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Thompson Family Foundation Ltd at a glance

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Thompson Family Foundation Ltd

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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$22kHealth$19kEducation$9kReligion$9kRecreation & Sports$5kFood & Nutrition$3k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$146k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM$5,000
HERO DOGS$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $5k → 6%WARRIORS CANINE CONNECTION: $2k → 8%HERO DOGS: $5k → 8%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.
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26k · 3 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1117% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$26k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1117%
+24%

Still filing today

67%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • VV
    VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +33%
  • SM
    ST MARYS CATHOLIC CHURCH
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6k
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2022 · $5k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • CF
    CURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • CA
    CHALLENGE ASPENgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +45%
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
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
2
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
3
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
4
K9S for Warriors Research Institute Inc

Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.

—
5
Canines for Service Inc

CFS seeks to inspire veterans through life-changing canine partnerships.

Human Services
6
Valor Service Dogs Inc

Valor service dogs provides service canines to post-9/11 combat, simulation and training wounded united states veterans and first responders suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and mobility disabilities.

Animals
7
Northwest Battle Buddies

To empower combat veterans with ptsd to regain their freedom and independence by partnering them with professionally trained and specifically matched service dogs at no charge to serve those who have served us all.

Human Services
8
Pawsitivity

Train and place service dogs at no cost with U.S. military veterans with PTSD and other disabilities to increase independence.

Human Services
9
The Jack Canine Foundation
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10
Fallen Soldiers March

Providing highly trained service dogs for wounded united states military veterans in need of assistance

—
11
Semper K9 Assistance Dogs

Combat veteran-founded and operated Semper K9s mission is to enhance the quality of life for wounded members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families by providing them with custom-trained mental health mobility service dogs. Using…

Public Benefit
12
Captain Erick Foster Memorial Ride

Team foster raises money to partner service dogs with tri-state area veterans suffering from combat-related disabilities, including post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) and traumatic brain injury (tbi). see schedule o for continuation. we…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Matthew V Poyner Memorial Found. 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

10 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. 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INCCHALLENGE ASPEN: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE ASPENHero Dogs Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesHero Dogs IncWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $2,100 · Human ServicesWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INCST MARYS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $6,200 · OtherST MARYS CATHOLIC CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBrady Urological Center Johns Hopkins University: $2,500 · OtherBrady Urological Center Johns Hopki…St Mary's Community Outreach Program: $2,500 · OtherSt Mary's Community Outreach Progra…ST MARY'S PARISH - MICHAEL HURLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2,500 · OtherST MARY'S PARISH - MICHAEL HURLEY S…Individual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER: $5,000 · HealthCURESEARCH FO…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER …STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SIL…Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $2,100 · EducationChildren of…LOAVES & FISHES OF THE FOX VALLEY INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionMATTHEW V POYNER MEMORIAL FOUND: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$27,100Other$20,700Health$8,000Education$6,600Food & Nutrition$2,500Philanthropy$1,000

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 budgetVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLENGE ASPEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHero Dogs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES OF THE FOX VALLEY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMATTHEW V POYNER MEMORIAL FOUND: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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