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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$225kReligion$24kHuman Services$17kInternational$9kHealth$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kRecreation & Sports$6kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
$11,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BENEDICTINE COLLEGE$34,873
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DENVER$11,000
ANNUNCIATION HEIGHTS$3,000
FOCUS MISSION FOUNDATION$2,005
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, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DENVER: $11k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DENVER: $3k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DENVER: $1k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DENVER: $500 → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
OH
CA
CO
KS
TX
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$255k · 9 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
21

Total granted

$255k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+69%

Still filing today

56%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • BC
    Benedictine College
    3× · 2023–2025 · $189k · revenue +33%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER
    4× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +30%
  • Back 2 Back Ministries Inc
    2× · 2019–2023 · $8k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • MH
    MAUR HILL-MOUNT ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • BH
    BELLA HEALTH AND WELLNESS
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • PC
    PATRIS CORDE HERMITAGE
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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
The Catholic Foundation No Colorado

The foundation is called by jesus christ: to promote the mission of the church in northern colorado by encouraging financial stewardship; to faithfully steward and distribute funds entrusted to the foundation; and to cooperate with…

Religion
2
The Catholic Alliance

Fundraising for our customers in such a way to allow donors to experience the joy, power, and grace of giving so that others can encounter jesus christ.

—
3
Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House Inc

Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Retreat House welcomes people of all faiths to come away and rest in God. We offer hospitality, a peaceful setting with a supportive environment for reflection, and programs for spiritual renewal.

Religion
4
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
5
Peregrino Hermitage Ltd

Establishment of a diocesan hermitage for prayer and education in the catholic faith.

Religion
6
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

—
7
Chesterton Academy of St Philip Neri

Inspired by Saint Pope John Paul II, we take as our motto Cultura Vitae, the culture of life, as our students triumph over the materialism and despair that pervades our culture in order to have life and have it abundantly. We do this with…

Education
8
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pueblo Inc

The mission of catholic charities of southern colorado, an organization with a long tradition of strengthening families and individuals, is to empower people to live whole and healthy lives to reach their fullest potential (continued on…

Human Services
9
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

—
10
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
11
St John's University New York

St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).

Education
12
Ave Maria University Inc

University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver; the most unlike its peers is The Childrens Treehouse Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Benedictine College: $189,373 · EducationBenedictine College+3 more: $3,300 · EducationMAUR HILL-MOUNT ACADEMY: $20,000 · OtherMAUR HILL-MOUNT ACADEMYFOCUS MISSION FOUNDATION: $13,105 · OtherFOCUS MISSION FOUNDATIONMULLEN HIGH SCHOOL: $10,405 · OtherMULLEN HIGH SCHOOLFIRE FOUNDATION: $7,100 · OtherFIRE FOUNDATIONANNUNCIATION HEIGHTS: $6,150 · OtherANNUNCIATION HEIGHTSBELLA HEALTH AND WELLNESS: $4,000 · Other+11 more: $16,240 · Other+11 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $15,500 · Human ServicesBack 2 Back Ministries Inc: $7,500 · ReligionPATRIS CORDE HERMITAGE: $3,000 · ReligionIN IPSO INC: $2,500 · ReligionChrist in the City: $1,030 · ReligionFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $4,500 · InternationalThe Childrens Treehouse Foundation: $1,600 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $1,000 · HealthCreatio Inc: $2,000 · Environment
Education$192,673Other$77,000Human Services$15,500Religion$14,030International$4,500Health$2,600Environment$2,000

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

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
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 Catholic Foundati…Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomason Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomason Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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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