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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$65MEnvironment$9.2MEducation$3.2MHousing & Shelter$1.2MAnimals$921kPhilanthropy$100kHealth$100kInternational$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL: $100k → 13%FENIMORE ART MUSEUM: $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
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

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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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 36% of Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 20% of the giving stays in NM; by stated purpose, 17%.

Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of New Mexico Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
35/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetFIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 6.9% 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 budgetSCOTT'S HOUSE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% 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 budgetNEW VILLAGE ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetSky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCORNERSTONES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: $21,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPublic Radio for the Front Range: $17,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGRAVITY WATER: $15,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARK TRUST INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SPANISH COLONIAL ARTS SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHEN ANGELS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHermits Peak Watershed Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $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
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.

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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…Lannan FoundationBolene Charitable Tru…Thornburg FoundationNancy Ann Mellen Foun…The Frost FoundationC & I Roybal Charitab…Slf FoundationThe Ark FoundationHanuman FoundationLineberry FoundationBattelle Memorial Ins…
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

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 Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • Five Points Center for the Visual Arts Inc: 75% of income from government
  • National Park Trust Inc: 51% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 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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