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Thomson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MYRIAD USA | $7,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE UPSTATE | $5,000 |
| BELTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,000 |
| HAYWOOD ARTS REGIONAL THEATER | $1,500 |
| BELTON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| BELTON AREA MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| THE PEACE CENTER | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.
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; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMConnie Maxwell Children's Ministries8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +109%
- HAHAYWOOD ARTS REGIONAL THEATRE9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +33%
- HOHOSPICE OF THE UPSTATE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- TYTHE YORK DISABILITIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +22%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +10%
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.
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.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
The arts council connects our communities, embraces diversity, promotes individual creativity, advances economic development, and fosters lifelong learning through the arts.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…
The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries ↗
- Who funds HAYWOOD ARTS REGIONAL THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds BELTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands of Haywood ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS ↗
- Who funds THE FRAZEE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BELTON TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Abney Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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