Texas · Private foundation
Thornton Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $160k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 20
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Thornton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $150k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $155k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $160k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $160k | 86% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $140k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Matthew 10 International Ministry Inc Attn Dr Pete Sulack | $35,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Giving Tree Acres Community Farm | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Decision Point Ministries | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Family Legacy Missions International | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Europe Mission | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Council for Life | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Heal Food Alliance | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tim Tebow Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($185k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thornton Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Thornton Family Foundation
- How much does Thornton Family Foundation give?
- Thornton Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $160,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Thornton Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (23%), International (15%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Thornton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Feed My Starving Children Inc ($70k), Matthew 10 International Ministry Inc Attn Dr Pete Sulack ($35k), Giving Tree Acres Community Farm ($30k).
- Does Thornton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thornton Family 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 Thornton Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Servant Foundation, The Dallas Foundation.
- Where is Thornton Family Foundation based?
- Thornton Family Foundation is based in TX.
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