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Thompson Family 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.

$214k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
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.

Health$544kInternational$289kHousing & Shelter$217kReligion$198kEducation$188kHuman Services$92kArts & Culture$78kCommunity Improvement$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $187k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FDN OF AL$25,000
US ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSN$25,000
ATEAM MINISTRIES$25,000
THE TRUE VINE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH$25,000
KNOWLEDGE RHYTHM & UNDERSTANDING$15,000
THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP$15,000
GREATER B'HAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$14,831
ASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$12,500
CHURCH OF THE HIGHLANDS$10,000
BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATIONS INC$10,000
LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$5,000
ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
MIKE ESKRIDGE FOUNDATION$5,000
YWCA CENTRAL AL$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY: $7k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $15k → 16%THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $15k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $15k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $10k → 16%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

IL
NY
PA
CA
CO
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 28 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
18

Total granted

$1.7M
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+10%

Still filing today

57%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
EducationHealthReligionRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • UI
    US ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $289k · revenue +536%
  • BC
    BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +9%
  • AM
    ATEAM MINISTRIES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $243k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • BC
    BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -78%
  • RB
    REV BIRMINGHAM INC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +17%
  • WI
    Washington International Horse Show
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +2%
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Uab Educational Foundation

To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.

Education
3
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus D/B/a Hillels of the Florida Suncoast

To enrich the lives of jewish student undergraduate & graduate students, so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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4
Stoneleigh-Burnham School

Stoneleigh-burnham school is an academic community that fosters an international perspective. we inspire girls to pursue meaningful lives based on honor, respect, and intellectual curiosity. each student is challenged to discover her best…

Education
5
The Felicia Penzell Weber Jewish Community High School Inc

The weber school prepares its students for success in college and in life, inspiring them to be knowledgeable, thinking, responsible jewish adults, by weaving together: the pursuit of academic excellence; a commitment to jewish values, the…

Education
6
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
7
Ariel Ministries

Ariel ministries exists to bring the good news of the messiah to jewish people and to disciple believers through intensive bible teaching from a messianic jewish perspective and dispensational theological position. continued on schedule o

Religion
8
Annapolis Christian Academy

Private school for grades k-12

Education
9
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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10
Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam

To maintain a school for hebrew religious and secular education

Education
11
Commission for Jewish Education of Greater Youngstown

The mission of the commission for jewish education is to build a strong foundation of quality jewish education for all jews in our regional community; to educate the community in the history, language, tradition and literature of the…

Religion
12
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs; the most unlike its peers is Saving America's Mustangs. 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

27 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. 27 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA: $285,300 · HealthBREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION …ATEAM MINISTRIES: $243,400 · HealthATEAM MINISTRIES+2 more: $5,100 · HealthBIRMINGHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $126,916 · OtherBIRMINGHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITYGREATER B'HAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $89,831 · OtherGREATER B'HAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITYTHE TRUE VINE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH: $80,000 · OtherTHE TRUE VINE INTERNATIONAL CHURCHTHE CENTER FOR EXEC LEADERSHIP: $50,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR EXEC LEADERSHIPYWCA CENTRAL AL: $46,000 · OtherYWCA CENTRAL ALALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $25,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE HIGHLANDS INC: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherTIMBERLINE MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · OtherBIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $20,000 · Other+18 more: $74,100 · Other+18 moreUS ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $289,200 · InternationalUS ISRAEL EDUCATIO…FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationFURMAN UNI…INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL: $28,000 · EducationINDIAN SPR…KNOWLEDGE RHYTHM & UNDERSTANDING INC: $25,000 · EducationKNOWLEDGE …BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationBIRMINGHAM…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $16,950 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…CREATIVE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $13,050 · EducationCREATIVE M…+2 more: $10,000 · Education+2 moreTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesLEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesGRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $7,300 · Human ServicesRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsWashington International Horse Show: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $57,500 · Employment
Health$533,800Other$576,847International$289,200Education$158,000Human Services$82,300Recreation & Sports$60,000Employment$57,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUS ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $289,200 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetBREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA: $285,300 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetATEAM MINISTRIES: $243,400 over 9y, 11% of budgetASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetINDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL: $28,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetKNOWLEDGE RHYTHM & UNDERSTANDING INC: $25,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetBIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIMBERLINE MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $16,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY MINISTRIES: $16,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetREV BIRMINGHAM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCREATIVE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $13,050 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWashington International Horse Show: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY MINISTRY FOR GIRLS INC: $9,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetGRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $7,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION - HAITI: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 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 US ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA ↗
  • Who funds ATEAM MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds KNOWLEDGE RHYTHM & UNDERSTANDING INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TIMBERLINE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds REV BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Washington International Horse Show ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MINISTRY FOR GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS ↗
  • Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION - HAITI ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Hill Crest Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…Protective Life Found…Nall-Whatley Foundati…Robert R Meyer Founda…Susan Mott Webb Chari…The Daniel Foundation…Lisa and Alan Engel F…Altecstyslinger Found…Arlington Partners Ch…The Hackney Foundation
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL35.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Nall-Whatley Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Arlington Partners Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hackney Foundation

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 48 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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