· Private foundation
Thompson Family Charitable Fdn Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROYALL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $50,000 |
| WISCONSIN WOMENS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $37,400 |
| VITERBO UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ROYALL SCHOOL SCHOLARS | $6,000 |
| ST JAMES CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MILE BLUFF MEDICAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| ST BERNARDS CATHEDRAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC | $2,500 |
| SEMINOLE POOL-265 FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY-MADISON | $2,500 |
| NEVER SURRENDER INC-SANDY JUDGE | $650 |
| BADGER BOYS STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +228% since the first grant, against +63% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CGCAMP GRAY INC3× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +228%
- VUVITERBO UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +12%
- SHStarkey Hearing Foundation2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +321%
Funded once
- WWWISCONSIN WOMENS HEALTHone grant, 2019 · $20k
- SAST AUGUSTINE UNIVERSITY PARISHone grant, 2022 · $5k
- GJGUNDERSON-ST JOSEPHS HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Title holding company for an exempt organization.
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Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP GRAY INC ↗
- Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MILE BLUFF MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Starkey Hearing Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds 265 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds The World Orphan Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED ↗
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: Madison Community Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thompson Family Charitable Fdn Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thompson Family Charitable Fdn Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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