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The Rosemarie and David Thurston Family

Alys Beach, FL · EIN 83-0816705. Reported 64 grants totalling $865,833 to 56 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.

Notold the IRS it takes no unsolicited requests
$1,250median grant
$865,833granted, 2021-2024
56recipients, as named on its returns
6%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,270,358assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". The Rosemarie and David Thurston Family checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement. A foundation can give a different answer on a later return, and this page is rebuilt when one is published. The rest of the page is its giving record: who it chose, and which of those make grants themselves.

Organizations it funds that make grants of their own

3 of the organizations The Rosemarie and David Thurston Family funded make grants themselves, and it reported 3 grants totalling $26,640 to them. That is 46% of the $57,999 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.

All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.

What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.

GrantmakerKindStateReceivedGrantsYearsLastOnly funds organizations it picks?
United Way of Greater Atlanta Incfederated giving programmeGeorgia$25,140112021Its form does not ask
The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inccommunity foundationTennessee$1,000112024Its form does not ask
Swim Across America Incgrantmaking organizationNorth Carolina$500112023Its form does not ask

A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,250. Half of everything it gave fell between $250 and $10,752; the smallest was $100 and the largest $125,040.

Under $1,000
27 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
16 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 and Up
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Christo Rey NetworkAtlanta, GA$150,050222024
Christo Rey Atlanta Student Sponser St Vincent De PaulAtlanta, GA$144,000222024
Catholic Charities Presidents' CircleSmyrna, GA$140,000222024
University of KentuckyLexington, KY$62,500112021
Alliance TheatreAtlanta, GA$50,903222024
Christo Rey National BoardAtlanta, GA$50,000112023
Uk ScholarshipLexington, KY$50,000112023
Christ the KingAtlanta, GA$37,641222024
Christo Rey Student SupportAtlanta, GA$35,000112023
United Way of Greater AtlantaAtlanta, GA$25,140112021
Alliance (united Way)Atlanta, GA$25,000112023
Mustard SeedAtlanta, GA$15,450112024
St Rita Catholic ChurchSanta Rosa Beach, FL$10,752112024
Howard School IncAtlanta, GA$10,298112021
Catholic Archdiocese of AtlantaSmyrna, GA$6,000222022
Christo Rey Employee EndowmentAtlanta, GA$5,000112023
College of Charleston FoundationCharleston, SC$5,000112022
Marist SchoolAtlanta, GA$5,000112021
Mustard Seed CommunitiesMedfield, MA$5,000112021
Alzhemiers AssocAtlanta, GA$4,893222024
Cathedral of Christ the KingAtlanta, GA$3,500112021
Archdiocese of AtlantaSmyrna, GA$3,104112024
Archdiocese Annual AppealSmyrna, GA$3,000112023
Men's Club St Vincent Depaul MatchAtlanta, GA$2,500112023
Christo Rey Board EventAtlanta, GA$2,045112023
Aquinas Center of TheologyAtlanta, GA$1,590112021
Pavani Charitable Effort for RefugeesClarkston, GA$1,500112024
American Red CrossWashington, DC$1,000112021
Community Foundation of ChattanoogaChattanooga, TN$1,000112024
Georgia Tech FoundationAtlanta, GA$1,000112022
The Parkinson's FoundationMiami, FL$1,000112022
University Catholic Center at Emory UniversityAtlanta, GA$1,000112021
Aquinas CenterAtlanta, GA$500112024
Emory GivingAtlanta, GA$500112023
Friends of Jcc KrakowSuffern, NY$500112022
Hospice (olivine)Monterey, CA$500112023
Lost N Found YouthAtlanta, GA$500112022
Swim Across AmericaCharlotte, NC$500112023
Atlanta Community Food BankEast Point, GA$353222023
The Trevor ProjectWest Hollywood, CA$300112024
AIDS Healthcare FoundationAtlanta, GA$250112021
Calvery HospitalBronx, NY$250112023
The Michael J Fox FoundationNew York, NY$250112022
Axis Project IncNew York, NY$200112024
Colorectal Cancer AllianceWashington, DC$158112022
American Heart AssociationDallas, TX$150112022
Fulton County Lodge No 46 Fraternal Order of the PoliceAtlanta, GA$150112021
Mcf Ahimsa HouseTucker, GA$106112021
Ahf Atlanta AIDS WalkAtlanta, GA$100112022
Anti-Defamation LeagueNew York, NY$100112022
Myeloma ResearchBoston, MA$100112024
Page Turners Make Great LearnersAtlanta, GA$100112022
Paws AtlantaDecatur, GA$100112024
Pitt DevelopmentPittsburgh, PA$100112023
St Stephens Catholic ChurchLilburn, GA$100112022
VanderbiltNashville, TN$100112021

8 of 56 (14%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 6%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 21 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants
Civil Rights
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Medical Research
2 grants
Animal Welfare
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202116$119,640$1,295
202213$11,958$250
202319$337,405$2,500
202416$396,830$3,873

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

84% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia.

Georgia
$726K
Kentucky
$112K
Florida
$12K
Massachusetts
$5K
South Carolina
$5K
New York
$1K
District of Columbia
$1K
Tennessee
$1K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.

American Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program12 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust11 shared recipients

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Rosemarie and David Thurston Family's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 290 Sea Garden St Easterly 302, Alys Beach, FL, 32461. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.

EIN 83-0816705 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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