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Thomason 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.

$51k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
57%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$11,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$34,873
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$20k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Thomason Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving4$51k0%
FY20247$96k57%
FY20238$116k75%
FY20224$5k75%
FY20214$10k75%
FY20204$10k50%
FY20197$13k86%
FY20186$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$225kReligion$24kHuman Services$17kInternational$9kHealth$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kRecreation & Sports$6kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
OH
CA
CO
KS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Benedictine College$189,37330%
Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver$15,50040%
Focus Mission Foundation$13,1052n/a
Back 2 Back Ministries Inc$7,50020%
Annunciation Heights$6,15031%
Food for the Poor Inc$4,50020%
Patris Corde Hermitage$3,00010%
In Ipso Inc$2,5001n/a
Creatio Inc$2,00010%
Hope Ignites Colorado$1,80010%
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Thomason Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Benedictine College$189,37330%
Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver$15,50040%
Focus Mission Foundation$13,1052n/a
Back 2 Back Ministries Inc$7,50020%
Annunciation Heights$6,15031%
Food for the Poor Inc$4,50020%
Patris Corde Hermitage$3,00010%
In Ipso Inc$2,5001n/a
Creatio Inc$2,00010%
Hope Ignites Colorado$1,80010%
The Childrens Treehouse Foundation$1,60011%
Franciscan University of Steubenville$1,30010%
Christ in the City$1,03010%
Saint Sebastian Project Denver Inc$1,00011%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Colorado$1,00010%
Strive Preparatory Schools$1,00010%
Colel Chabad$501n/a

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomason Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBenedictine College: $189,373 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBack 2 Back Ministries Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnnunciation Heights: $6,150 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFood for the Poor Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPatris Corde Hermitage: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCreatio Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHope Ignites Colorado: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Childrens Treehouse Foundation: $1,600 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFranciscan University of Steubenville: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChrist in the City: $1,030 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Sebastian Project Denver Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Colorado: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStrive Preparatory Schools: $1,000 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 14.

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 Catholic Foundation No ColoradoCO22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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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How do I get to Thomason Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Thomason 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.

About Thomason Family Foundation

How much does Thomason Family Foundation give?
Thomason Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $50,878 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Thomason Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Religion (8%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Thomason Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Benedictine College ($189k), Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver ($16k), Focus Mission Foundation ($13k).
Does Thomason Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thomason 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 Thomason Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Catholic Foundation No Colorado, Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
Where is Thomason Family Foundation based?
Thomason Family Foundation is based in CO.

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 30 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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