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Thompson Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Thompson Charitable 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.

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$284kCommunity Improvement$150kEnvironment$95kScience & Tech$45kCivil Rights$42kHuman Services$26kEducation$14kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$5,278
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION KINDESS$15,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$10,000
UNION OF CENCERNED SCIENTIST$10,000
SOS SACS A PUCES$9,605
THE NATURE CONERVANCY$8,000
CATS CO89$5,278
FOUNDATION BRIGETTE BARDOT$5,209
SPA BEAUX DE PROVENCE$5,000
AEDO$4,680
FANS OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY REGIONAL$4,086
Individual grant recipient$3,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNION OF CENCERNED SCIENTIST: $10k → 8%TRUTHOUTORG: $4k → 12%BUNNY WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $45k → 14%ACLU FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%ENVOL VERT: $5k → 5%FANS OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY REGIONAL: $4k → 6%HAMILTON EDC: $150k → 14%CARE FLIGHT: $3k → 14%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $5k → 14%SPA: $3k → 11%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL XOCIETY: $10k → 9%CHRIS CRIFFEY MEMORIAL FELINE FOUND: $4k → 7%UNION OF CENCERNED SCIENTIST: $6k → 8%TRUTHOUTORG: $3k → 12%BUNNY WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $12k → 14%ACLU FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%FRIENDS OF HAMILTON ISD: $4k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $5k → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL XOCIETY: $10k → 9%UNION OF CENCERNED SCIENTIST: $5k → 8%BUNNY WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $12k → 14%ACLU FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%GO TEXAN: $3k → 14%OPERATION KINDESS: $15k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $4k → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL XOCIETY: $3k → 9%UNION OF CENCERNED SCIENTIST: $5k → 8%BUNNY WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $12k → 14%ACLU FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%OPERATION KINDESS: $10k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $3k → 14%UNION OF CENCERNED SCIENTIST: $5k → 8%OPERATION KINDESS: $8k → 14%UNION OF CENCERNED SCIENTIST: $5k → 8%OPERATION KINDESS: $5k → 14%WHITE COATE WASTE PROJECT: $7k → 14%UNION OF CENCERNED SCIENTIST: $5k → 8%OPERATION KINDESS: $5k → 14%GREENPEACE: $5k → 14%OPERATION KINDESS: $5k → 14%GREENPEACE: $5k → 14%OPERATION KINDESS: $4k → 14%GREENPEACE: $5k → 14%OPERATION KINDESS: $3k → 14%WHITE COATE WASTE PROJECT: $5k → 14%GREENPEACE: $5k → 14%WHITE COATE WASTE PROJECT: $4k → 14%WHITE COATE WASTE PROJECT: $4k → 14%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

MN
NY
MA
CA
UT
VA
DC
TX
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$469k · 20 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
7

Total granted

$469k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+249%

Still filing today

55%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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

  • BW
    Bunny World Foundation Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $81k · revenue +57%
  • OK
    OPERATION KINDNESS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +240%
  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +46%
  • CC
    CHRIS CRIFFEY MEMORIAL FELINE FOUND
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
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
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
2
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
3
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
4
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
5
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
6
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
7
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
8
Predator Defense

Protecting vital native predators & ending war on wildlife.

Animals
9
Last Chance for Animals

Dedicated to ending animal abuse and exploitation through education, public outreach and investigations.

Animals
10
Environmental and Animal Defense

At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…

Crime & Legal
11
Four Paws International Inc

Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.

Animals
12
Animal Diplomacy

Supporting and assisting with rescue, sheltering, spay/neuter, and rehoming of cats and dogs in needy developing countries. Our current exclusive focus is on Egypt and the Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Earth; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Hamilton Isd. 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

13 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. 13 of the 32 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $150,026 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGREENPEACE INC: $28,000 · OtherGREENPEACE INCTHE NATURE CONERVANCY: $28,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONERVANCYSOS SACS A PUCES: $22,057 · OtherSOS SACS A PUCESIndividual grant recipient: $22,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $16,800 · OtherTRUTHOUTORG: $16,300 · Other+13 more: $51,171 · Other+13 moreBunny World Foundation Inc: $81,000 · AnimalsBunny World Foundation IncOPERATION KINDNESS: $58,100 · AnimalsOPERATION KINDNESSBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $28,500 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYTHE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC: $20,000 · AnimalsTHE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INCBuddies Place Cat Rescue: $16,500 · AnimalsBuddies Place Cat Rescue+1 more: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $44,500 · InternationalNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $18,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $14,800 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF HAMILTON ISD: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFree Guitars 4 Kids: $1,400 · Arts & Culture
Other$334,354Animals$209,100International$44,500Environment$32,800Civil Rights$26,000Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$1,400

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 budgetBunny World Foundation Inc: $81,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS: $58,100 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $44,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $28,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBuddies Place Cat Rescue: $16,500 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $14,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HAMILTON ISD: $10,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds Bunny World Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Buddies Place Cat Rescue ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HAMILTON ISD ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds Free Guitars 4 Kids ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    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.

    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 32 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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