New York · Private foundation
Thompson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 76
- Grants FY2025
- 94
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 79 to 94
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Thompson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $882k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 74 | $2.3M | 43% |
| FY2024 | 94 | $3.1M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $3.1M | 28% |
| FY2022 | 89 | $3.0M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 79 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Virginia Workforce Development Board | $1,069,500 | 4 | 15% |
| Appalachian Sustainable Development | $416,063 | 4 | 5% |
| Locus Impact Fund | $375,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Coalfield Water Development Fund | $350,000 | 2 | 27% |
| Buchanan County Youth Inc | $265,000 | 4 | 68% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Central Appalachia Inc | $225,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Alice Lloyd College | $202,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The University of Virginia's College at Wise Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Shora Foundation | $185,000 | 5 | 28% |
| Appalachia Service Project Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 130 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 77 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thompson Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 114 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: East Tennessee Foundation · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Akima Club Inc · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · Lawson Family Foundation · Variety of Eastern Tennessee · The Clayton Homes Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · The Melrose Foundation
How this is measured
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About Thompson Charitable Foundation
- How much does Thompson Charitable Foundation give?
- Thompson Charitable Foundation reported 76 grants totaling $2,438,534 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 94 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Thompson Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (14%), Education (13%), Health (11%).
- Who are Thompson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Southwest Virginia Workforce Development Board ($1.1M), Appalachian Sustainable Development ($416k), Locus Impact Fund ($375k).
- Does Thompson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thompson Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thompson Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee, United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc.
- Where is Thompson Charitable Foundation based?
- Thompson Charitable Foundation is based in NY.
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