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Edgar a Thronson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
80% of Edgar a Thronson Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to East Side Community Learning Center Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Edgar a Thronson Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $131k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k6 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARROLL UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| CANINES ASSISTING SERVICE HEROES | $24,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF ST PETER | $15,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA | $3,000 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL PARTNERS | $3,000 |
| BELLEVUE COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| GOOD NEWS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRY | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CUCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $400k · revenue +18%
- DADELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +91%
- KNKALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $42k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- BMBIGGS MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2021 · $3k
- JKJERRY K GROSSMAN SOCIAL JUSTICE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Delaware spca is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty and the encouragement of humane treatment of all animals.
The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.
The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history and technology of delaware and the delmarva peninsula's farm life/culture and to offer public education programs and services related to aspects of the…
To aggressively promote investment in muncie-delaware county which will result in the creation and retention of quality job opportunities and enhance the quality of life in our community.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Delaware nature society connects people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.
The friends of the delaware canal is an independent, non-profit organization working to restore, preserve, and improve the delaware canal and its surroundings.
The providence animal center is dedicated to intervention and prevention policies to promote companion animal welfare and provide support services to their caregivers and the community.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Delaware valley golden retriever rescue provides new beginnings for displaced golden retrievers, and other golden-hearted dogs, along with a full array of adoptive and educational support for the adopters and broader community.
Full-service animal shelter, animal care, adoptive services, humane investigaation services and humane education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Humane Association and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CARROLL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA ↗
- Who funds EDGEMOOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OLD BRANDYWINE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Marmot Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Edgar a Thronson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Old Brandywine Village Inc — 76% of income from government
- Edgemoor Community Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Historical Society of Delaware — 18% of income from government
- Faithful Friends Inc — 15% of income from government
- Humane Animal Partners — 14% of income from government
- Kalmar Nyckel Foundation — 14% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc — 3% of income from government
- Leadership Delaware Inc — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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