How much did THE THORNE FOUNDATION grant in FY2017?

THE THORNE FOUNDATION reported 24 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is THE THORNE FOUNDATION based?

THE THORNE FOUNDATION is based in SC.

THE THORNE FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

THE THORNE FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$50k

Granted FY2017

Grants

Communities

$15k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

Under $10k23 grants · $35k
$10k–50k1 grant · $15k

$500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

SEED GLOBAL HEALTH$15,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME$5,000
THOMAS HEYWARD ACADEMY$5,000
YALE UNIVERSITY FORESTRY SCHOOL$5,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART$5,000
BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$2,000
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,000
COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM$1,000
CARNEGIE COUNCIL$500
JEKYLL ISLAND FOUNDATION$500
THE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANY$500
THORNE NATURE EXPERIENCE$500
TULANE UNIVERSITY$500
CAROLINA GOLD RICE FOUNDATION$500

02The need

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 16%. 75% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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 Charleston Museum

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.

Arts & Culture

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation

The north carolina museum of art highlights the following programming, exhibition and initiatives; in the last year the museum added 41 works of art with expansions in the american collection, contemporary acquisitions and african art.…

Arts & Culture

College of Charleston Foundation

To promote education, research, and development programs for the exclusive benefit of the college of charleston

Education

Florida Atlantic University Foundation

To support florida atlantic university.

Education

Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, (see sch. o) embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the…

Arts & Culture

Library of Virginia Foundation

Support library of virginia

Education

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation

The virginia museum of fine arts foundation (foundation) was founded in 1976 to support the virginia museum of fine arts (museum), an agency of the commonwealth of virginia. to accomplish its mission, the foundation administers a…

Arts & Culture

Tallahassee Museum of History and

The tallahassee museum inspires people to transform their lives, community and the world through an enhanced understanding of our region's natural and cultural environments.

Arts & Culture

Science Museum of Virginia Foundation

The science museum of virginia foundation (smvf), inc. supports the science museum of virginia (smv), a premier center for hands-on science education in virginia. permanent exhibitions include interactive exhibits on a wide range of…

Arts & Culture

Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat

To support the educational,scientific & charitable activities of vcu.

Education

Academy Museum Foundation

To serve as a supporting organization of the academy foundation. its primary purpose is to own and operate a museum dedicated to the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

Arts & Culture

The Jacksonville Historical Society

The mission of the jacksonville historical society is to strengthen citizenship through public history education.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Beaufort Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Academy in Rome. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/12

Grantees still filing

10/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$22,100Other$13,900Arts & Culture$7,000International$5,000Health$2,000

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.

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.

Coastal Community Foundation of SouthSC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF BEAUFORT COUNTY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~564 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 141925218 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF BEAUFORT COUNTY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 564 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Thorne Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Thorne Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE THORNE FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Thorne Foundation?

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THE THORNE FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Thorne Foundation?

More from the funding graph