· Private foundation
Thornton Family 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY LEGACY | $20,000 |
| HEAL FOOD ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| BONTON FARMS | $10,000 |
| BEHIND EVERY DOOR | $10,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE SOUL | $10,000 |
| TEXANS ON MISSION | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EXILE INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| MATTHEW 10 INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| THE NEELY SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS AT TCU | $10,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR LIFE | $5,000 |
| THE DAY SCHOOL AT HIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN | $5,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +40%
- M1Matthew 10 International Ministry Inc Attn Dr Pete Sulack2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +18%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- GEGREATER EUROPE MISSIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +12%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
- CECOOL EARTH ACTION USA INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +5%
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Connecting Point of Park Cities. 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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 53 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 FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Matthew 10 International Ministry Inc Attn Dr Pete Sulack ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Heal Food Alliance ↗
- Who funds COOL EARTH ACTION USA INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds TEXAS VALUES ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds EXILE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING POINT OF PARK CITIES ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds TO BE LIKE ME ↗
- Who funds DFW REFUGEE OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROVERBS 31 MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Servant Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Rowling Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Kershaw Foundation · Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Christian Community 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 Thornton Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.