· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $350k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| People Working Cooperatively | $250,000 |
| The Boyce L Ansley School Inc | $150,000 |
| Raymond James Charitable fbo Rembert and Katherine Thornwell Family Fund | $101,487 |
| Raymond James Charitable fbo David and Terri Dozier Family Fund | $101,453 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Catholic Charities of Southwestern Ohio | $100,000 |
| Greater Cincinnati Foundation fbo Katherine and Tim Stautberg Family Fund | $100,000 |
| Meals on Wheels Southwest OH & Northern KY | $100,000 |
| Matthew 25 Ministries | $100,000 |
| CISE | $100,000 |
| MARR Addiction Treatment Centers | $100,000 |
| St Xavier High School | $50,000 |
| Beaches Community Fund (The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida) | $50,000 |
| The Craddock Center | $25,000 |
| Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $327k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% 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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $735k 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
- TBTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $210k · revenue +76%
- SAST AUGUSTINE YOUTH SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $78k · revenue +98%
- LMLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE4× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- GPGEORGIA PURPLE HEART VETERANS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k
- LCLIFE CARE PONTE VEDRA INC (VICAR'S LANDING EMPLOYEE HOLIDAY FUND)one grant, 2024 · $10k
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE GAone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.
Overcoming homelessness, poverty, and family violence by becoming self-sufficient
To prevent childhood deprivation of families in Lancaster County, SC by meeting basic nutritional needs, providing Christmas assistance and workplace training and literacy
The mission of Good Shepherd is to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and foster transition to housing.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
Tranforms lives inspiring hope by providing nutritious food,crisis assistance,resources and compassion that respects human dignity building a more vibrant community. feeding bodies and souls through its choice food pantry,weekly community…
The Crisis Center for South Suburbia is a non-profit community organization providing emergency shelter and essential services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence while addressing the societal issues contributing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Youth Services and the most unlike its peers is Overland Summers Foundation Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 70 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 PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC ↗
- Who funds METRO ATLANTA RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THORNWELL ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE NORTH GA CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CARE PONTE VEDRA INC ↗
- Who funds The Craddock Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Sobriety Resource ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA PURPLE HEART VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry I 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: 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
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 Thornwell 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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.