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Abbie Norman Prince Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$785k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.7MEnvironment$1.5MFood & Nutrition$735kCommunity Improvement$585kRecreation & Sports$530kHealth$255kHuman Services$245kHousing & Shelter$238kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $715k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization$50,000
Foodshed Capital$35,000
Future Harvest Inc$35,000
Southern Environmental Law Center$35,000
Anacostia Business Improvement District Corporation$35,000
Music and Dance Theater Chicago Inc$30,000
Marwen Foundation$30,000
Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$30,000
Virginia Interfaith Power & Light$30,000
The Joffrey Ballet$30,000
Girls in the Game NFP$25,000
National Links Trust$25,000
NeighborSpace$25,000
Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens$25,000
University of Chicago$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mamatoto Village Inc: $25k → 14%Mamatoto Village Inc: $25k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $25k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $25k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $25k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $20k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $20k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $25k → 14%The BLOC: $20k → 14%Voices for Illinois Children: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
IL
NY
MA
CT
RI
VA
MD
DC
LA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 64 repeat orgs$896k to everyone else

64 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
39

Total granted

$5.6M
$766k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+46%

Still filing today

94%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementFood & 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

  • TJ
    THE JOFFREY BALLET
    8× · 2017–2024 · $248k · revenue +90%
  • MA
    MUSIC AND DANCE THEATER CHICAGO INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $233k · revenue +66%
  • SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • NG
    National Gallery of Artgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +38%
  • FM
    FRESHFARM MARKETSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +278%
  • ST
    STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -6%
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.

1
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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5
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
6
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
7
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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8
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
9
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
10
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
11
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rectory School Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Phillips Collection. 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

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 108 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/100
Grantees still filing
79/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JOFFREY BALLET: $247,500 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFREY BALLETMUSIC AND DANCE THEATER CHICAGO INC: $232,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC AND DANCE THEATER CHIC…Marwen Foundation Inc: $197,500 · Arts & CultureMarwen Foundation IncHUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO: $147,500 · Arts & CultureHUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGOFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $137,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVERCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $120,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATERTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $105,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTIONLyric Opera of Chicago: $95,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of ChicagoJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $90,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR TH…National Gallery of Art: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $207,500 · Arts & Culture+9 moreSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $225,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTEROPENLANDS: $215,000 · OtherOPENLANDSGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $150,000 · OtherGIRLS IN THE GAME NFPTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $135,000 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INCSmithsonian Institute: $135,000 · OtherSmithsonian InstituteNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherMetropolitan Family Services: $140,000 · OtherMetropolitan Family ServicesTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $75,000 · OtherALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $115,000 · OtherALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HIST…+31 more: $679,500 · Other+31 moreANACOSTIA BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT: $195,000 · Community ImprovementANACOSTIA B…NEIGHBORSPACE: $125,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORSPA…DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $105,000 · Community ImprovementDC FISCAL P…METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $75,000 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITA…DC Greens Inc: $70,000 · Community ImprovementDC Greens I…COMMUNITY OF HOPE: $50,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY O…PIEDMONT JOURNALISM FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $30,000 · Community ImprovementLittle Village Environmental Justice Org: $205,000 · Recreation & SportsLittle Vill…METROSQUASH NFP: $120,000 · Recreation & SportsMETROSQUASH…Outreach with Lacrosse Schools: $95,000 · Recreation & SportsOutreach wi…FRIENDS OF KENILWORTH AQUATIC GARDENS: $85,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF …FRIENDS OF THE PARKS: $55,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF …THE BASEBALL INC: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE BASEBAL…WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsUP2US INC: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $195,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR …FUTURE HARVEST INC: $175,000 · Food & NutritionFUTURE HAR…CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AR…Sweet Water Foundation Inc: $65,000 · Food & NutritionSweet Wate…FRESHFARM MARKETS: $45,000 · Food & NutritionFRESHFARM …FOODSHED CAPITAL: $35,000 · Food & NutritionFOODSHED C…Minority and Veteran Farmers of the Piedmont Inc: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCLEAN WATER FUND: $85,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WAT…ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $75,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONME…Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $65,000 · EnvironmentVirginia …VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT: $60,000 · EnvironmentVIRGINIA …Healthy Schools Campaign: $40,000 · EnvironmentHealthy S…THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentTHE POTOM…ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentANACOSTIA…Nature Forward: $40,000 · EnvironmentNature Fo…Potomac Riverkeeper Network: $25,000 · EnvironmentHEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM: $25,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE: $20,000 · EnvironmentBULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentUniversity of Chicago: $135,000 · EducationST LUKE'S SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $25,000 · EducationST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $12,500 · Education+5 more: $11,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,655,000Other$2,064,500Community Improvement$680,000Recreation & Sports$670,000Food & Nutrition$615,000Environment$545,000Education$248,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $247,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC AND DANCE THEATER CHICAGO INC: $232,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $225,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOPENLANDS: $215,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org: $205,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetMarwen Foundation Inc: $197,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetANACOSTIA BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT: $195,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $195,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURE HARVEST INC: $175,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $150,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetHUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO: $147,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $137,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORSPACE: $125,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetMETROSQUASH NFP: $120,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $115,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $105,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $105,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOutreach with Lacrosse Schools: $95,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $95,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KENILWORTH AQUATIC GARDENS: $85,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $85,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDC Greens Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSweet Water Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetVirginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $65,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetVIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT: $60,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PARKS: $55,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetBEYOND THE BALL NFP: $55,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetMAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRESHFARM MARKETS: $45,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetST LUKE'S SCHOOL: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHealthy Schools Campaign: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget
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.

  • Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC AND DANCE THEATER CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
  • Who funds Little Village Environmental Justice Org ↗
  • Who funds Marwen Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANACOSTIA BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ↗
  • Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FUTURE HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP ↗
  • Who funds HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER ↗
  • Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORSPACE ↗
  • Who funds METROSQUASH NFP ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
  • Who funds ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Outreach with Lacrosse Schools ↗
  • Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF KENILWORTH AQUATIC GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
  • Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
  • Who funds DC Greens Inc ↗
  • Who funds Sweet Water Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND THE BALL NFP ↗

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.

Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary TrustIL96.4× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Abbie Norman Prince Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abbie Norman Prince Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Center for Watershed Protection Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Future Harvest Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Nature Forward: 32% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Rectory School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 108 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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