California · Private foundation
Flora L Thornton Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 67
- Grants FY2024
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $140,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 90
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $34M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Flora L Thornton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 65 | $2.1M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $2.3M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $2.3M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $2.0M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $2.2M | 27% |
| FY2019 | 90 | $2.3M | 40% |
| FY2018 | 73 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space | $720,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association | $587,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $550,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Rainforest Alliance Inc | $475,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Rare | $465,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Library Foundation of Los Angeles | $435,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Center for Environmental Health | $420,000 | 7 | 2% |
| As You Sow | $390,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Population Media Center Inc | $390,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $370,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 117 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Flora L Thornton Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 112 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Laney and Pasha Thornton Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Mary a Crocker Trust · McNabb Foundation
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Flora L Thornton Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Flora L Thornton Foundation 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.
About Flora L Thornton Foundation
- How much does Flora L Thornton Foundation give?
- Flora L Thornton Foundation reported 67 grants totaling $2,222,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 90 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Flora L Thornton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (39%), Education (12%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Flora L Thornton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space ($720k), Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association ($587k), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($550k).
- Does Flora L Thornton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Flora L Thornton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Flora L Thornton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Laney and Pasha Thornton Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Flora L Thornton Foundation based?
- Flora L Thornton Foundation is based in CA.
Play a game based on Flora L Thornton’s filings →