· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $205k · revenue +27%
- COCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS4× · 2018–2023 · $200k · revenue +45%
- CYCOMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +241%
Funded once
- FIFIRE IN THE RING BOXING INCone grant, 2018 · $170k · revenue +13% · 76% of their budget
- IAITALIAN ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $105k
- ICITALIAN COMMUNITY SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +5%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 99 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ITALIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ITALIAN ATHLETIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE AND FIRE THE FALLEN HEROES ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE STAGE ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL LIBERTY SHIP MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds Dolphin Swimming and Boating Foundation ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds The Guardsmen ↗
- Who funds Market Street Railway ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thoresen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thoresen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc: 19% of income from government
How this is measured
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