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Thompson Jones Alexander 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE BALLET | $5,000 |
| WILSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| STRATFORD HALL HISTORIC PRESERVE | $5,000 |
| RARE BOOK SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $2,500 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| GROTON SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT | $2,500 |
| INT'L CENTER FOR RELIGION & DIPLOMA | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| US COURT TENNIS PRESERVATION FOUN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH ATLANTI | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- TATHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $44k · revenue +90%
GROTON SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +17%- CBCharlottesville Ballet3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2020 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2023 · $5k
- RBRon Brown Scholar Fundgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +83%
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 university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Marys Hall Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Charlottesville Ballet ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RELIGION AND DIPLOMACY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES COURT TENNIS PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Wilson Disease Association ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT ↗
- Who funds GRAMERCY PARK BLOCK ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds Ron Brown Scholar Fund ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS HALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUNICIPAL BAND OF CHARLOTTESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HEADWATERS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Sentara Health · Whitney and Anne Stone Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Jones Alexander 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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