· Private foundation
George and Louise Thornton Charitable 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.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRONT RANGE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $11,000 |
| OPEN STAGE THEATRE COMPANY | $6,000 |
| BYNUM SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| CSU THEATRE ENDOWMENT | $4,000 |
| GREAT FALLS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| LOVELAND HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| POUDRE HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| BETHESDA CHEVY CHASE IWLA | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| THE TOY GAME AND PUZZLE LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| SIOP FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DEPAUW UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| CHEROKEE TRAIL HIGH SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–22, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OTOpenStage Theatre and Co Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +21%
- SFSIOP FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue ×21
- BSBYNUM SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- NMNORTHERN MISSOURI COMMUNITY FOUNDATone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -85%
- IFIMPALA FUNDone grant, 2020 · $3k
- EOENERGY OUTREACH COLORADOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +258%
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.
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How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 73 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 OpenStage Theatre and Co Inc ↗
- Who funds SIOP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds Team River Runner Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain States Children's Home ↗
- Who funds CASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY INTER CHURCH TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN MISSOURI COMMUNITY FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds CASTLE ROCK SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Whitewater ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE WAMBUI MUNGAI FOUNDATION CO GEORGE S N MUNGAI ↗
- Who funds FORT COLLINS CHILDRENS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Douglas County Youth Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Colorado Gives Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · El Pomar Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Core Electric Cooperative · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · United Way of Larimer County · Libertygives Foundation · Western Union Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George and Louise Thornton Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George and Louise Thornton Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Team River Runner Incorporated: 19% of income from government
- American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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