The Thursday Club Foundation
San Diego, CA · EIN 20-1001905. Reported 39 grants totalling $651,526 to 37 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Thursday Club Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a support organization for one specific institution (NTEE T11).
- How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 7% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,337. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $15,517; the smallest was $5,019 and the largest $100,305. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honor Flight San Diego | Coronado, CA | $100,305 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Any Body Can Youth Resorts Foundation | San Diego, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Just Call US Volunteers Dba Youth Assistance Coalition | San Diego, CA | $43,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Star Pal | San Diego, CA | $35,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Balboa Park Activity Center | San Diego, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Barrio Logan College Institute | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sharias Closet | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Therapy Center Inc | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Transfamily Support Services | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Larry Himmels Neighborhood Foundation Inc | San Diego, CA | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Diego Refugee Tutoring | San Diego, CA | $15,517 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Prophet World Beat Productions | San Diego, CA | $15,337 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Just in Time for Foster Youth | San Diego, CA | $15,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Connectmed International | Carlsbad, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Goodwill Industries of San Diego County | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Leap to Success Inc | Carlsbad, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Diego Automotive Museum Inc | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Diego Model Railroad Museum Inc | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Angels Foster Family Agency | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank | San Diego, CA | $12,337 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Womens History Reclamation Project Inc | San Diego, CA | $12,337 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Diego Air & Space Museum | San Diego, CA | $11,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Elderhelp of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Navy Marine Corps Proud Foundation Inc | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Village Arts and Education Foundation | San Diego, CA | $9,877 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cura Smiles Inc | San Diego, CA | $9,492 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Resounding Joy Inc | San Diego, CA | $9,399 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Doris a Howell Foundation for Womens Health Research Inc | San Marcos, CA | $8,850 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Girls Rising | San Diego, CA | $8,850 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Diego Junior Theatre | San Diego, CA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Big Sister League of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $8,338 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Diego Civic Youth Ballet Inc | San Diego, CA | $7,921 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Diego Historical Society | San Diego, CA | $7,876 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Voices for Children | San Diego, CA | $7,358 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shoreline Community Services | San Diego, CA | $6,370 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mainly Mozart Inc | San Diego, CA | $6,143 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Spreckels Organ Society | San Diego, CA | $5,019 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
2 of 37 (5%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 37 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 11 | $220,805 | $12,337 |
| 2022 | 15 | $212,502 | $9,492 |
| 2023 | 13 | $218,219 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,337 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Thursday Club Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1224 Santa Barbara Street, San Diego, CA, 92107.
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