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Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc

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.

$38k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,804
Organizations funded a year
5 to 14
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$25k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthInternationalEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$38k56%
FY20235$22k60%
FY202214$354k64%
FY20218$36k50%
FY202012$55k67%
FY20196$41kn/a
70% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$84kHealth$32kReligion$17kPhilanthropy$14kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$4kHousing & Shelter$3kInternational$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Buffalo Urban League Inc$81,07411%
Gofundmeorg$6,51220%
Erie County Medical Center Corp$5,2001n/a
Trusted Gives Inc$3,77516%
American Heart Association Inc$3,50020%
Bootsector$3,00013%
Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society$2,60020%
Ecmc Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Compass House$2,06010%
Journey Church Incorporated$2,0002n/a
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All grantees of Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Buffalo Urban League Inc$81,07411%
Gofundmeorg$6,51220%
Erie County Medical Center Corp$5,2001n/a
Trusted Gives Inc$3,77516%
American Heart Association Inc$3,50020%
Bootsector$3,00013%
Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society$2,60020%
Ecmc Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Compass House$2,06010%
Journey Church Incorporated$2,0002n/a
The Road Less Traveled Inc$1,7502n/a
The Hilary Grace Foundation Inc$1,50011%
Hope Rises INC$1,50011%
Samaritan House Inc$80010%
Bestself Foundation Inc$50010%
The 11 Day Power Play Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($427k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBuffalo Urban League Inc: $81,074 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGofundmeorg: $6,512 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrusted Gives Inc: $3,775 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBootsector: $3,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBuffalo & Erie County Historical Society: $2,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEcmc Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCompass House: $2,060 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hilary Grace Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHope Rises INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSamaritan House Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBestself Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe 11 Day Power Play Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

The Osc Charitable FoundationNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Osc Charitable Foundation · New Era Cap Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc

How much does Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc give?
Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $38,339 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (15%), Health (6%), Religion (3%).
Who are Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Buffalo Urban League Inc ($81k), Gofundmeorg ($7k), Erie County Medical Center Corp ($5k).
Does Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Osc Charitable Foundation, New Era Cap Foundation, The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation.
Where is Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc based?
Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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