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Alex Thoresen Legacy Foundation at a glance

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Alex Thoresen Legacy Foundation

To provide support to non profit agencies within the local community

$17k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Education$23kYouth Development$16kHuman Services$9kPublic Benefit$7kCrime & Legal$5kHealth$3kFood & Nutrition$2kHousing & Shelter$2k
02FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$294k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INOVA HOSPITAL$3,000
PETOSKEY HS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
A PLACE OF REFUGE$1,500
BRIDGE COMMUNITIES$1,500
TUTORING CHICAGO$1,500
CENTER ON HALSTEAD$1,500
KITCHEN POSSIBLE$1,500
CULINARY CARES$1,500
MI CENTER FOR CIVIC EDUCATION$1,500
MIDVALE COMM LUTHERAN CHURCH$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT: $1k → 21%CENTER ON HALSTED: $5k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTEAD: $2k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36k · 4 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$36k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+231%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AP
    A Place of Refuge
    3× · 2021–2023 · $14k · revenue +12% · 31% of their budget
  • TC
    TUTORING CHICAGO
    3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +15%
  • CO
    Center on Halsted
    3× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • CO
    CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +34%
  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • MH
    MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Community Education Commission

CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education
2
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education
3
Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition
4
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
5
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County

CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.

Crime & Legal
6
Children's Advocates for Change

Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…

Human Services
7
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
8
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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9
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
10
California Alliance of Caregivers

California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…

Health
11
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
12
Chicago Christian Counseling Center

To promote healing and wholeness through professional counseling, consultation and education from a Christian perspective

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge Communities Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Michigan Center for Civic Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Michigan Center for Civic Education: $6,500 · OtherThe Michigan Center for Civic EducationMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYINOVA HOSPITAL: $3,000 · OtherINOVA HOSPITALMARIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $2,500 · OtherMARIAN HIGH SCHOOLPETOSKEY HS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherPETOSKEY HS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONBROTHER RICE HIGH SCHOOL: $2,000 · OtherBROTHER RICE HIGH SCHOOLBR RICE HIGH SCHOOL: $2,000 · OtherBR RICE HIGH SCHOOLMIDVALE COMM LUTHERAN CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherA Place of Refuge: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentA Place of RefugeKitchen Possible Inc: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentKitchen Possible IncCenter on Halsted: $7,500 · Human ServicesCenter on Hals…THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHRIST CHI…TUTORING CHICAGO: $8,000 · Arts & CultureTUTORING CHICA…CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalCulinary Care: $1,500 · Food & NutritionBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $1,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$24,500Youth Development$15,500Human Services$8,500Arts & Culture$8,000Crime & Legal$5,000Food & Nutrition$1,500Housing & Shelter$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA Place of Refuge: $14,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetTUTORING CHICAGO: $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Michigan Center for Civic Education: $6,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCulinary Care: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKitchen Possible Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alex Thoresen Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alex Thoresen Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 16 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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