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Thoren Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$369k
Granted FY2023
77
Grants FY2023
11
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Environment$191kHealth$65kHuman Services$57kAnimals$55kArts & Culture$28kRecreation & Sports$27kFood & Nutrition$22kReligion$14kOther$0
02FY2023 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k68 grants · $216k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $153k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN JUAN CITIZEN'S ALLIANCE$30,000
SAN JUAN MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION$25,000
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$19,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$19,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$15,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$10,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY IN COLORADO$10,000
EARTHWORKS$10,000
IAM MUSIC$6,000
COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO$5,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS$5,000
NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$5,000
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION$5,000
FOUR CORE OFFICE FOR RESOURCE EFFICIENCY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $3k → 14%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%MISSION HOSPICE & HOME CARE: $2k → 7%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%MISSION HOSPICE & HOME CARE: $1k → 7%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 8%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 7%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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VA
MD
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$187k · 24 repeat orgs$362k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +104% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 67 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
26

Total granted

$187k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%
+37%

Still filing today

58%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $314k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
    3× · 2018–2023 · $26k · revenue +87%
  • GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $26k · revenue +81%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2023 · $13k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • PF
    PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +85%
  • CP
    CALL PRIMROSE
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
2
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Parks California

As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.

Environment
5
San Isabel Land Protection Trust

The principal mission of the land trust is to work with landowners to protect agricultural and forest lands, water resources, wildlife habitat and scenic open spaces, and to serve our community by facilitating parks and trail in custer,…

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6
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
7
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
8
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment
11
Peaks to People Water Fund

The peaks to people water fund aims to protect resources in the cache la poudre and big thompson watersheds by restoring forests to reduce the risk of severe wildfires. these forest restoration projects not only protect water from…

Environment
12
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Plata Family Centers Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Annies Orphans. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Youth Mentoring ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesCancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesSchool District FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Animal Rescue and ShelterEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%57%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/84
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,481

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.

04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 119 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
57/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $16,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,300 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $9,000 · OtherEarthworks — $10,000 · Other+67 more — $205,370 · Other+67 moreSan Juan Citizens Alliance — $30,000 · EnvironmentSan Juan Citizens AllianceSAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentSAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATIO…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $19,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COU…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $19,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND IN…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $6,500 · EnvironmentHIGH COUNTRY NEWS — $5,000 · EnvironmentLa Plata Open Space Conservancy — $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $5,000 · EnvironmentFour Corners Office for Resource Eff — $5,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Environment+3 more — $6,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $26,007 · AnimalsParker's Animal Rescue — $5,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,500 · AnimalsDogsters Spay and Neuter — $2,500 · AnimalsLA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,500 · Animals+2 more — $2,000 · AnimalsGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $25,700 · Human ServicesPENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE — $6,000 · Human ServicesMISSION HOSPICE & HOME CARE INC — $2,700 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $2,500 · Human Services+2 more — $550 · Human Servicesi AM Music Inc — $6,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCURIODYSSEY — $3,000 · Arts & CultureDURANGO ARTS CENTER INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $2,000 · Arts & CultureHaynes Family of Programs — $5,000 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 · HealthMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $3,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $2,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,500 · HealthLocal First Foundation — $2,500 · HealthANIMAS ALANO CLUB — $2,500 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $1,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $12,800 · Recreation & SportsThe Colorado Parks Foundation Inc — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTRAILS 2000 INC — $2,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$261,170Environment$146,000Animals$40,507Human Services$37,450Arts & Culture$28,500Health$27,500Recreation & Sports$20,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSan Juan Citizens Alliance — $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $26,007 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $25,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $19,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $19,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $12,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarthworks — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgeti AM Music Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colorado Parks Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHaynes Family of Programs — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Plata Open Space Conservancy — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES ORGANIZATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParker's Animal Rescue — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOAK TREE YOUTH RESOURCES — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDURANGO FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFour Corners Office for Resource Eff — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM UP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATALINO TAPIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATI — $4,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCALL PRIMROSE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCURIODYSSEY — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION HOSPICE & HOME CARE INC — $2,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlternative Horizons Corporation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDurango Education Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDURANGO ARTS CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Colorado Gives Founda…Ballantine Family FundTeam UpEl Pomar FoundationThe Moniker FoundationWestmeath FoundationLa Plata Electric Ass…The Erteszek Foundati…Rocky Mountain Health…The Colorado Health F…Larry and Elizabeth C…
Community Foundation Serving Southwest ColoradoCO51.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · Colorado Gives Foundation · Ballantine Family Fund · Team Up · El Pomar Foundation · The Moniker Foundation · Westmeath Foundation · La Plata Electric Association Inc · The Erteszek Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Larry and Elizabeth Crawford 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 Thoren Family Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 119 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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