· Private foundation
The Thorne Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k23 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEED GLOBAL HEALTH | $15,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY FORESTRY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME | $5,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $5,000 |
| THOMAS HEYWARD ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| THE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANY | $500 |
| THORNE NATURE EXPERIENCE | $500 |
| CAROLINA GOLD RICE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| JEKYLL ISLAND FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CARNEGIE COUNCIL | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Brookgreen gardens was formed in 1931 to collect, preserve and exhibit american sculpture, and the flora and fauna native to south carolina.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…
The mission of the society is to advance the knowledge and understanding of architecture, design, landscape and urbanism worldwide among scholars, professionals in allied fields (including architecture, historic preservation and planning)…
To facilitate harvard university's scientific, literary, and educational activities in washington, dc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Beaufort Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Public Library Foundation of Beaufort County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SEED GLOBAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HEYWARD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds JEKYLL ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BEAUFORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Elena Foundation ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF BEAUFORT COUNTY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization The Thorne 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.
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
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 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.