South Carolina · Nonprofit
THORNWELL
THORNWELL (South Carolina) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,053,054 to it, the largest being TW M H JUDD CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,166,791). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 91
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $66M
What Thornwell does
Mission
As a christian ministry, our mission is to provide safe and nurturing environments where we educate, equip, and support children and families to thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Residential:in 2024, 49 children between the ages of 13 and 18 were served through the attachment-based residential care (a.r.c) program, and 13 young adults between the ages of 18 and 22 were served in the transitional living program. For 149 years, Thornwell has been a safe and welcoming place for children and youth whose lives have been shattered. Thornwell's a.r.c program is designed for youth ages 12-18 who have early experiences of trauma, abuse, neglect, displacement, and abandonment. Some are placed here by the state of south carolina. Others have been adopted by families but have struggled to overcome their trauma and/or have attachment-related issues in the home. The transitional living program is designed to help young adults ages 18-23 learn independent living skills necessary to balance life's responsibilities through vocational and educational support, emotional support, and supervision. A total of 8 independent living skills classes supported the healthy and positive transition to adulthood for these young adults. The transitional living coordinator meets with each resident to check in on their educational and employment successes or needs.children living on the…
$3,370,104 spent$1,293,903 earned by the program32% of program spendingCommunity-based:building familiesThornwell's community-based family intervention operates program sites in: - south carolina o 2 full-time supervisors: - mid/low sc - upstate sc o operating sites: - greenville (1 site with 2 staff and 1 vacant position) - clinton (3 sites with 2 staff and 1 vacant position) - columbia (1 site with 1 staff) - myrtle beach (1 site with 1 staff) - charleston (vacant) - georgia and florida o 1 full-time supervisor o operating sites: - dunwoody, ga (1 site with 1 staff) - lilburn, ga (1 site with 1 vacant position) - tampa, fl (2 sites with 2 staff)the building families program provides in-home counseling to children and their families, with the mission of providing high-quality, trauma informed, attachment focused clinical intervention, along with school-based counseling services. Building families also offers parenting classes and group workshops (both in person and virtually) which are open to the community. During 2024, in-home services and virtual service options were provided to serve families who were out of our service area. In 2024, our program served a total of 962 children and family members. This was a 22% decrease from the previous year.…
$2,657,777 spent$763,271 earned by the program25% of program spendingAcademic services:Thornwell's academic services include a child development center, a learning center, and the read right program. Child development centerThornwell's child development center is licensed by the south carolina department of social services (dss) and operates under all applicable federal, state, and local laws. The center partners with the south carolina advocates for better care (abc) south carolina's quality childcare rating system as well as the south carolina association of community action partnerships' (scacap) early head start and the south carolina first steps 4k programs to provide nurturing, responsive, and high-quality care and learning services to children, ages 6 weeks through 4 years old. These partnerships align with the developmentally appropriate practices, curriculum, and activities goals of south carolina's early learning standards.the child development center provides care and services to over 120 children and families on average. Our facility consists of six early head start classrooms, one 3k classroom, and three 4k classrooms. Our classrooms provide warm, engaging, and secure spaces that inspire young children to explore and grow. Our…
$2,395,831 spent$359,303 earned by the program23% of program spendingOther programs:dining hallin partnership with the usda, Thornwell's dining hall served a record breaking 56,291 grab-n-go free meals in 2024 to those experiencing food insecurity across laurens county in south carolina. The grab-n-go meals program initially started as a response to the pandemic in 2020. This vital program helps ease caregivers' burdens by providing free, healthy breakfast and lunch options and ensures children stay nourished and healthy during the summer months. Thornwell's child nutrition team has served 263,105 meals since the program began in 2020.lushacres farmlocated on 340 acres of Thornwell's campus in clinton, sc, lushacres farm is a working farm that exemplifies Thornwell's mission to "provide safe and nurturing environments where we educate, equip, and support children and families to thrive". Lushacres farm exists to grow, source, and equitably distribute healthy food products as well as provide family-focused activities and events for Thornwell and the surrounding communities. The products grown at lushacres are sold and distributed via the year-round farm market that is located on-site and the new mobile market with proceeds from all market sales and…
$2,089,336 spent$709,789 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,513,048.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $69M to $59M (−14%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 9% · 2020 14% · 2021 10% · 2022 3% · 2023 6% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of THORNWELL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Myron Wilkins
President/CEO
Board chair
Maurice A Purcell
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $556k → $1.2M.
23 of 91 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THORNWELL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 91 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THORNWELL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THORNWELL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 19% · 2019 17% · 2020 20% · 2021 15% · 2022 19% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
52% of THORNWELL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THORNWELL draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THORNWELL's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 43 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like THORNWELL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THORNWELL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THORNWELL?
- THORNWELL (South Carolina) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,053,054 to it, the largest being TW M H JUDD CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,166,791). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THORNWELL have?
- IRS filings report 91 organizations giving $9,053,054 in grants to THORNWELL, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THORNWELL?
- TW M H JUDD CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,166,791 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THORNWELL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 91 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing