Georgia · Private foundation
Thoresen Foundation
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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $24,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $39M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Thoresen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $828k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 32 | $1.5M | 41% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $2.3M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $1.4M | 60% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $690k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $745k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties | $821,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Salesian Boys and Girls Club | $276,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Lees-McRae College Inc | $205,000 | 3 | 0% |
| College of the Ozarks | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Fire in the Ring Boxing Inc | $170,000 | 1 | 76% |
| Community Youth Center | $150,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Hebron Colony Ministries Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Italian Community Services | $100,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Appalachian Regional Healthcare Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thoresen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Olympic Club Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Thoresen Foundation
- How much does Thoresen Foundation give?
- Thoresen Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $1,471,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Thoresen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (15%), Youth Development (10%), Education (10%).
- Who are Thoresen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ($821k), Salesian Boys and Girls Club ($276k), Lees-McRae College Inc ($205k).
- Does Thoresen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thoresen Foundation 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 Thoresen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Olympic Club Foundation, McNabb Foundation, The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation.
- Where is Thoresen Foundation based?
- Thoresen Foundation is based in GA.
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