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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $900k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dolphin Swimming and Boating | $275,000 |
| PARC | $120,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Appalachian Regional Healthcare System | $100,000 |
| Wildlife Restoration Fdn | $90,000 |
| Fire in the Ring | $90,000 |
| St Vincent De Paul Men's Club | $50,000 |
| Lees Mcrae College | $50,000 |
| Community Youth Center | $50,000 |
| The Guardsmen | $50,000 |
| Pheasants Forever | $30,000 |
| Mayland Community College | $30,000 |
| Banner Elk Presbyterian Church | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $427k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
34 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 13 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k 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
- SBSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB3× · 2018–2023 · $276k · revenue +72%
- LCLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $205k · revenue +27%
- COCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS4× · 2018–2023 · $200k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- FIFIRE IN THE RING BOXING INCone grant, 2018 · $170k · revenue +13% · 76% of their budget
- IAITALIAN ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $105k
- SFSAN FRANCISCO ITALIAN ATHLETIC CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +33%
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.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
To develop youth and conserve natural resources for a resilient, sustainable, and equitable community.
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Boys Hope Girls Hope nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others. Offering direct educational programming and support as well as college admission assistance and…
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
To support vulnerable children and families in need of stability, safety, and wellbeing in their communities.
Our mission is to build healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities for all generations.
The San Francisco Conservation Corps offers young people opportunities to develop themselves by developing their academic abilities and marketable job skills while addressing community needs through service work
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
To provide a quality child development program in an atmosphere conducive to the development of the whole child.
The central coast ymca embraces the values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility, with a mission to strengthen community through programs that develop youth, support healthy living, and foster social responsibility.
Jewish family and children's services exists to provide professional and volunteer services for the purposes of developing, restoring, and maintaining the competency of families and individuals of all ages. traditionally, jewish family and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Community Youth Center. 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 99 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 Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds SALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds FIRE IN THE RING BOXING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hebron Colony Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ITALIAN ATHLETIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds POLICE AND FIRE THE FALLEN HEROES ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL LIBERTY SHIP MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE STAGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds Dolphin Swimming and Boating Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Guardsmen ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Market Street Railway ↗
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: 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
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 Thoresen Foundation 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.
- Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc — 19% 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.