Texas · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES
CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,190,000 to it, the largest being THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Knights of Columbusshared fundersportfolio match
- Mercy Works Foundationshared funders
- Florence Gould Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $80k → $530k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 63% · 2020 49% · 2021 83% · 2022 90% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $940k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Knights of Columbusshared fundersportfolio matchCT · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mercy Works Foundationshared fundersWI · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- Florence Gould Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Budnik Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ortner Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peck Stacpoole Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hitz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elbrun & Peter Kimmelman Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mrs Giles Whiting Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Casillas Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES?
- CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,190,000 to it, the largest being THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,190,000 in grants to CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES?
- THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR THOMAS MORE STUDIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing