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Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust

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.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$16M
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$60MHousing & Shelter$5.1MEnvironment$4.2MPhilanthropy$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.1MEducation$803kHealth$100kInternational$95kAnimals$64kOther$7.5M
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $16M
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FENIMORE ART MUSEUM$15,907,000
SANTA FE PRO MUSICA$50,000
TARGHEE MUSIC FOUNDATION$30,240
ELBOW ROOM$30,000
SIGNS FOR HOPE$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION$20,000
BOSQUE DEL APACHE WILDLIFE REFUGE$10,000
GALISTEO BASIN OPEN SPACE PRESERVE$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $1.2M → 12%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY: $50k → 16%HRDC: $550k → 10%FRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN: $1.0M → 10%FENIMORE ART MUSEUM: $18.2M → 13%COMMONWEAL CONSERVANCY: $5.0M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION: $137k → 13%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $860k → 14%HRDC: $500k → 10%FENIMORE ART MUSEUM: $15.9M → 13%MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM: $181k → 17%NM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ART INSTITUTE: $1.9M → 12%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $460k → 14%FENIMORE ART MUSEUM: $4.1M → 13%MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM: $179k → 17%HISTORIC SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 12%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $60k → 14%FENIMORE ART MUSEUM: $1.0M → 13%MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM: $87k → 17%LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $1.5M → 12%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $60k → 14%SUSQUEHANNA ANIMAL SHELTER: $300k → 13%MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM: $65k → 17%RADIUS BOOKS: $1.1M → 12%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $60k → 14%SUSQUEHANNA ANIMAL SHELTER: $227k → 13%MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM: $52k → 17%NM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ART INSTITUTE: $1.0M → 12%SUSQUEHANNA ANIMAL SHELTER: $200k → 13%NM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ART INSTITUTE: $200k → 12%GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL: $200k → 13%MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%FENIMORE ART MUSEUM: $153k → 13%GALISTEO BASIN OPEN SPACE PRESERVE: $50k → 12%FENIMORE ART MUSEUM: $100k → 13%GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL: $100k → 13%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4.0M → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3.0M → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2.4M → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1.0M → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $101k → 17%INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER: $75k → 12%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1.0M → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1.0M → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1.0M → 17%SCOTT'S HOUSE: $100k → 12%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1.0M → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1.0M → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 36% of Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 20% of the giving stays in NM; read by stated purpose it is 17% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$71M · 26 repeat orgs$8.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
39

Total granted

$71M
$8.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+34%

Still filing today

73%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationAnimalsInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • FA
    FENIMORE ART MUSEUM
    7× · 2017–2024 · $39M · revenue +193% · 83% of their budget
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2018–2022 · $10M · revenue +58%
  • SF
    SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST
    3× · 2019–2021 · $2.9M · revenue +104% · 65% of their budget

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMONWEAL CONSERVANCY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +34%
  • LP
    LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue +416% · 54% of their budget
  • SA
    STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.2M · revenue +84%

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

04Your field

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.

1
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
2
Santa Fe Botanical Garden

The santa fe botanical garden celebrates, cultivates and conserves the rich botanical heritage and biodiversity of our region. in partnership with nature, we demonstrate our commitment through education, science, conservation, community…

Environment
3
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
4
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States

Impart knowledge and appreciation of humanity's relationship with wildlife through art.

Arts & Culture
6
Casa Dolores Co Claudia Mclaughlin
Arts & Culture
7
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
8
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
9
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
10
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
12
San Antonio Museum of Art

The San Antonio Museum of Art brings people together with art by collecting, preserving, and presenting significant works of art representing a broad range of history and cultures, advancing human connection and understanding, and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of New Mexico Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Galisteo Basin Open Space Preserve. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Health Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity College Foundatio…Community Arts CentersEquine Therapy ProgramsLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%71%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,706

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

53 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
35/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FENIMORE ART MUSEUM — $39,492,565 · Arts & CultureFENIMORE ART MUSEUMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $10,498,200 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTAmerican Museum of Natural History — $5,000,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History+18 more — $4,532,790 · Arts & Culture+18 moreNM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ART INSTITUTE — $3,150,000 · OtherNM SCHOOL …Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc — $1,586,067 · OtherHistoric S…HRDC — $1,050,000 · OtherHRDCSUSQUEHANNA ANIMAL SHELTER — $726,700 · OtherSUSQUEHANN…GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL — $350,000 · Other+30 more — $861,860 · Other+30 moreCOMMONWEAL CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $115,000 · Housing & ShelterSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST — $2,853,192 · EnvironmentGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $1,265,000 · Environment+3 more — $71,179 · EnvironmentLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $1,500,000 · PhilanthropySANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN INC — $1,094,000 · Community ImprovementThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $636,521 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC — $157,000 · Education+2 more — $9,950 · Education
Arts & Culture$59,523,555Other$7,724,627Housing & Shelter$5,115,000Environment$4,189,371Philanthropy$1,600,000Community Improvement$1,094,000Education$803,471

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFENIMORE ART MUSEUM — $39,492,565 over 7y, 83% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $10,498,200 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $5,000,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST — $2,853,192 over 3y, 65% of budgetHistoric Santa Fe Foundation Inc — $1,586,067 over 3y, 83% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $1,532,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $1,500,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $1,265,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetRADIUS BOOKS INC — $1,150,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetFRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN INC — $1,094,000 over 6y, 75% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $636,521 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC — $157,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC — $115,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSANTA FE PRO MUSICA INC — $100,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetFIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetSCOTT'S HOUSE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNUEVO MEXICO PROFUNDO — $80,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetThe Frick Collection — $67,820 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetElbow Room — $60,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetGALISTEO BASIN OPEN SPACE PRESERVE — $50,679 over 2y, 100% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMBUDO VALLEY LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $34,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEsperanza Shelter Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW VILLAGE ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetSky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary — $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSigns for Hope Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCORNERSTONES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS — $21,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPublic Radio for the Front Range — $17,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGRAVITY WATER — $15,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL PARK TRUST INC — $10,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKITCHEN ANGELS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SPANISH COLONIAL ARTS SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHermits Peak Watershed Alliance — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC — $7,290 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM39.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Lannan Foundation · Bolene Charitable Trust · Thornburg Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Frost Foundation · C & I Roybal Charitable Foundation · Slf Foundation · The Ark Foundation · Hanuman Foundation · Lineberry Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute

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 Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 51%
  • Five Points Center for the Visual Arts Inc75% of income from government
  • National Park Trust Inc51% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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