· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $187k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATIONS INC | $10,000 |
| LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE HIGHLANDS | $10,000 |
| MIKE ESKRIDGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| YWCA CENTRAL AL | $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 (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 your grants land in higher-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 +26% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- UIUS ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $289k · revenue +536%
- BCBREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA9× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +9%
- AMATEAM MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $243k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- BCBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -78%
- RBREV BIRMINGHAM INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +17%
- WIWashington International Horse Showone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +2%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.
To enrich the lives of jewish student undergraduate & graduate students, so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
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…
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…
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
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
Private school for grades k-12
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…
To maintain a school for hebrew religious and secular education
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs and 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 48 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 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-SOUTHERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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.