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Thomas Thompson Trust at a glance

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Thomas Thompson Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$2.1MArts & Culture$536kYouth Development$333kHuman Services$331kEducation$287kHousing & Shelter$249kFood & Nutrition$231kPhilanthropy$221kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $528k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $443k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHERN DUCHESS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$125,000
BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$100,000
BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$68,000
BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$50,000
RESCUE INC$50,000
GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE$50,000
WINDHAM COUNTY DENTAL CENTER$40,000
WINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT$25,000
UPSTATE FILMS$25,000
STARR INSTITUTE$25,000
WILDERSTEIN PRESERVATION$25,000
NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATRE$23,000
SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC$20,000
ST BRIGID'S KITCHEN & PANTRY$20,000
BRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE$20,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER: $14k → 11%RHINEBECK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL: $15k → 9%RHINEBECK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL: $15k → 9%ASTOR SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $10k → 9%RHINEBECK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $30k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $30k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $20k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $20k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $15k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $15k → 9%BROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $20k → 11%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%GARDEN PATH ELDER LIVING INC: $20k → 11%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%GARDEN PATH ELDER LIVING: $10k → 11%BROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7k → 11%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 51 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
53

Total granted

$3.7M
$707k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

90%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $345k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BM
    Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
    5× · 2021–2025 · $946k · revenue +22%
  • ND
    Northern Dutchess Hospital
    2× · 2023–2024 · $286k · revenue +24%
  • NF
    NDH Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $180k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -54% · 27% of their budget
  • BS
    BRATTLEBORO SENIOR MEALS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +6%
  • BR
    Brattleboro Retreat
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +19%
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
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
2
Vermont Humanities Council

Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.

—
3
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
4
Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement
5
Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc

The Vermont Council on Rural Development helps Vermont citizens build prosperous and resilient communities through democratic engagement, marshalling resources, and collective action.

Community Improvement
6
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
7
Vermont Studio Center Inc

To support artists and writers by providing studio residencies in an inclusive international community, honoring creative work as the communication of spirit through form.

—
8
Vermont Public Radio

Listener-supported Vermont Public Radio has been serving the people of Vermont and the surrounding region since 1977. As Vermonts only statewide public radio network, VPR provides an essential and trusted independent voice for news,…

—
9
Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc

Mt. Ascutney Outdoors, Inc's mission is to promote vitality within the community by providing affordable and unique recreational, cultural and educational activities to local residents and visitors from the Upper Valley region of Vermont…

Recreation & Sports
10
Addison County Chamber of Commerce Inc

The Addison County Chamber of Commerce mission is to enhance the economic vitality of Addison County.

—
11
North Country Center for the Arts Inc

A premier center for the arts in the white mountain area of new hampshire

Arts & Culture
12
Bennington County Meals Program

Provide quality, nutritious and creative meals to individuals age sixty years and older; as well as, disabled residents of Bennington County, Vermont. This is accomplished through a community meal program and home deliveries to those…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Together Hudson Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harris Hill Ski Jump Inc. 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

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 122 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/87
Grantees still filing
45/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital: $946,000 · HealthBrattleboro Memorial HospitalNorthern Dutchess Hospital: $286,000 · HealthNorthern Dutchess HospitalNDH Foundation: $180,000 · HealthNDH FoundationWINDHAM COUNTY DENTAL CENTER INC: $140,000 · HealthWINDHAM COUNTY DENTAL CENTER INCBRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOC INC: $120,000 · HealthBRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOC INC+7 more: $204,000 · Health+7 moreGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC: $165,000 · OtherGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INCNORTHERN DUCHESS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherNORTHERN DUCHESS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONWilderstein Preservation: $100,000 · OtherWilderstein PreservationBRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE INC: $55,000 · OtherINTERACTION INC: $55,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC: $150,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INCFOOD CONNECTS: $57,500 · Other+60 more: $926,870 · Other+60 moreUPSTATE FILMS LTD: $57,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureRiver Gallery School Inc: $42,000 · Arts & CultureNEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureRHINEBECK PERFORMING ARTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureVermont Independent Media Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureVERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HATCH INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureEpsilon Spires Inc: $13,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesRHINEBECK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL: $40,000 · Human ServicesGARDEN PATH ELDER LIVING INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesBROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesTHE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesOUR PLACE DROP IN CENTER INC OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER: $14,000 · Human ServicesASTOR SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHEATRE ADVENTURE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesCULTURECONNECT INC: $118,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC: $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentWINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $89,600 · EducationCENTER FOR HEALTH AND LEARNING LTD: $30,000 · EducationEDUCATION NETWORK FOR TEACHERS & ARTISTS: $25,000 · EducationHIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC: $21,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC: $10,000 · EducationIN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC: $10,000 · EducationGLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATIONINC: $10,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationRHINEBECK PARK FUND INC: $115,000 · Community ImprovementRETREAT FARM LTD: $40,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN BRATTLEBORO ALLIANCE INC: $11,400 · Community Improvement
Health$1,876,000Other$1,634,370Arts & Culture$353,500Human Services$291,000Youth Development$221,000Education$210,600Community Improvement$186,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBrattleboro Memorial Hospital: $946,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNorthern Dutchess Hospital: $286,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNDH Foundation: $180,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC: $165,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetWINDHAM COUNTY DENTAL CENTER INC: $140,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $130,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOC INC: $120,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCULTURECONNECT INC: $118,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetRHINEBECK PARK FUND INC: $115,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetWilderstein Preservation: $100,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetWINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $89,600 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetUPSTATE FILMS LTD: $57,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD CONNECTS: $57,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE INC: $55,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetINTERACTION INC: $55,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $50,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetRESCUE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTurning Point of Windam County: $50,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $48,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRiver Gallery School Inc: $42,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetRHINEBECK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL: $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetRETREAT FARM LTD: $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC: $36,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC: $33,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetGARDEN PATH ELDER LIVING INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTH AND LEARNING LTD: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $27,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetTHE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetBRATTLEBORO SENIOR MEALS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetRHINEBECK PERFORMING ARTS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBrattleboro Retreat: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION NETWORK FOR TEACHERS & ARTISTS: $25,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetHIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC: $21,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVermont Independent Media Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPARKS PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetGOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetSOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER HUDSON VALLEY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetHarris Hill Ski Jump Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.8% 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.

The Vermont Community…The Windham Foundatio…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Agnes M Lindsay TrustVermont Council on th…Sorg-Vogt Charitable …Periwinkle Foundation…Price Chopper's Golub…George W Mergens Foun…Community Foundations…Frost Memorial Fund I…David Greenewalt Char…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT75.7× affinity44 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844 · Periwinkle Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · George W Mergens Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Frost Memorial Fund Inc · David Greenewalt Charitable Trust Geoffrey M Mason Trustee

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 Thompson Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas Thompson Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Center for Health and Learning Ltd: 100% of income from government
  • Greater Falls Community Justice Center: 98% of income from government
  • Turning Point of Windam County: 83% of income from government
  • Groundworks Collaborative Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Interaction Inc: 70% of income from government
  • Southeast Vermont Transit Inc: 61% of income from government
  • Green Mountain Conservancy Incorporated: 49% of income from government
  • United Way of Windham County Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Retreat Farm Ltd: 25% of income from government
  • Out in the Open Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Housing Opportunities Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Food Connects: 15% of income from government
  • Governor's Institutes of Vermont: 15% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Downtown Brattleboro Alliance Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Parks Place Community Center: 8% of income from government
  • Rescue Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Connections Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Historical Society of Windham County Inc: 6% of income from government
  • New England Center for Circus Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Memorial Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Windham County Dental Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Garden Path Elder Living Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Retreat: 0% of income from government
  • Friends of Vernon Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Theatre Adventure Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to Thomas Thompson Trust?

Find your warmest path to Thomas Thompson Trust 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 122 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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