New Mexico · Private foundation
Thornburg 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.
- $6.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 144
- Grants FY2024
- 114
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $225,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 89 to 115
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $179M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Thornburg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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 | 116 | $6.0M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 114 | $5.4M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 115 | $5.8M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 108 | $5.1M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 106 | $4.9M | 30% |
| FY2019 | 102 | $4.8M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 100 | $4.8M | 37% |
| FY2017 | 89 | $4.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Landowners Alliance | $1,693,500 | 8 | 27% |
| Common Cause Education Fund | $1,447,400 | 5 | 4% |
| New Mexico First | $1,172,892 | 6 | 44% |
| National Dance Institute Nm Inc | $900,000 | 6 | 3% |
| New Mexico In Depth Inc | $870,000 | 8 | 35% |
| New Mexico Ethics Watch | $841,285 | 5 | 99% |
| National Young Farmers Coalition Inc | $711,876 | 8 | 8% |
| Central New Mexico Community College Foundation Inc | $709,112 | 6 | 9% |
| Growing Up New Mexicoinc | $660,750 | 3 | 6% |
| Santa Fe Community College Foundation | $567,000 | 6 | 8% |
Show all 212 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 107 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thornburg Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 194 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Anchorum St Vincent · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · The Frost Foundation · New Mexico Community Foundation · St Vincent Hospital · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to Thornburg Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Thornburg Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Thornburg Foundation
- How much does Thornburg Foundation give?
- Thornburg Foundation reported 144 grants totaling $6,436,684 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 89 and 115 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Thornburg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (25%), Public Benefit (18%), Environment (14%).
- Who are Thornburg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Western Landowners Alliance ($1.7M), Common Cause Education Fund ($1.4M), New Mexico First ($1.2M).
- Does Thornburg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thornburg 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 Thornburg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc, Anchorum St Vincent.
- Where is Thornburg Foundation based?
- Thornburg Foundation is based in NM.
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