South Carolina · Private foundation
The Thorofare Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $12k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $376k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Thorofare Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $12k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $6k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $17k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $19k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $16k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $16k | 59% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $6k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Island Institute | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Isle Au Haut Boat Services | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc | $8,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $3,500 | 7 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hopeful Horizons | $2,050 | 5 | 0% |
| Georgia Center for Child Advocacy Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of the Lowcountry | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Phillips Academy | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Isle Au Haut Lighthouse | $200 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Thorofare Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About The Thorofare Foundation
- How much does The Thorofare Foundation give?
- The Thorofare Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $12,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Thorofare Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (34%), Civil Rights (20%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Thorofare Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Island Institute ($23k), Isle Au Haut Boat Services ($9k), Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ($9k).
- Does The Thorofare Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Thorofare Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Thorofare Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Thorofare Foundation based?
- The Thorofare Foundation is based in SC.
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