· Private foundation
The Suzie S Thorn Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Up on Top | $9,250 |
| Cooperative Restraining Order Clinc | $9,250 |
| Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center | $7,450 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Meals on Wheels Diablo Region | $3,850 |
| ICCFR Trust | $1,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +46% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTelegraph Hill Neighborhood Association5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +53%
DONALDINA CAMERON HOUSE5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +70%- USURBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO7× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +10%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
The organization provides free one-on-one tutoring and acamdimic mentorship program for underserved k-12 students in the community volunteers,mentors and students from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds met weekly to learn…
PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Ayc's mission is to meet the educational and social service needs of low-income, immigrant, at-risk, and adjudicated youth and families of all ethnicities, with a special cultural and linguistic competence with asian americans. by…
In the tenderloin, we provide a trusted gathering place and creatively offer as many elements of home possible for our neighbors.
Tndc's mission is to develop community and provide affordable housing and services for people with low incomes in the tenderloin and throughout san francisco, to promote equitable access to opportunity and resources.
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
See schedule othe mission of the institute on aging is to enhance the quality of life for adults as they age by enabling them to maintain their health, well being, independence and participation in the community. ioa fulfills this mission…
To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other…
Enable frail seniors to maintain their independence at home by providing them with high quality, nutritious meals that are cost effective, prepared in West Contra Costa County, delivered by caring drivers and administered by local…
Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 30 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
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.
- Who funds Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association ↗
- Who funds Mary Elizabeth Inn The ↗
- Who funds DONALDINA CAMERON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds UP ON TOP ↗
- Who funds SPARK PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds OVERCOMING BARRIERS INC ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION ↗
- Who funds Peralta Colleges Foundation ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Suzie S Thorn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Suzie S Thorn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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