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The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$125
Median grant
8
States reached
$223k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT: $200 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
TN
SC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$194k · 30 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
21

Total granted

$194k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+24%

Still filing today

57%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyReligionAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HC
    HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +30%
  • HH
    HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +22%
  • BF
    BURGUNDY FARM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • MS
    MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -57%
  • RM
    RAWLINSON MUSIC LOVERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • HH
    HILTON HEAD INTERNATIONAL PIANO COM
    one grant, 2022 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
3
Hollins University Corporation

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…

Education
4
Lehigh University

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…

Education
5
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Brevard College Corporation

Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
10
Hilbert College

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…

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Furman University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOWCOUNTRY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $51,758 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHHILTON HEAD CHORAL SOCIETY INC: $9,700 · OtherHILTON HEAD CHORAL SOCIETY INCIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $8,100 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOLHARVARD COLLEGE: $6,300 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGESOUTH CAROLINA NURSE RETENTION INIT: $5,100 · Other+35 more: $11,230 · Other+35 moreHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $45,350 · PhilanthropyHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATI…+1 more: $850 · PhilanthropyHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $26,600 · Arts & CultureHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY…ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $3,750 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER OF COAST…SAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC: $2,800 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO CHANTI…MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMAIN STAGE COMMUNITY…+3 more: $1,860 · Arts & CultureBURGUNDY FARM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $7,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $4,925 · EducationVanderbilt University: $525 · Education+3 more: $430 · EducationAMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $550 · ReligionFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $200 · Human Services
Other$100,688Philanthropy$46,200Arts & Culture$37,010Education$12,880Health$5,100Religion$550Human Services$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $850 over 3y, 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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $150 over 2y, 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
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 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 ↗

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 Foun…Community Foundation …The Bargain BoxCoastal Community Fou…The Hack Foundation I…The Marshall Miller F…The Berkeley Hall Cha…Wexford FoundationBreedlove Foundation …The Douglas & Tonyia …Rotary Club of Hilton…David W Ellis Family …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 74%
  • Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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