California · Private foundation
Thomas Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Thomas Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $1.4M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $674k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $395k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $854k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $665k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $360k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $326k | 44% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $229k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feeding America | $1,305,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance | $280,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Sustainable Harvest International | $235,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $210,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $200,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Family Education & Support Services | $164,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Gettysburg Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Our City Forest | $135,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Trees for the Future Inc | $130,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Yelm School District No 2 | $113,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thomas Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: United Way of Thurston County · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Thomas Family Foundation
- How much does Thomas Family Foundation give?
- Thomas Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $1,365,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Thomas Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (36%), Environment (19%), Education (14%).
- Who are Thomas Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Feeding America ($1.3M), Friends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance ($280k), Sustainable Harvest International ($235k).
- Does Thomas Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas 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 Thomas Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Thurston County, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Thomas Family Foundation based?
- Thomas Family Foundation is based in CA.
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