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Shawn Thornton Foundation Inc

The shawn thornton foundation is dedicated to helping find cures for diseases close to shawn's heart, specifically, parkinson's and cancer. The foundation will work towards this mission by raising awareness, funding innovative research and helping to relieve the burden and improve the quality of life for patients and their families.

$25k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$82k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Shawn Thornton Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$25k0%
FY20233$175k33%
FY20222$75k0%
FY20212$125k0%
FY20193$125k0%
FY20183$150k0%
FY20175$145kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$820k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($185k), not named here.

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About Shawn Thornton Foundation Inc

How much does Shawn Thornton Foundation Inc give?
Shawn Thornton Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Shawn Thornton Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are Shawn Thornton Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Children's Hospital Corporation ($350k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($175k), American Parkinson Disease Assoc ($100k).
Does Shawn Thornton Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Shawn Thornton Foundation Inc based?
Shawn Thornton Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 6 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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