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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 Eastside 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL PARTNERS | $3,000 |
| BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA | $3,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| BELLEVUE COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| GOOD NEWS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edgar a Thronson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edgar a Thronson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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