Georgia · Private foundation
Thornwell 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $55M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Thornwell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $415k 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 | 42 | $1.8M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $598k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $243k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $200k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $152k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $150k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Xavier High School Inc | $300,000 | 6 | n/a |
| People Working Cooperatively Inc | $275,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Metro Atlanta Recovery Residences Inc | $230,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Boyce L Ansley School Inc | $210,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cise | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Matthew 25 Ministries Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Augustine Youth Services Inc | $78,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Last Mile Food Rescue | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Thornwell | $52,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thornwell 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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Millstone Fund · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica
How this is measured
About Thornwell Family Foundation
- How much does Thornwell Family Foundation give?
- Thornwell Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $1,792,940 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Thornwell Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Philanthropy (21%), Health (12%).
- Who are Thornwell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Xavier High School Inc ($300k), People Working Cooperatively Inc ($275k), Metro Atlanta Recovery Residences Inc ($230k).
- Does Thornwell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thornwell 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 Thornwell Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, Millstone Fund.
- Where is Thornwell Family Foundation based?
- Thornwell Family Foundation is based in GA.
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