· Private foundation
The Thornhill Family Foundation
Its FY2018 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 2018.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k8 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GAMMA PHI BETA FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| DARAJA EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| COLORADO GRAND INC | $4,000 |
| W OSCAR NEUHAUS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| 10-90 COPPERSTATE FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $2,500 |
| WILDCARE | $1,000 |
| SUNHOUSE GUILD ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of The Thornhill Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +131% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down.
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 FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GPGAMMA PHI BETA FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $39k · revenue +60%
- DEDaraja Education Fund2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +425%
- TWThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- BABAY AREA RESCUE MISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +32%
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +72%
- HAHOPALONG ANIMAL RESCUEone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -25%
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.
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The nmmf's mission is to improve and protect life for marine mammals, humans, and our shared oceans through science, service, and education. our vision is to be the leading laboratory in marine mammal science, where critical questions…
Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
To inspire people to care for and protect our ocean planet through education and research.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
See schedule odedicated to rescuing, protecting and providing sanctuary for elephants worldwide. our founding directors and elephant care specialist consult internationally for the wellbeing of captive elephants. currently based in brazil,…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
How this is measured
12 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.
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 GAMMA PHI BETA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Daraja Education Fund ↗
- Who funds The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GRAND INC ↗
- Who funds 10-90 COPPERSTATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILDCARE ↗
- Who funds SUN HOUSE GUILD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds HOPALONG ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Thornhill Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thornhill Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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