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Thomas 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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$132kHuman Services$64kEducation$40kArts & Culture$30kAnimals$25kHousing & Shelter$25kRecreation & Sports$20kYouth Development$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RMHC$10,000
BRENTS PLACE$10,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$10,000
EVERGREEN LEGACY FUND$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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Broomfield Youth Football: $5k → 5%EVERGREEN LEGACY FUND: $10k → 7%BRENTS PLACE: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CANCER: $8k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FO: $5k → 12%MOUNT SAINT VINCENT: $8k → 12%LINCOLN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%National College of Chiro National College of Chiropractic: $5k → 7%Broomfield Youth Football: $5k → 5%BRENTS PLACE: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CANCER: $6k → 10%University of Colorado Foundation: $5k → 12%MOUNT SAINT VINCENT: $6k → 12%LINCOLN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%National College of Chiro National College of Chiropractic: $5k → 7%BROOMFIELD YOUTH FOOTBALL: $5k → 5%UC HEALTH: $5k → 10%University of Colorado Foundation: $5k → 12%MOUNT SAINT VINCENT: $5k → 12%Limon Education Foundation: $5k → 16%NATIONAL COLLEGE OF CHIRO: $5k → 7%BROOMFIELD YOUTH FOOTBALL: $5k → 5%FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FO: $5k → 12%MTN SAINT VINCENTS HOME: $5k → 12%LIMON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%NATIONAL COLLEGE OF CHIRO: $5k → 7%MTN SAINT VINCENTS HOME: $5k → 12%NATIONAL COLLEGE OF CHIRO: $5k → 7%KEMPE'S CHILDREN FOUNDATI: $5k → 12%Mtn Saint Vincents Home Mtn Saint Vincents Home: $5k → 12%KEMPE'S CHILDREN FOUNDATI: $5k → 12%MTN SAINT VINCENTS HOME: $5k → 12%Kempe's Children Foundati Kempe's Children Foundation: $5k → 12%Mtn Saint Vincents Home Mtn Saint Vincents Home: $5k → 12%KEMPE'S CHILDREN FOUNDATI: $5k → 12%RMHC: $10k → 12%DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE: $5k → 12%DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE: $5k → 12%Denver Museum of Nature and Science Denver Museum of Nature abd Science: $5k → 12%DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDAT: $5k → 12%Denver Zoological Foundat Denver Zoological Foundation: $5k → 12%DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDAT: $5k → 12%Denver Museum of Nature and Science Denver Museum of Nature abd Science: $5k → 12%Denver Zoological Foundat Denver Zoological Foundation: $5k → 12%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $10k → 12%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $8k → 12%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$330k · 21 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
5

Total granted

$330k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+21%

Still filing today

38%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BE
    BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +101%
  • CM
    Colorado Museum of Natural History
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +26%
  • DZ
    DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • AA
    ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • KC
    Kempe's Children Foundati Kempe's Children Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • UH
    UC HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
2
Colorado Health Institute
Health
3
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
4
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
5
Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative Inc

Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…

Housing & Shelter
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
10
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
11
Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
12
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Limon Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROOMFIELD YOUTH FOOTBALL: $20,000 · OtherBROOMFIELD YOUTH FOOTBALLMOUNT SAINT VINCENT: $19,250 · OtherMOUNT SAINT VINCENTBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $18,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMTN SAINT VINCENTS HOME: $15,000 · OtherMTN SAINT VINCENTS HOMENATIONAL COLLEGE OF CHIRO: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL COLLEGE OF CHIROHOME BUILDER'S ASSOCIATIO: $15,000 · OtherHOME BUILDER'S ASSOCIATIOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CANCER: $14,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CANCERHome Builder's Associatio Home Builder's Asscoiation: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FO: $10,000 · OtherLINCOLN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherMOUNT ST VINCENT HOME INC: $10,000 · OtherEVERGREEN LEGACY FUND: $10,000 · OtherNational College of Chiro National College of Chiropractic: $10,000 · OtherBrent's Place Brent's Place: $10,000 · OtherRMHC: $10,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · Other+2 more: $10,000 · OtherBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthBRENT ELEY FOUNDA…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $24,250 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH H…Colorado Museum of Natural History: $25,000 · Arts & CultureOUR RESCUE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · AnimalsLIMON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $14,250 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$229,500Health$59,250Arts & Culture$30,000Animals$25,000Education$20,000Human Services$14,250Food & Nutrition$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 budgetBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $24,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $14,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIMON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetMOUNT ST VINCENT HOME INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds LIMON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ST VINCENT HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Thomas Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Thomas Family 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.

    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 29 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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