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Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$174k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$505k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$174k25%
FY20239$303k22%
FY20228$86k25%
FY20215$65k20%
FY20204$51k50%
FY201912$126k33%
FY201815$99k40%
FY201712$78kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$255kEducation$154kArts & Culture$116kCommunity Improvement$113kPhilanthropy$97kHealth$85kFood & Nutrition$85kHuman Services$32kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Utah Symphony & Opera$106,00060%
Charitable Events Corporation$90,70055%
Hope Clinic Inc$80,000618%
University of Utah$72,5004n/a
Utah Food Bank$69,00080%
Brigham Young University$60,0004n/a
Dual Immersion Academy$18,0001n/a
Kostopulos Dream Foundation$10,00011%
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art$10,00011%
Cars That Care Foundation$10,00019%
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All grantees of Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Utah Symphony & Opera$106,00060%
Charitable Events Corporation$90,70055%
Hope Clinic Inc$80,000618%
University of Utah$72,5004n/a
Utah Food Bank$69,00080%
Brigham Young University$60,0004n/a
Dual Immersion Academy$18,0001n/a
Kostopulos Dream Foundation$10,00011%
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art$10,00011%
Cars That Care Foundation$10,00019%
Utah Animal Adoption Center$10,00022%
No Poor Among US$8,00031%
Feeding Children Everywhere Inc$5,00010%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$4,00020%
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc$4,00020%
The Zions Bancorporation Foundation$2,00010%
United States Fund for Unicef$2,00010%
Primary Children's Cancer$1,0001n/a
Ken Garff for Good$75010%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($419k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUtah Symphony & Opera: $106,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCharitable Events Corporation: $90,700 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetHope Clinic Inc: $80,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetUtah Food Bank: $69,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCars That Care Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetUtah Animal Adoption Center: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNo Poor Among US: $8,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFeeding Children Everywhere Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Zions Bancorporation Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKen Garff for Good: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Beesley Family FoundationUT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Beesley Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation

How much does Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation give?
Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $174,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Education (16%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Utah Symphony & Opera ($106k), Charitable Events Corporation ($91k), Hope Clinic Inc ($80k).
Does Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Beesley Family Foundation, Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation.
Where is Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation based?
Thomas Frank Thatcher Foundation is based in UT.

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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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