Illinois · Private foundation
Grant Thornton 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.
- $181k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,320
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $41,450
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 186
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $224k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Grant Thornton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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 | 10 | $181k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $430k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $479k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $279k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 179 | $736k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 181 | $802k | 59% |
| FY2018 | 186 | $1.1M | 17% |
| FY2017 | 181 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurgood Marshall College Fund | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Brigham Young University | $112,375 | 4 | n/a |
| Michigan State University | $103,678 | 5 | n/a |
| Warrior Reunion Foundation | $98,012 | 1 | 17% |
| Depaul University | $74,949 | 4 | 0% |
| Florida State University | $74,150 | 3 | n/a |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $67,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Digs With Dignity Corporation | $63,411 | 1 | 9% |
| University of Utah | $50,350 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 218 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 154 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Grant Thornton Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Grant Thornton Foundation
- How much does Grant Thornton Foundation give?
- Grant Thornton Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $181,301 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 186 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Grant Thornton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (82%), Civil Rights (6%), Public Safety & Disaster (3%).
- Who are Grant Thornton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Thurgood Marshall College Fund ($300k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($300k), Brigham Young University ($112k).
- Does Grant Thornton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Grant Thornton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Grant Thornton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ibm International Foundation, Kpmg US Foundation Inc, Ernst & Young Foundation.
- Where is Grant Thornton Foundation based?
- Grant Thornton Foundation is based in IL.
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