How much does Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable give?

Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable reported 59 grants totaling $2,245,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 60 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Health (13%), Housing & Shelter (12%).

Who are Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ($585k), Direct Relief ($540k), Los Angeles Conservancy ($513k).

Does Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.

Where is Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable based?

Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 59
Grants FY2025: 59
Organizations funded FY2024: 10%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $125,000
Organizations funded a year: 54 to 60; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $39M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	58	$2.2M	10%
FY2024	59	$2.1M	10%
FY2023	58	$2.1M	2%
FY2022	58	$2.5M	5%
FY2021	59	$2.1M	27%
FY2020	54	$2.0M	22%
FY2019	60	$2.0M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.5MHealth$2.0MHousing & Shelter$1.8MYouth Development$1.6MEducation$1.1MAnimals$1.0MEnvironment$969kHuman Services$955kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc	$585,000	7	0%
Direct Relief	$540,000	7	0%
Los Angeles Conservancy	$513,000	7	5%
Music Academy of the West	$485,000	7	1%
The Midnight Mission	$400,000	7	1%
Transition House	$380,000	7	3%
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History	$340,000	7	1%
Lobero Theatre Foundation	$340,000	7	3%
Los Angeles Conservation Corps	$314,000	7	0%
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics	$310,000	6	0%

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All grantees of Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc	$585,000	7	0%
Direct Relief	$540,000	7	0%
Los Angeles Conservancy	$513,000	7	5%
Music Academy of the West	$485,000	7	1%
The Midnight Mission	$400,000	7	1%
Transition House	$380,000	7	3%
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History	$340,000	7	1%
Lobero Theatre Foundation	$340,000	7	3%
Los Angeles Conservation Corps	$314,000	7	0%
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics	$310,000	6	0%
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc	$275,000	7	2%
Santa Barbara Rescue Mission	$275,000	7	2%
Wilderness Youth Project Inc	$275,000	7	2%
Braille Institute of America Inc	$270,000	7	0%
Chrysalis Center	$265,000	7	0%
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network	$265,000	7	3%
California Hospital Medical Center Foundation	$265,000	6	2%
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden	$260,000	7	1%
The California 4-H Foundation	$220,000	7	3%
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association	$220,000	7	1%
Homeboy Industries	$215,000	7	0%
Inner-City Arts	$215,000	6	2%
Elings Park Foundation	$205,000	4	2%
Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc	$200,000	7	3%
Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara	$195,000	7	1%
Santa Ynez Valley Humane Society	$195,000	7	5%
Hospice of Santa Barbara Inc	$190,000	7	1%
Los Angeles Master Chorale Association	$190,000	7	0%
The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College	$190,000	4	0%
Para Los Ninos	$190,000	7	0%
CARE4Paws Inc	$190,000	7	4%
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles	$190,000	7	0%
United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc	$190,000	7	1%
Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc	$185,000	7	1%
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County	$185,000	4	2%
The Santa Barbara Choral Society	$170,000	7	12%
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara	$170,000	6	0%
Santa Barbara Education Foundation	$165,000	6	1%
Path	$165,000	6	0%
Unity Shoppe Inc	$165,000	6	1%
Food From the Heart Inc	$160,000	7	4%
Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association	$135,000	4	0%
Nbcc	$135,000	5	1%
Single Room Occupancy Housing Corporation	$125,000	2	0%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Barbara County	$115,000	4	1%
Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club	$105,000	3	2%
Hillside House	$105,000	3	0%
Opera Santa Barbara	$80,750	4	2%
Downtown Women's Center	$60,000	2	0%
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation	$55,000	2	2%
Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation	$55,000	2	4%
Mental Health Association in Santa Barbara County	$50,000	1	1%
University of California Santa Barbara	$50,000	1	n/a
Los Angeles Trade Technical College Foundation	$30,000	1	17%
BOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC	$25,000	1	4%
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$25,000	1	0%
Santa Maria Valley Humane Society	$25,000	1	1%
Skid Row Housing Trust	$25,000	1	0%
Wildlife Waystation	$15,000	1	1%
Casa del Herrero	$15,000	1	2%
Dog Adoption and Welfare Group	$15,000	1	3%
Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine	$15,000	1	5%
Young Musicians Foundation	$15,000	1	1%
Immigrant Hope Santa Barbara Ca Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Court Appointed Special Advocates	$15,000	1	2%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable supplied at peak.

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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 63.

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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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA63.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Bull Henry W Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · California Community 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 Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable

How much does Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable give?: Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable reported 59 grants totaling $2,245,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 60 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Health (13%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
Who are Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ($585k), Direct Relief ($540k), Los Angeles Conservancy ($513k).
Does Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
Where is Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable based?: Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable is based in TX.