expose culture to the evil of abortion until every person has the right to be born.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 27 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 Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mother and Unborn Baby Care Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY'S MANTLE ↗
- Who funds THE LENNON CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DOVES NEST INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds URBI ET ORBI COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
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: Catholic Foundation of Michigan · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thewes Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thewes Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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