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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.
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 $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $173k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| I GOT THIS FOUNDATION | $41,450 |
| ISRAAID | $29,205 |
| ALLEY-OOP KIDS | $27,745 |
| PALESTINE CHILDRENS'S RELIEF FUND (PCRF) | $26,556 |
| MBC TRAVELERS | $25,320 |
| ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | $12,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | $10,000 |
| DISASTER RELIEF GRANT 1 | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $1,650 |
| BARUCH COLLEGE | $1,575 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +41% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
185 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 181 since wound down; 6 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, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC3× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue +13%
- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +25%
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $47k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- DRDisaster Relief Grants (4)one grant, 2018 · $128k
- WRWARRIOR REUNION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $98k · revenue +3%
- DWDIGS WITH DIGNITY CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $63k · revenue +32%
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.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Education and Research
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
205 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. 205 of the 383 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DIGS WITH DIGNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds I Got This Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
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: Ibm International Foundation · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · Ernst & Young Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · Deloitte Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Grant Thornton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grant Thornton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 8% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa: 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
- University of New Haven: 1% of income from government
- Jacksonville University: 1% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc: 1% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
- Rollins College: 0% of income from government
- Oral Roberts University: 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Bentley University: 0% of income from government
- University of Oregon Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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