Illinois · Private foundation
Anna W Thornton & Alexander P Thornton
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $91k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Anna W Thornton & Alexander P Thornton funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $91k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $83k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $93k | 58% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $95k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $85k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $78k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $83k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Parenting Center | $73,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Shaken Baby Alliance | $60,084 | 6 | 5% |
| Special Olympics of Texas Inc | $52,351 | 5 | 0% |
| Texas Center for Arts Academics | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewel Charity Ball Incorporated | $33,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Hill School of Fort Worth Inc | $30,500 | 3 | 1% |
| New Key School Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Wings of a Butterfly | $29,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Day Resource Center for Homeless | $28,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star | $22,322 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Anna W Thornton & Alexander P Thornton supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Edith Winther Grace Charitable Trust · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Wm & Catherine Bryce Memorial Fund Xxxxx3001 · Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Anna W Thornton & Alexander P Thornton
- How much does Anna W Thornton & Alexander P Thornton give?
- Anna W Thornton & Alexander P Thornton reported 13 grants totaling $90,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Anna W Thornton & Alexander P Thornton fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Education (25%), Health (12%).
- Who are Anna W Thornton & Alexander P Thornton's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Parenting Center ($73k), The Shaken Baby Alliance ($60k), Special Olympics of Texas Inc ($52k).
- Does Anna W Thornton & Alexander P Thornton fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Anna W Thornton & Alexander P Thornton accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Anna W Thornton & Alexander P Thornton?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Sid W Richardson Foundation.
- Where is Anna W Thornton & Alexander P Thornton based?
- Anna W Thornton & Alexander P Thornton is based in IL.
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