Illinois · Charitable trust
Thornton Perpetual Charitable Trust
Make donations to various religious, scientific, medical and educational institutions
- $45k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2026
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Itemized, FY2026
- $36k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2026
- $9,100
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $11,374
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 6
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations Thornton Perpetual Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 4 | $36k | 25% |
| FY2025 | 4 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $29k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $33k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $36k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $39k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $35k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Methodist Homes & Services | $84,271 | 9 | 0% |
| Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary | $76,516 | 10 | n/a |
| Rockford University | $57,389 | 10 | 0% |
| United Methodist Foundation of Northern Illinois Conference | $44,324 | 6 | n/a |
| The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago | $13,891 | 4 | 0% |
| Irving Park United Methodist Women | $13,891 | 4 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Thornton Perpetual Charitable Trust
- How much does Thornton Perpetual Charitable Trust give?
- Thornton Perpetual Charitable Trust reported 4 itemized grants totaling $36,399, out of $45,498 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Thornton Perpetual Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Religion (50%), Housing & Shelter (20%), Education (17%).
- Who are Thornton Perpetual Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: United Methodist Homes & Services ($84k), Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary ($77k), Rockford University ($57k).
- Does Thornton Perpetual Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thornton Perpetual Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Thornton Perpetual Charitable Trust based?
- Thornton Perpetual Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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