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Thompson Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
76
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THOMPSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CUMBERLAND PLATEAU PLANNING DISTRICT$125,000
VIRIGINA COMMUNITY CAPITAL (LOCUS IMAPCT$125,000
SUNSET HOLLER$100,000
YWCA KNOXVILLE$100,000
THEATRE GUILD OF BUCHANAN CO$81,324
CARE CENTER OF SWVA$75,000
TEEN VENTURE$60,000
MISSION DENTAL$56,250
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE CUMBERLAND PLAT$55,000
CANEY CREEK COMMUNITY CENTER$50,000
FDN FOR APPALACHIAN KY$50,000
TAZEWELL COMMUNITY FDN$50,000
INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER$50,000
COMMUNITES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIG$50,000
MANCHESTER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL DBA ADVENT$50,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SMOKY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS: $23k → 10%PENULTIMATE DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 11%HELPING MAMAS: $10k → 9%NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN: $10k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS KENTUCKY REGION: $10k → 25%DANIEL BOONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $50k → 35%PENULTIMATE DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE BLUEGRASS: $20k → 15%NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN: $10k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS KENTUCKY REGION: $25k → 27%PENULTIMATE DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 11%NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN: $10k → 16%LAUREL COUNTY OLDER PERSONS ACTIVITY CENTER: $20k → 20%DANIEL BOONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $49k → 35%PENULTIMATE DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 11%NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN: $10k → 16%LAUREL COUNTY OLDER PERSONS ACTIVITY CENTER: $15k → 20%AMERICAN RED CROSS KENTUCKY REGION: $20k → 27%PENULTIMATE DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 11%LAUREL COUNTY OLDER PERSONS ACTIVITY CENTER: $15k → 20%AMERICAN RED CROSS KENTUCKY REGION: $15k → 27%SCOTT COUNTY SHELTER SOCIETY: $25k → 22%HAVEN HOUSE INC: $25k → 10%EMORY VALLEY CENTER: $13k → 13%SCOTT COUNTY SHELTER SOCIETY INC: $20k → 22%APPALACHIAN AGENCY FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: $50k → 18%SCOTT COUNTY SHELTER SOCIETY INC: $20k → 22%BIG CREEK MISSION: $40k → 30%STINNETT AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 30%YWCA KNOXVILLE: $100k → 12%STINNETT AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 30%STINNETT AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 30%STINNETT AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 30%CLINCH INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES: $20k → 27%CLINCH RIVER INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES INC: $15k → 27%CLINCH INDEPENDENT LIVING: $15k → 27%CLINCH INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES: $15k → 27%RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE (THE RESTORATION HOUSE): $50k → 12%RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $50k → 12%RESTORATION HOUSE OF E TN: $15k → 12%KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $20k → 12%KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $15k → 12%SOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES: $15k → 12%CONNECT MINISTRIES: $20k → 12%CONNECT MINISTRIES: $15k → 12%FOSTERING HOPE TN: $30k → 12%FOSTERING HOPE TN INC: $15k → 12%CARECUTS INC: $30k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 100 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

100 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
75

Total granted

$11M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+4%

Still filing today

75%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AS
    APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $416k · revenue +113%
  • LI
    LOCUS IMPACT FUND
    4× · 2021–2024 · $375k · revenue +13%
  • BC
    BUCHANAN COUNTY YOUTH INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $265k · revenue +9% · 68% of their budget

Funded once

  • BU
    BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +1%
  • TW
    TENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +1%
  • SV
    SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE (SWCC COLLEGE)
    one grant, 2022 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Child Advocacy Center of Anderson Co Tn

To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.

Human Services
2
Anderson County Community Action Inc

The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…

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3
Tennessee Justice Center Inc

The tennessee justice center (tjc) advocates on behalf of low-income tennesseans in areas of public policy having the greatest impact on their health and welfare.

Crime & Legal
4
Housing Hub

Building homes working families can afford. We are dedicated to: providing new, affordable homes to residents in the South Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee; preparing future and current homeowners to both acquire and maintain a safe and…

Housing & Shelter
5
Tennessee Valley Coalition to End Homelessness Inc

Providing services to clients to assist in preventing homelessness, training partner organizations on reporting system and reporting to governments, statistical information.

Human Services
6
Knox Co Council On Aging

To provide services for senior citizens in knox county

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7
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…

Human Services
8
Knox Housing Partnership Inc

To provide affordable housing to low and moderate income persons in east tennessee through first-time homebuyer education; assist with mortgage loans, downpayments, and closing costs; build new single family housing; develop multi-family…

Housing & Shelter
9
Volunteer East Tennessee

Volunteer East Tennessee inspires service by equipping organizations and mobilizing volunteers to connect with one another and strengthen communities.

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10
Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc

To serve those in need by acquiring and distributing food, grocery items, and government commodities through a network of charitable partnering agencies in 42 kentucky counties.

Food & Nutrition
11
Tennessee Valley Outreach Inc

Reach out to the homeless, hungry, hurting and hopeless throughout north alabama and southern tennessee with the good news of the gospel of jesus christ.

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12
Backroads of Appalachia

Backroads of appalachia is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide new economic opportunities within the communities of eastern kentucky and southwest virginia.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Young Women's Christian Association and the most unlike its peers is Hoof & Harness Experiential Learning Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health & Senior C…Community Health CentersKentucky Advocacy & Educati…Union Health & Welfare Trus…Regional Development Organi…Bluegrass Regional Grantmak…Youth Sports ProgramsPrivate K-12 SchoolsRecovery and Stabilization …Richmond Regional Advocacy …Values-Based Advocacy Organ…Food Access & Hunger ReliefKnoxville Community Develop…Member Recreation ClubsCancer Treatment CentersReligious Institution Suppo…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr15%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%45%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr15%11%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/132
the rest of the field
13%
727/5,665

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 123 of the 209 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
120/123
Grantees still filing
79/123
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA — $628,943 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIACUMBERLAND PLATEAU PLANNING DISTRICT — $415,000 · OtherCUMBERLAND PLATEAU PLANNING DISTRICTFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $275,000 · OtherCOALFIELD WATER DEVELOPMENT FUND — $350,000 · Other+128 more — $5,994,293 · Other+128 moreSTINNETT AREA COMMUNITY CENTER — $160,000 · Human ServicesSTINNETT AR…THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE — $115,000 · Human ServicesTHE RESTORA…Penultimate Development — $115,000 · Human ServicesPenultimate…THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG W…DANIEL BOONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENC — $98,540 · Human ServicesDANIEL BOON…THE SHELTER SOCIETY INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE SHELTER…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $70,000 · Human ServicesCLINCH INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesKNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER — $55,000 · Human ServicesAID TO DISTRESSED FAMILIES OF APPALACHIAN COUNTIES — $55,000 · Human ServicesAPPALACHIAN AGENCY FOR SR CITIZENS — $50,000 · Human ServicesLAUREL COUNTY OLDER PERSONS ACTIVITY CENTER INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesNEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN INC — $50,000 · Human Services+13 more — $346,103 · Human Services+13 moreSOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD — $1,069,500 · EmploymentALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $202,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · EducationBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE — $126,120 · EducationTENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $90,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF LITERACY INC — $57,500 · EducationAPPALACHIAN COLLEGE OF PHARMACY — $40,000 · EducationFRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC — $40,000 · Education+2 more — $40,000 · EducationINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER — $150,582 · HealthHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION — $150,000 · HealthFree Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge — $110,000 · HealthSCOTT CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER — $96,443 · HealthEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $80,000 · HealthHOPE RESOURCE CENTER — $75,000 · HealthHOOF & HARNESS EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING INC — $58,600 · HealthREBOOT RECOVERY INC — $56,000 · HealthFree Medical Clinic of America — $50,000 · HealthTAZEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthProvision Cares Foundation Inc — $35,000 · Health+5 more — $105,899 · HealthBUCHANAN COUNTY YOUTH INC — $265,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA INC — $225,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL TALK INC — $130,900 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF TENNESSEE VALLEY — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHOMPSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE CUMBERLAND PL — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL — $45,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $20,925 · Youth DevelopmentAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — $416,063 · Community ImprovementLOCUS IMPACT FUND — $375,000 · Community ImprovementHENDERSON SETTLEMENT INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementSEEED INC — $33,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$7,663,236Human Services$1,404,643Employment$1,069,500Education$1,046,120Health$1,017,524Youth Development$891,825Community Improvement$869,063

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD — $1,069,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — $416,063 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetLOCUS IMPACT FUND — $375,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCOALFIELD WATER DEVELOPMENT FUND — $350,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $275,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBUCHANAN COUNTY YOUTH INC — $265,000 over 4y, 68% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA INC — $225,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $202,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSHORA FOUNDATION — $185,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC — $175,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPITALITY PANTRIES INC — $170,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSTINNETT AREA COMMUNITY CENTER — $160,000 over 4y, 91% of budgetINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER — $150,582 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHISTORIC POCAHONTAS INC — $148,630 over 2y, 78% of budgetGIRL TALK INC — $130,900 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE — $126,120 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE — $115,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetPenultimate Development — $115,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetWESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER CO — $110,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFree Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge — $110,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHEATRE GUILD OF BUCHANAN COUNTY — $106,324 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDANIEL BOONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENC — $98,540 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSCOTT CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER — $96,443 over 5y, 14% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC — $95,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE — $85,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF TENNESSEE VALLEY — $80,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE SHELTER SOCIETY INC — $75,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetCHILD ABUSE REPORTING AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER OF SOUTHWEST VA — $75,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetHOPE RESOURCE CENTER — $75,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCOMPASSION COUNSELING — $70,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetTHOMPSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL — $66,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCLINCH INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES INC — $65,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetWILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART — $60,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCASA OF THE TENNESSEE HEARTLAND INC — $60,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOOF & HARNESS EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING INC — $58,600 over 5y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF LITERACY INC — $57,500 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetREBOOT RECOVERY INC — $56,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

East Tennessee Founda…Trinity Health Founda…United Way of Greater…Akima Club IncHaslam Family Foundat…Gene & Florence Monda…Lawson Family Foundat…Variety of Eastern Te…The Clayton Homes Fou…Stowers Machinery Fou…Bill and Crissy Hasla…The Melrose Foundation
East Tennessee FoundationTN78.2× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Thompson Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Thompson Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Thompson Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 209 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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