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Thompson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$165kReligion$54kHealth$30kInternational$27kEducation$20kYouth Development$11kFood & Nutrition$450Other$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$65k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARKLUND CHARITIES$25,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$7,500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$7,500
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$5,000
MARION MEDICAL MISSION$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 (FY17–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 7%MARKLUND CHARITIES: $25k → 8%MARKLUND CHARITIES: $25k → 8%MARKLUND CHARITIES: $25k → 8%MARKLUND CHARITIES: $25k → 8%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $8k → 7%MARKLUND CHARITIES: $25k → 8%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $8k → 7%MARKLUND CHARITIES: $20k → 8%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 7%MARKLAND CHARITIES: $20k → 8%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 7%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
CA
CO
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$286k · 10 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$286k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+40%

Still filing today

80%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MC
    MARKLUND CHARITIES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +86%
  • OC
    OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES
    5× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +49%
  • MM
    MARION MEDICAL MISSION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • VB
    VAIL BIBLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • C
    CRU
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • CC
    CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC
    one grant, 2021 · $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
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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2
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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3
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
4
St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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5
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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6
Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services Inc

We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…

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7
St Charles Hospital Corp

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
8
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
10
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
11
Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc

Catholic medical mission board (cmmb) is an international, faith-based nonprofit that believes in healthier lives worldwide. we work in partnerships globally to deliver locally sustainable, quality health solutions, (continued on schedule…

International
12
St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Wheelchair Mission; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARKLUND CHARITIES: $165,000 · Human ServicesMARKLUND CHARITIESOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $35,000 · Human ServicesOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIESWHEATON YOUTH OUTREACH: $11,457 · OtherWHEATON YOU…SEARCH MINISTRIES INC: $8,000 · OtherSEARCH MINI…VAIL BIBLE CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherVAIL BIBLE …CRU: $4,000 · OtherCRUCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $4,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUS…FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $14,500 · HealthFREE WHEEL…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $9,500 · HealthST JUDE CH…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $6,000 · HealthSHRINERS H…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $8,000 · EducationMARION MEDICAL MISSION: $16,500 · InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · ReligionIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 · ReligionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $450 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$200,000Other$32,457Health$30,000Education$20,000International$16,500Religion$11,500Food & Nutrition$450

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARKLUND CHARITIES: $165,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARION MEDICAL MISSION: $16,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $450 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Thompson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Thompson Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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