· Private foundation
The Thorofare Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ISLE AU HAUT COMMUNITY DEV CORP | $1,500 |
| ICDC | $1,000 |
| ISLAND INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW ENGLAND | $500 |
| BATE COLLEGE PARENTS FUND | $500 |
| TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $500 |
| HOPEFUL HORIZONS | $500 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE LC | $500 |
| ACLU OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE | $200 |
| UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $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 (FY19–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 90% 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
Backed again, and grew
- IIIsland Institute7× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +121%
- IAIsle Au Haut Boat Services4× · 2019–2023 · $9k · revenue +142%
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +34%
Funded once
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +49%- IHISLEAN HAUT BOAT SVCSone grant, 2020 · $2k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE PB CONSERVATORYone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Friends of Acadia preserves, protects, and promotes stewardship of the outstanding natural beauty, ecological vitality, and distinctive cultural resources of Acadia National Park and surrounding communities for the inspiration and…
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.
The primary mission and significant activities of Acadia Healthcare, Inc. d/b/a Northern Light Acadia Healthcare are the provision of an alcohol and drug treatment program, case management services, school-based services, mental health…
The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…
To preserve and steward aquidneck island's open spaces for the lasting benefit of the community while connecting people with the land that defines the island's natural character.
The mission of the Maine Island Trail Association is to advance a model of thoughtful use and volunteer stewardship of Maine's wild islands, creating an inspiring recreational water trail that is cared for by the people who use it.
Mission - the aclu of maine works to support bills that advance civil rights and civil liberties and oppose bills that would curtail them. we also provide voter education about how to vote and voting rights at the polls. we do not endorse…
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 33 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 Island Institute ↗
- Who funds Isle Au Haut Boat Services ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Thorofare Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thorofare Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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