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.

Thornwell Family Foundation

Thornwell Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$739kPhilanthropy$653kHealth$388kHuman Services$344kFood & Nutrition$290kHousing & Shelter$287kYouth Development$113kAnimals$73kOther$0

02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $40k
$10k–50k20 grants · $350k
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$55M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
Meals on Wheels Southwest OH & Northern KY	$100,000
Matthew 25 Ministries	$100,000
Individual grant recipient	$100,000
MARR Addiction Treatment Centers	$100,000
CISE	$100,000
Catholic Charities of Southwestern Ohio	$100,000
Greater Cincinnati Foundation fbo Katherine and Tim Stautberg Family Fund	$100,000
Beaches Community Fund (The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida)	$50,000
St Xavier High School	$50,000
The Craddock Center	$25,000
The Sobriety Resource Inc	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 35 repeat orgs$816k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

Still filing today

63%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $735k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesAnimalsEducationInternationalHealthFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

TB
THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $210k · revenue +76%
SA
ST AUGUSTINE YOUTH SERVICES INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $78k · revenue +98%
LM
LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE
4× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +82%

Funded once

GP
GEORGIA PURPLE HEART VETERANS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $20k
LC
LIFE CARE PONTE VEDRA INC (VICAR'S LANDING EMPLOYEE HOLIDAY FUND)
one grant, 2024 · $10k
CH
COVENANT HOUSE GA
one grant, 2020 · $8k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

CaringWorks Inc

Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.

Human Services

Cincinnati Union Bethel

Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.

Human Services

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

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…

—

Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

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 Inc

Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter

90 Works Inc

Overcoming homelessness, poverty, and family violence by becoming self-sufficient

—

Christian Services Inc

To prevent childhood deprivation of families in Lancaster County, SC by meeting basic nutritional needs, providing Christmas assistance and workplace training and literacy

Human Services

Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc

The mission of Good Shepherd is to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and foster transition to housing.

Housing & Shelter

Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

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…

Human Services

Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services

Cain Cincy

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…

Religion

Crisis Center for South Suburbia

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…

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Youth Services; 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.

04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/43

Grantees still filing

22/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,792,340Human Services$362,100Housing & Shelter$275,000Health$255,000Education$235,000Religion$111,000International$104,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH29.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thornwell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thornwell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home