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Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$70k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,400
Largest grant, FY2024
$26,250
Organizations funded a year
12 to 17
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
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 arriving16$70k31%
FY202315$70k33%
FY202212$72k0%
FY202115$66k33%
FY202017$98k35%
FY201913$72k31%
FY201813$66kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$514k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
IN
OH
PA
UT
MO
KS

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Westminster College$29,32540%
Lincoln University$16,0506n/a
William Woods University$11,85040%
Missouri Valley College$9,85040%
Columbia College$8,35050%
Central Methodist University$5,15040%
Lindenwood Education System$3,65020%
Culinary Institute of America$2,50010%
University of Pittsburgh$2,50010%
Washington University$2,40010%
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All grantees of Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Westminster College$29,32540%
Lincoln University$16,0506n/a
William Woods University$11,85040%
Missouri Valley College$9,85040%
Columbia College$8,35050%
Central Methodist University$5,15040%
Lindenwood Education System$3,65020%
Culinary Institute of America$2,50010%
University of Pittsburgh$2,50010%
Washington University$2,40010%
Park University$2,40010%
Carnegie Mellon University$2,40010%
Brigham Young University$2,0252n/a
A T Still University of Health Sciences$1,35010%
Webster University$1,20010%
Tiffin University$1,20020%
Southwest Baptist University$1,20010%
Northwest Lineman College$9001n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$6501n/a

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($409k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWestminster College: $29,325 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Woods University: $11,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Valley College: $9,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College: $8,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Methodist University: $5,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLindenwood Education System: $3,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCulinary Institute of America: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington University: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPark University: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA T Still University of Health Sciences: $1,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWebster University: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTiffin University: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwest Baptist University: $1,200 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 15.

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.

Tulsa Community FoundationOK22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust · Griffin Family Foundation Inc · Missouri Colleges Fund Inc · Jack J Isgur Foundation · Bour Memorial Scholarship Fund American National Bank of Texas · The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · William Edgar Charitable Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Porter Edwin M Educational Fund · Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust

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 Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust

How much does Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust give?
Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust reported 16 grants totaling $70,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Westminster College ($29k), Lincoln University ($16k), William Woods University ($12k).
Does Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust, Griffin Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust based?
Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust is based in MO.

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 38 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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