· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION | $14,050 |
| LOWCOUNTRY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $9,560 |
| HILTON HEAD CHORAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,000 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $1,425 |
| BURGUNDY FARM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| LEAN ENSEMBLE THEATER | $400 |
| BELFAIR 1811 CHARITABLE FUND | $250 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $200 |
| BLUFFTON SELF HELP | $200 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT | $200 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $135 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CLASS OF 1969 | $125 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA NURSE RETENTION INIT | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HCHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +30%
- HHHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +22%
- BFBURGUNDY FARM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- MSMAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATREone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -57%
- RMRAWLINSON MUSIC LOVERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $1k
- HHHILTON HEAD INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMone grant, 2022 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Hollins university is an independent liberal arts university dedicated to academic excellence and humane values. hollins university offers undergraduate liberal arts education for women, selected graduate programs for men and women, and…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BURGUNDY FARM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds HARVARD CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds LEAN ENSEMBLE THEATER ↗
- Who funds HARVARD MAGAZINE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
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.
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
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 organization The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.