Application Information

        Thompson Charitable Foundation Letter of Inquiry and grant application process.

The Thompson Charitable Foundation (TCF) holds only one grant-making meeting a year, usually held in the middle of July.  

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

Important: If we do not invite your organization to submit a proposal, we may direct you to apply to one of our regranting partners, depending on the size of your request and which state you operate in. Also, if you are a current grantee and have received three or more consecutive years of funding from us, we may ask you to take a three-year pause before submitting a request for funding.

To be invited to apply, you must first submit a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) through our online portal. The link to our LOI submission portal will be activated between March 1st and 31st. LOI’s submitted outside of this process will not be considered.

Link to LOI Portal: Under Development

In addition to questions regarding your nonprofit status, you will be asked the following: 

• 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 with 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 said counties benefit?
• What amount of grant funding will you request if invited?
• How will our funding make a difference to the people and communities you plan to serve?
• How well-suited is your organization to successfully implement the program?

If you are invited to apply, you will be emailed a link to our application portal. The portal will be open from April 1st to April 30th.  You may not know the status of your request until late July.

We may consider an urgent or emergency request outside of our annual review cycle.  Examples of requests 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 this last example, we will not be able to fund ongoing replacement of any such lost funding.

Please contact us at jeff@thompsoncharitable.org should you require consideration of an out of cycle request.