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E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn) at a glance

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E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn)

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
96
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$235k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.8MArts & Culture$3.0MRecreation & Sports$2.7MEnvironment$729kYouth Development$670kHealth$591kReligion$454kPhilanthropy$265kOther$0
02FY2024 · 96 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $160k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $639k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOX AMA DEUS$235,000
ST JAMES SCHOOL$200,000
US TENNIS COURT ASSOCATION$115,000
RECTORY SCHOOL$105,000
US COURT TENNIS PRESERVATION FDN$85,000
AIM ACADEMY$75,500
AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL$75,000
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA$72,500
PA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS$70,500
MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOCIATION$60,000
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BABSON CENTER$50,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN$50,000
WOODS HOLE OCEANIC INSTITUTION$50,000
SCH ACADEMY$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $10k → 17%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $1k → 7%COMFORT CASES: $2k → 8%COMFORT CASES: $500 → 8%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%COMFORT CASES: $500 → 8%COMFORT CASES: $300 → 8%COMFORT CASES: $250 → 8%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CHARITY: $1k → 6%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CHARITY: $1k → 6%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CHARITY: $1k → 6%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CHARITY: $1k → 6%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CHARITY: $1k → 6%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CHARITY: $1k → 6%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 129 repeat orgs$301k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

129 repeat relationships: 85 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
40

Total granted

$13M
$237k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+21%

Still filing today

57%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SJ
    SAINT JAMES SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +25%
  • VA
    VOX AMA DEUS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +20% · 35% of their budget
  • AO
    AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $535k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JESTERS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -11% · 60% of their budget
  • INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • TH
    THE HILL SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +44%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
6
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education
7
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
8
Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy

Together, we teach and learn skills that foster the courage to discover our voices, develop old and new passions, practice balance in the pursuit of excellence, and collaborate in building vibrant,inclusive, and sustainable communities.

Education
9
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rectory School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Andalusia Foundation. 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

110 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. 110 of the 182 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/110
Grantees still filing
90/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

US COURT TENNIS PRESERVATION FDN: $2,343,900 · OtherUS COURT TENNIS PRESERVATION FDNVOX AMA DEUS: $1,245,000 · OtherVOX AMA DEUSPA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $526,500 · OtherPA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTSVALIANT AIR COMMAND WARBIRD MUSEUM: $295,000 · OtherSCH ACADEMY: $260,000 · Other+107 more: $2,838,654 · Other+107 moreSAINT JAMES SCHOOL: $1,700,000 · EducationSAINT JAMES SCHOOLAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $535,000 · EducationAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INCTHE RECTORY SCHOOL INC: $490,000 · EducationTHE RECTORY SCHOOL INCACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $315,500 · EducationACADEMY IN MANAYUNKTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $250,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNS…+25 more: $1,093,500 · Education+25 moreFriends of Acadia: $243,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $159,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $128,500 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $32,500 · Environment+3 more: $31,000 · EnvironmentNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $170,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $145,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of Art: $103,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $52,435 · Arts & CultureEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: $38,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $32,844 · Arts & CultureTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $130,000 · HealthMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $122,000 · HealthMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC: $90,000 · HealthMain Line Hospitals Inc: $90,000 · HealthINDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $20,000 · Health+4 more: $26,000 · HealthMIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION INC: $64,050 · Recreation & SportsTHE JESTERS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTHEAST HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL: $19,000 · Recreation & SportsBEATRIX FARRAND GARDEN ASSOC INC: $17,000 · Recreation & SportsNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CLUB: $82,000 · Youth DevelopmentPETER'S PLACE: $25,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$7,509,054Education$4,384,000Environment$594,000Arts & Culture$541,279Health$523,000Recreation & Sports$150,050Youth Development$108,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT JAMES SCHOOL: $1,700,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetVOX AMA DEUS: $1,245,000 over 8y, 35% of budgetAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $535,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RECTORY SCHOOL INC: $490,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $315,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $243,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetHistorical Society of Pennsylvania: $217,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $170,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $159,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetANDALUSIA FOUNDATION: $147,474 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $145,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $130,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $128,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $122,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $115,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $112,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $103,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFoxcroft School: $102,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY: $97,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $95,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC: $90,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetMain Line Hospitals Inc: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRENBROOK SCHOOL INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CLUB: $82,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $78,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $76,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $72,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION INC: $64,050 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST: $53,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $52,435 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $51,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JESTERS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $39,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: $38,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMARET SCHOOL INC: $37,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHANLEY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $32,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPETER'S PLACE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetINDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC: $22,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $22,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds VOX AMA DEUS ↗
  • Who funds AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
  • Who funds Historical Society of Pennsylvania ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ANDALUSIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
  • Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
  • Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds Main Line Hospitals Inc ↗
  • Who funds RENBROOK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CLUB ↗
  • Who funds THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗

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.

Colket Family Foundat…Ethel D Colket Founda…Hamilton Family Found…Cornelia Cogswell Ros…Florence V Burden Fou…The Philadelphia Foun…Gerrish H Milliken Fo…Maine Community Found…Chubb Charitable Foun…Diana Davis Spencer F…Connelly FoundationThe Howard Johnson Fo…
Colket Family FoundationPA36.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colket Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Florence V Burden Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · Connelly Foundation · The Howard Johnson 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 E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • The Rectory School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Kingswood Oxford School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Comfort Cases Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 182 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home