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Thomas Dubois Hormel Foundation Inc

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.

$355k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.0MEducation$425kHealth$240kEnvironment$100k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$50,000
WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS$50,000
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC$25,000
HORMEL HISTORIC HOME$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$25,000
THE PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK$25,000
CARNEGIE HALL$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE JAY C HORMEL NATURE CENTER$10,000
YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION$10,000
THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HORMEL HISTORIC HOME INC: $50k → 10%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $50k → 14%WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS: $50k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE HORMEL NATURE CENTER: $50k → 10%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $50k → 14%WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS: $50k → 17%HORMEL HISTORIC HOME: $50k → 10%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $50k → 14%WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS: $50k → 17%HORMEL HISTORIC HOME: $25k → 10%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $50k → 14%WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS: $50k → 17%HORMEL HISTORIC HOME INC: $20k → 10%YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%JUILLIARD SCHOOL FUND: $100k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE JAY C HORMEL NATURE CENTER: $20k → 10%YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%JUILLIARD SCHOOL FUND: $100k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE HORMEL NATURE CENTER: $20k → 10%YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL: $100k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE JAY C HORMEL NATURE CENTER: $10k → 10%YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL: $100k → 17%HORMEL HISTORIC HOME INC: $8k → 10%JUILLIARD SCHOOL FUND: $80k → 17%JUILLIARD SCHOOL FUND: $80k → 17%PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY: $25k → 17%PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY: $25k → 17%THE PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%THE PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%CARNIEGE HALL: $50k → 17%CARNIEGE HALL: $50k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL: $50k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL: $25k → 17%ROSIE'S THEATER KIDS: $50k → 17%ROSIES THEATRE KIDS: $5k → 17%THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%MOUNT SINAI BETH ISRAEL: $10k → 17%MOUNT SINAI BETH ISRAEL: $10k → 17%THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL - LOUIS ARMSTRONG DEPT OF MUSIC THERAPY: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Thomas Dubois Hormel Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Thomas Dubois Hormel Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 13 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -70% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$1.7M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-70%

Still filing today

85%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • JS
    JUILLIARD SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +4%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +30%
  • WI
    WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • PF
    PATH FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -70%
  • TM
    THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL - LOUIS ARMSTRONG DEPT OF MUSIC THERAPY
    one grant, 2024 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
2
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
3
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance

Kaufman music center stimulates appreciation of and participation in music through music performance and education in ways that awaken creativity, advance innovation, and create a sense of wonder among performers, students, teachers, and…

Arts & Culture
4
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Inc

To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.

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5
Bloomingdale School of Music

To provide access to high-quality music education for anyone who seeks it, regardless of economic status, ability level, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.

Arts & Culture
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
The Diller-Quaile School of Music Inc

For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…

Arts & Culture
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement

The mission of third street music school settlement is to provide access to music and dance education to new yorkers of all ages.

Arts & Culture
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUILLIARD SCHOOL FUND: $360,000 · OtherJUILLIARD SCHOOL FUNDHORMEL HISTORIC HOME INC: $153,000 · OtherHORMEL HISTORIC HOME INCIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+1 more: $10,000 · OtherTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $175,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIO…LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASS…YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATIONROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INCTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SO…JUILLIARD SCHOOL: $200,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERUniversity of Miami: $25,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $200,000 · HealthWELLNESS IN TH…BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL ME…THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $10,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE JC HORMEL NATURE CENTER: $100,000 · EnvironmentPATH FUND INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$573,000Arts & Culture$450,000Education$425,000Health$230,000Environment$100,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $200,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $175,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHORMEL HISTORIC HOME INC: $153,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE JC HORMEL NATURE CENTER: $100,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATH FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas Dubois Hormel Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas Dubois Hormel Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Thomas Dubois Hormel Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Thomas Dubois Hormel Foundation Inc 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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