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The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$38k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$125
Largest grant, FY2024
$14,050
Organizations funded a year
21 to 29
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$223k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $613 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitAnimalsInternationalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving27$38k26%
FY202324$35k25%
FY202221$35k14%
FY202129$28k38%
FY202029$30k28%
FY201923$37kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$53kArts & Culture$50kRecreation & Sports$45kEducation$20kHealth$20kHuman Services$1kPhilanthropy$1kCivil Rights$200Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
TN
SC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($86k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHeritage Classic Foundation: $45,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHilton Head Symphony Orchestra Inc: $26,600 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHilton Head Choral Society Inc: $9,700 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetBurgundy Farm Country Day School Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Orthopaedic Association: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Lawrence University: $4,925 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetArts Center of Coastal Carolina: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Chanticleer Inc: $2,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMain Stage Community Theatre: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBluffton Self Help Inc: $1,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Volunteers in Medicine Clinic: $1,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Discovery Museum: $950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpoleto Festival USA Inc: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHopeful Horizons: $550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $525 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHarvard Club of New York City: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLean Ensemble Theater: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarvard Magazine Inc: $310 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of the Lowcountry: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $145 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $136 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Broward County Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Abuse Prevention Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWater Missions International: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbilis Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMirasol Health Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Heritage Classic FoundationSC28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Heritage Classic Foundation · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Bargain Box · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Hack Foundation Inc · The Marshall Miller Foundation · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · Wexford Foundation · Breedlove Foundation Im 020120186528 · The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation · Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island-Sunset · David W Ellis Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc give?
The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $37,573 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 29 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Arts & Culture (25%), Recreation & Sports (22%).
Who are The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Heritage Classic Foundation ($45k), Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Inc ($27k), Hilton Head Choral Society Inc ($10k).
Does The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Heritage Classic Foundation, Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, The Bargain Box.
Where is The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc based?
The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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