How much did Thurston Family Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of Thurston Family Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

neuroscience research

2019

awarenessneuroscience research

2020

employeegoodappreciationdefense naturehealthcare

2021

water conservation

2022

jackson holresponsehealth

2023

health

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$250k+3 grants · $2.3M

$302,857

Median grant

States reached

$53M

Total assets

Largest grants

Valley of the Sun YMCA$1,035,000
Women's Board of Barrow Neurologic$1,002,858
Community Foundation of Jackson Hol$302,857
Genesis City$20,000
The Society of St Vincent de Paul$15,000
Ability360$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$16M · 19 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$16M

$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%

+150%

Still filing today

47%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther

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

HS
HUMAN SERVICES CAMPUS
3× · 2018–2020 · $150k · revenue +1604%
CR
Charlie Russell Riders Foundation
4× · 2018–2023 · $87k · revenue +757% · 42% of their budget
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FDN
3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +233%

Funded once

TH
The HS Lopez Family Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +130%
CF
COMMUNITY FDN OF JACKSON HOLEgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $515k · revenue +170%
SD
Save Democracy Inc
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -40%

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

04Your field

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.

Arizona Foundation for Women

To advance the status of arizona's women through research, advocacy and philanthropy to ensure their safety, health and economic independence. this includes performing the functions of, or carrying out the purposes of the arizona community…

Human Services

Community Foundation Santa Cruz

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future

Philanthropy

Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Banner alzheimer's foundation secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute.

Health

The Water Research Foundation

Advancing the science of water to improve the quality of life.

Environment

Npr Foundation

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The Leadership Foundation

The foundation advances the careers of high-potential women through leadership development programs.

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Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health (bh) complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

Jefferson Regional Foundation

Improve the health & well-being of the community of jefferson hospital through grantmaking, education, & outreach.

Health

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health

The Vermont Community Foundation

Inspiring giving and bringing together people and resources to make a difference.

Philanthropy

American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole and the most unlike its peers is The Heritage Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/22

the rest of the field

13%

3,773/28,463

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.

05the grantee network

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/20

Grantees still filing

12/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$10,293,054Philanthropy$5,885,000Health$1,722,020Human Services$180,000Housing & Shelter$150,000Civil Rights$100,000Education$39,000

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.

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Thunderbirds · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation Thurston 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Charlie Russell Riders Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~24 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 222993741 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Charlie Russell Riders Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 24 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Thurston Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Thurston Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Thurston Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Thurston Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Thurston Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Thurston Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph