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Hale Thornhill Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$359k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$328k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

91% of Hale Thornhill Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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31
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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.2MHuman Services$172kArts & Culture$162kHealth$130kAnimals$70kEducation$69kInternational$62kPublic Benefit$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
  • $250k+1 grant · $328k
$250
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING$327,626
J PAUL GETTY TRUST$27,534
Individual grant recipient$1,000
ST RAPHAEL SCHOOL$500
ASPCA$500
SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF NAZARETHUSA INC$500
BEAUFORT HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC$250
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$250
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$200
US DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION$200
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS$150
DREAM STREET FOUNDATION$100
GUIDE DOGS For the BLIND$100
SPCA OF WAKE COUNTY$50
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $500 → 7%THE COLLEAGUES: $7k → 14%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $500 → 7%LOS ANGELES ORPHANAGE GUILD: $2k → 14%WORD HONOR FUND: $300 → 7%LOS ANGELES ORPHANAGE GUILD: $750 → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $250 → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%CHARITYWATER: $500 → 17%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $500 → 14%UPLIFT FAMILY SERVICES: $200 → 14%DREAM STREET FOUNDATION: $100 → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $11k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $8k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $8k → 14%ST ANNE'S: $2k → 14%ST ANNE'S: $750 → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $30k → 14%DREAM STREET FOUNDATION: $300 → 14%DREAM STREET FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $850 → 14%THE CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $14k → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $50k → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $30k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$531k · 42 repeat orgs$229k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
81

Total granted

$531k
$229k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+30%

Still filing today

71%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SW
    SAVING WILDLIFE INTERNATIONAL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue +93% · 28% of their budget
  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
    3× · 2018–2022 · $32k · revenue +81%
  • CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $26k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • SH
    SCRUB HUB FOR HEROES
    one grant, 2020 · $58k
  • Conservative Partnership Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +77%
  • PC
    PACIFIC COUNCIL
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
4
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
7
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
8
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

—
9
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
10
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
11
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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12
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is The J Paul Getty Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 126 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/78
Grantees still filing
52/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,232,788 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $110,136 · PhilanthropySCRUB HUB FOR HEROES: $58,350 · OtherSCRUB HUB…MOCA: $19,450 · OtherMOCAPACIFIC COUNCIL: $15,000 · OtherPACIFIC C…PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA: $10,000 · OtherST VINCENT MEALS ON WHEELS: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,700 · OtherLOS ANGELES BALLET INC: $10,000 · Other+71 more: $109,759 · Other+71 moreTHE COLLEAGUES INC: $132,477 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $9,500 · Human Services+11 more: $10,996 · Human ServicesConservative Partnership Institute: $25,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $11,500 · EducationSAINT MARYS SCHOOL: $9,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · Education+6 more: $5,200 · EducationSAVING WILDLIFE INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 · AnimalsPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,000 · Animals+6 more: $1,200 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $32,000 · InternationalPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY: $25,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,500 · International+1 more: $100 · InternationalHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthANGELS AT RISK: $2,000 · Health+3 more: $1,450 · Health
Philanthropy$2,342,924Other$241,259Human Services$178,973Education$77,200Animals$69,200International$59,600Health$44,450

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,232,788 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEAGUES INC: $132,477 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $110,136 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING WILDLIFE INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $11,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES BALLET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT MARYS SCHOOL: $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTRIVE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MARYVALE GUILD: $2,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST COAST ELITE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Anne's Family Services: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS AT RISK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN GROUPS: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWord of Honor Fund: $1,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarmony Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRACE TO ERASE MS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE AUXILIARY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetL A THEATRE WORKS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJESUIT RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $996 over 7y, 0.0% of budget
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEAGUES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds SAVING WILDLIFE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds STRIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MARYVALE GUILD ↗
  • Who funds THE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC ↗
  • Who funds SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY ↗

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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…Klm FoundationWm Keck FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…The Rose Hills Founda…Lear Family FoundationBell Koonce Burnette …Jewish Community Foun…Weingart FoundationTriangle Community Fo…The Annenberg Foundat…
California Community FoundationCA33.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Klm Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Lear Family Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Weingart Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Annenberg Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hale Thornhill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hale Thornhill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hale Thornhill Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hale Thornhill 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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