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C Neil and Carolyn S Norgren 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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Animals$29kEducation$4kArts & Culture$4kHuman Services$3kHousing & Shelter$3kCivil Rights$1kHealth$600
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$221k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION$4,000
MADISON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$2,000
MILLICENT ROGERS MUSEUM INC$500
SAMARITAN HOUSE$500
CULVER EDUCATIONAL FUND$500
RRR HERITAGE & TRAILS FDN$250
STEP 13 DENVER$250
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ALSACST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH: $400 → 17%MILLICENT ROGERS MUSEUM INC: $500 → 8%GRACEFUL FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 10%FCLLA VIRGINIA ASSOC: $1k → 6%MADISON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 8%ALSACST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $200 → 17%GRACEFUL FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%CULVER EDUCATIONAL FUND: $500 → 10%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%CULVER EDUCATIONAL FUND: $500 → 10%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%CULVER EDUCATIONAL FUND: $500 → 10%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%CULVER EDUCATIONAL FUND: $500 → 10%MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%CULVER EDUCATIONAL FUND: $500 → 10%DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FDN: $1k → 12%CULVER EDUCATIONAL FUND: $500 → 10%STEP DENVER: $250 → 12%STEP 13 DENVER: $250 → 12%STEP 13 DENVER: $250 → 12%STEP 13 DENVER: $250 → 12%STEP 13 DENVER: $250 → 12%STEP 13 DENVER: $250 → 12%RRR HERITAGE & TRAILS FDN: $250 → 12%RRR HERITAGE & TRAILS FDN: $250 → 12%RRR HERITAGE & TRAILS FDN: $250 → 12%RRR HERITAGE & TRAILS FDN: $250 → 12%RRR HERITAGE & TRAILS FDN: $250 → 12%RRR HERITAGE & TRAILS FDN: $250 → 12%HISTORIC DENVER: $500 → 12%HISTORIC DENVER: $500 → 12%HISTORIC DENVER: $500 → 12%SAMARITAN HOUSE: $500 → 12%SAMARITAN HOUSE: $500 → 12%SAMARITAN HOUSE: $500 → 12%SAMARITAN HOUSE: $500 → 12%SAMARITAN HOUSE: $500 → 12%SAMARITAN HOUSE: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$37k · 8 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$37k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+4%

Still filing today

63%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

  • MA
    MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +13%
  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +77%
  • SD
    Step Denver
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • DZ
    DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +4%
  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • FV
    FCLLA VIRGINIA ASSOC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

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.

1
Red River Zoological Society

As conservation leaders, the red river zoo connects our community to nature and inspires people to help save species.

Animals
2
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
3
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
5
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
6
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
7
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.

Animals
8
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…

Animals
9
Humane Society of Summit County

Humane society of summit county serves our community by caring and advocating for vulnerable animals and enriching the lives of pets and people

Animals
10
Colorado Animal Rescue Inc

C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.

Animals
11
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
12
Global Animal Partnership
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morris Animal Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Step Denver. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $22,500 · AnimalsMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATIONZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $2,500 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGOMADISON-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,000 · AnimalsMADISON-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETYDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Animals+2 more — $1,000 · AnimalsCULVER EDUCATIONAL FUND — $3,000 · OtherCULVER EDUCATIONAL FUNDSAMARITAN HOUSE — $3,000 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSERRR HERITAGE & TRAILS FDN — $1,500 · OtherRRR HERITAGE & TRAILS FDNStep Denver — $1,500 · OtherStep DenverGRACEFULL FOUNDATION — $1,000 · OtherGRACEFULL FOUNDATIONCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYFCLLA VIRGINIA ASSOC — $1,000 · OtherFCLLA VIRGINIA ASSOC+2 more — $600 · OtherHISTORIC DENVER INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureMILLICENT ROGERS MUSEUM INC — $500 · Arts & Culture
Animals$29,000Other$12,600Arts & Culture$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStep Denver — $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC DENVER INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACEFULL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAUQUIER SPCA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO
  • Who funds MADISON-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds Step Denver
  • Who funds HISTORIC DENVER INC
  • Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GRACEFULL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC
  • Who funds FAUQUIER SPCA INC
  • Who funds MILLICENT ROGERS MUSEUM INC

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organization C Neil and Carolyn S Norgren 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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