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Wm Bryce Thompson 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.

$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$50kEducation$42kArts & Culture$34kYouth Development$21kHuman Services$16kPhilanthropy$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$469k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GERARD'S HOUSE$4,040
FRIENDS OF PRINCETON OPEN SPACE$4,040
BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF M$2,040
STUDIO RT 29$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,592
Hibiscus Children Center$1,250
Redline Contemporary Art Center$1,000
D R GREENWAY LAND TRUST$1,000
MCCARTER THEATRE$1,000
PINK LADIES OF HUNTERDON COUNTY$1,000
FLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION$615
PRINCETON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$540
PIKE FOUNDATION$525
C-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DENVER CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%SEND HUNGER PACKING PRINCETON: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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NY
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NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
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SC
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$153k · 35 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
35

Total granted

$153k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+19%

Still filing today

66%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TB
    THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $21k · revenue +52%
  • SC
    SOURLAND CONSERVANCY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $19k · revenue +133%
  • BA
    BLAIR ACADEMY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • TD
    The Denver Children's Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +27%
  • CF
    Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +26%
  • PA
    PRINCETON AREA COMMUNITY FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
2
The Princeton Festival a Nj Non-Profit Corporation

To enrich the communities we serve through a multi-dimensional, world-class performing arts summer festival. We create programs that excite, inform, inspire, and invite discovery and engagement as we aspire to become a nationally…

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3
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
6
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
7
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
8
Princeton University Press

Our fundamental mission is to bring scholarly ideas to the world. we publish books that connect authors and readers across spheres of knowledge to advance and enrich the human conversation. we embrace the highest standards in our…

Arts & Culture
9
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
12
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation

Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Amwell Valley Hounds. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Food PantriesPregnancy Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsCommunity FoundationsSchool Parent OrganizationsLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr11%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr11%32%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/52
the rest of the field
12%
6,332/52,240

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.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC — $20,850 · OtherTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INCTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $11,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYAMERICAN RED CROSS — $5,620 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSMCCARTER THEATRE — $5,500 · OtherMCCARTER THEATREPink Ladies of Hunterdon County — $5,000 · OtherGERARD'S HOUSE — $4,040 · Other+43 more — $49,912 · Other+43 moreSOURLAND CONSERVANCY — $19,430 · EnvironmentSOURLAND CONSERVA…FRIENDS OF PRINCETON OPEN SPACE — $6,040 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF PRINCE…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $2,300 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEF…FRIENDS OF AMWELL VALLEY HOUNDS — $2,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF AMWELL…NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $1,500 · EnvironmentAmazon Watch Inc — $1,500 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentBLAIR ACADEMY — $10,500 · EducationBLAIR ACADEMYTHE HILL SCHOOL — $7,500 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOLC-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS — $3,100 · EducationC-CHANGE CONVERS…HOMEFRONT INC — $3,000 · EducationHOMEFRONT INCDENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP — $2,500 · EducationDENVER BIENNIAL …PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL — $2,500 · EducationPRINCETON NURSER…Southern Methodist University — $1,500 · Education+2 more — $1,850 · Education+2 morePRINCETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $11,000 · PhilanthropyPRINCETON …Foundation for a Better Puerto Rico Inc — $8,500 · PhilanthropyFoundation…Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc — $1,040 · PhilanthropyHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PRINCETON — $8,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICA…Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc — $2,000 · Arts & CulturePrinceton…ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER — $1,850 · Arts & CultureANDERSON …ASPEN ART MUSEUM — $1,550 · Arts & CultureASPEN ART…MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER — $1,400 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF…The Art Base — $1,100 · Arts & CultureThe Art B…Capital Harmony Works Inc — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCapital H…ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON — $1,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUN…+2 more — $800 · Arts & CultureThe Denver Children's Foundation — $5,000 · Human ServicesSEND HUNGER PACKING PRINCETON — $2,000 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,800 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $2,000 · InternationalHEADKNOWLES FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · International
Other$101,922Environment$33,770Education$32,450Philanthropy$20,540Arts & Culture$18,700Human Services$7,000International$6,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC — $20,850 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSOURLAND CONSERVANCY — $19,430 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPRINCETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLAIR ACADEMY — $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PRINCETON — $8,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PRINCETON OPEN SPACE — $6,040 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Denver Children's Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGERARD'S HOUSE — $4,040 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetC-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS — $3,100 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPrinceton Symphony Orchestra Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMWELL VALLEY HOUNDS — $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER — $1,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM — $1,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRENTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER — $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Base — $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPrinceton Area Community Foundation Inc — $1,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Harmony Works Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUFFIELD ACADEMY — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoothbay Region Land Trust — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $615 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ballroom Cultural Arts Foundation — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Princeton Area Commun…Bristol-Myers Squibb …George H and Estelle …Curtis W McGraw Found…The Robert Wood Johns…The Burke Foundation …The J Robert & Barbar…Tenacre FoundationThe Griffin-Cole FundThe Frank J Ryan and …Leen Foundation IncThe Trustees of Princ…
Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ34.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Burke Foundation Inc · The J Robert & Barbara A Hillier Foundation Inc · Tenacre Foundation · The Griffin-Cole Fund · The Frank J Ryan and Jane E Ryan Family Foundation · Leen Foundation Inc · The Trustees of Princeton University

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 Wm Bryce Thompson 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Arts Council of Princeton — 6% of income from government
  • Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Princeton Nursery School — 4% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Blair Academy — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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