New York · Private foundation
Thompson Dean Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $820k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $27,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $295k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Thompson Dean Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $820k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $1.3M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $1.3M | 89% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $1.5M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $2.5M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $3.5M | 57% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $3.8M | 67% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salisbury School Inc | $1,500,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Friends Of Bafta Us Inc | $1,175,622 | 1 | 83% |
| Virginia Student Aid Foundation Inc | $800,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Artists for Change Inc | $210,000 | 1 | 67% |
| Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Inc | $171,350 | 3 | 1% |
| The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc | $154,800 | 3 | 1% |
| Game Conservancy USA Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 6% |
| The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc | $88,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thompson Dean Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Thompson Dean Family Foundation
- How much does Thompson Dean Family Foundation give?
- Thompson Dean Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $819,563 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Thompson Dean Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Recreation & Sports (31%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Thompson Dean Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Salisbury School Inc ($1.5M), Friends Of Bafta Us Inc ($1.2M), Virginia Student Aid Foundation Inc ($800k).
- Does Thompson Dean Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thompson Dean 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 Thompson Dean Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Thompson Dean Family Foundation based?
- Thompson Dean Family Foundation is based in NY.
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