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Wm Bryce Thompson Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
MCCARTER THEATRE$1,000
Redline Contemporary Art Center$1,000
PINK LADIES OF HUNTERDON COUNTY$1,000
D R GREENWAY LAND TRUST$1,000
FLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION$615
PRINCETON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$540
PIKE FOUNDATION$525
C-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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CO
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MD
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NC
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DC
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
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.

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%
  • PA
    PRINCETON AREA COMMUNITY FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • CF
    Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +26%
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.

04Its field

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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/50
Grantees still filing
35/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…Amazon Watch Inc: $1,500 · EnvironmentNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $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 INCPRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationPRINCETON NURSER…DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP: $2,500 · EducationDENVER BIENNIAL …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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMWELL VALLEY HOUNDS: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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 budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $1,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM: $1,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRENTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $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 budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wm Bryce Thompson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wm Bryce Thompson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 83 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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