· Private foundation
Thomas N Felgner Charitable 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $175,000 |
| POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| INTERWOVEN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| PASADENA HUMANE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +51% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $658k · revenue +51%- PSPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +72%
- HCHARAMBEE CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $24k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- DUDUKE UNIVERSITY CHAPELone grant, 2023 · $120k
- FAFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles Countyone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +23%
- 4T4TH TRIMESTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +54%
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.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…
How this is measured
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 31 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HARAMBEE CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Five Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County ↗
- Who funds 4TH TRIMESTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Foothill Family Service ↗
- Who funds NURU INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Much Love Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds THE FINDLAY-HANCOCK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Callahan Family Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas N Felgner Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas N Felgner Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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