Application Information

                                                       Please read: NEW FOR 2025

                                         **Letter of Inquiry deadline March 14th 2025**

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The Thompson Charitable Foundation will hold only one board meeting a year.  The date for this year’s meeting has not yet been set.  It will very likely be in mid-Summer – most likely the end of June or beginning of July.  

From now on, applications for funding are by invitation only.  We will give preference to applicants who have already been funded by TCF.  Being a past or present TCF grantee is no guarantee that your organization will be invited.  

To be invited to apply, you must submit a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) by March 14th 2025. Until we have the LOI process active on our application portal, you may email your LOI to jeff@thompsoncharitable.org.       

The LOI must include: 

• Are you a past or current TCF grantee?  If so, when were you funded, for how much, for what purpose, and are you up-to-date on your grant reports?  
• We are geographically restricted based on our charter.  Which of the ten counties we serve in three states will benefit directly from the request? Please see our grantmaking guidelines listed on this website.
• How will residents of those counties benefit?
• How will our funding make a difference?
• How well-suited is your organization to successfully implement the program?
• LOI’s should not be more than one page, written in not less than 11 font.

Our on-line application portal will only be open for invited applicants one month before the application deadline.  Since we don’t have a firm date for our meeting, we decided to open the portal in 2025 from April 1st to the 30th.  You may not know the status of your request until mid-July.

If you are a current grantee and you were counting on a Spring application because your current TCF grant runs out or new funding is needed prior to mid-summer, please contact TCF staff.  In certain cases, we can consider a proposal prior to our mid-Summer meeting.  It is entirely at the Foundation’s discretion if we consider an application outside of the new funding cycle.

We may consider an emergency request outside of our one board meeting review cycle.  Examples of emergencies we might consider include natural or manmade disasters, need for matching funds for a state or federal grant, or an unexpected loss of funding from other sources (note in the last case, we will not be able to fund on-going replacement of any such lost      funding).  Please contact us at jeff@thompsoncharitable.org should you require consideration of an out of cycle request.