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Worth Thomas Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$39k
Granted FY2021
11
Grants FY2021
9
Organizations funded FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$16,000
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$3k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tougaloo College$16,00010%
Mississippi Food Network Inc$1,00010%
Links Inc Links Inc Lefleurs Bluff Chapter$1,00012%
Mississippi Economic Council$30010%
Men of Honor$2001n/a
100 Black Men of Jackson Inc$10010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

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.

WK Kellogg FoundationMI13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · 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 Worth Thomas Foundation

How much does Worth Thomas Foundation give?
Worth Thomas Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $38,600 in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Worth Thomas Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (73%), Community Improvement (14%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
Who are Worth Thomas Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Tougaloo College ($16k), Mississippi Food Network Inc ($1k), Links Inc Links Inc Lefleurs Bluff Chapter ($1k).
Does Worth Thomas Foundation 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 Worth Thomas Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include WK Kellogg Foundation, Enterprise Holdings Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Worth Thomas Foundation based?
Worth Thomas Foundation is based in MS.

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 11 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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