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Thompson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLD MISSION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $88,440 |
| SHAWNEE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| KU ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $21,100 |
| WELL DONE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PROJECT HOME VCC | $20,000 |
| ST MICHAEL ALL ANGELS | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $10,000 |
| SHAWNEE TOWN MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| SHAWNEE MISSION EDUCATION FUND | $7,500 |
| SHAWNEE MISSION EDUCATION FUND | $7,500 |
| THE LAND INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| KANSAS LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR OXFORD | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 13 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Association8× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +93%
- AFAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +21%
- CCCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- ANAlpha Nu Educational Foundationone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -93%
- WEWILLIAMS EDUCATIONAL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $15k
- KRKS RURAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Characterplus and the most unlike its peers is Well Done Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Community Center of Shawnee Inc ↗
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- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA DELTA DELTA FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds Alpha Nu Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Well Done Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Kansas 4-H Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WYANDOTTE AND JOHNSON COUNTIES OF KANSAS ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTHFRONT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Greater Horizons · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Thompson Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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