How much did GRANT THORNTON FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of GRANT THORNTON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

education institution

2020

education institution

2021

empowerimpairments golfpromoting racialracial justicejustice equalityeducational institutional

2022

educational institutionalpromoting racialracial justicejustice equality

2023

promoting racialracial justicejustice equalityeducational institutional

2024

educational institutionalrelief

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k6 grants · $161k
$50k–250k3 grants · $263k

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$330k

Total assets

Largest grants

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$100,000
THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND$100,000
DIGS WITH DIGNITY$63,411
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$40,000
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY$35,000
FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT$30,025
MASSCPAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$25,000
WOMEN IN TRAINING$20,225
BARUCH COLLEGE$11,000
MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000

02The need

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 (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 89% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.8M · 162 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

162 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 157 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

162

191

Total granted

$2.8M

$930k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+26%

Still filing today

46%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

TM
THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND
3× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue +294%
SP
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
3× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue +39%
AS
Appalachian State University Foundation Inc
5× · 2018–2023 · $87k · revenue +14%

Funded once

DR
Disaster Relief Grants (4)
one grant, 2018 · $128k
WR
WARRIOR REUNION FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $98k · revenue +240%
FF
FSU Foundation Inc
one grant, 2019 · $34k

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.

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.

Education

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

Upper Iowa University

Upper iowa university provides quality educational opportunities accessible through varied delivery methods to inspire success and empower lives.

Education

Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education

Union University

Union University provides Christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education

William Penn University

William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.

Education

Kansas City University

Kcu is a community of professionals committed to excellence in the education of highly qualified students in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine and health professions.

Education

The University of Findlay

The mission of The University of Findlay is to equip our students for meaningful lives and productive careers.

Education

Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.

Education

Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific University is a Christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.

Education

University of Florida

To assist the university of florida in funding of research & development through grants & contractual arrangements & in the commercialization of intellectual properties, which include inventions, discoveries, processes, & work products.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is The Tower Foundation of San Jose. 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.

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 68 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/195

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,370

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

185 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

185/185

Grantees still filing

148/185

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,134,948Education$1,267,030Crime & Legal$300,000Public Benefit$99,362Health$44,900Philanthropy$25,600Community Improvement$20,425

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

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.

Ibm International FoundationNY40.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Ernst & Young Foundation · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Deloitte Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · United Way Worldwide · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Fidelity Foundation · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

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 organisation GRANT THORNTON FOUNDATION 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: University of Virginia.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 541197326 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on University of Virginia, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 82% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Grant Thornton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Grant Thornton Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GRANT THORNTON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

185 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Grant Thornton Foundation?

More from the funding graph

GRANT THORNTON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

185 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Grant Thornton Foundation?

More from the funding graph