· Private foundation
Emile B Norman Charitable Trust
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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $470k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL INC | $350,000 |
| MONTEREY HISTORY ART ASSN | $120,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CA SANTA CRUZ ART DEP | $100,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC MONTEREY BAY | $50,000 |
| MONTEREY PENINSULA THEATER TRUST | $50,000 |
| MONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| CARMEL ART ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| CARMEL MUSIC SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| MONTEREY COUNTY FILM COMMISSION | $20,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL FOR MONTEREY COUNTY | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Engage with art shows, education and programs. exhibiting artworks by san francisco bay area artists.
The only music festival in North America dedicated to Mozart, our mission embraces both performance of highest artistic excellence and cultivation of new potential audience, including young people to assure the future appreciation of great…
Entertain and engage our community through musical performance and education.
To support art and culture in Marin County, including enhancing the programs and facilities at the Marin Center and Marin County Fair.
Fostering the passion and development of local youth through the performing arts, where talents and life skills may grow in an inspiring and nurturing environment.
Founded by Carmel-by-the-sea artist Jeanne Dorge, the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts was established to help support experimental fine arts and projects in the sciences. Since its opening in 1948, the Center has strived to stay true to…
Provide Chinese Culture and Help to Advance social, economic well-being of Chinese American at Monterey Bay, California.
Community development arts agency
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
Perform two sets of symphonic choral music concerts in venues throughout Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties, and provide musical training and education through workshops, residencies, and intensive rehearsals.
Marinarts.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for all the arts in marin county. we provide an online calendar and searchable directories as resources to help facilitate participation, broaden audiences, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monterey Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Carmel Art Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Carmel Bach Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY HISTORY AND ART ASSOCIATION LTD ↗
- Who funds CARMEL MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC MONTEREY BAY ↗
- Who funds Carmel Art Association ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY PENINSULA THEATRE TRUST ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY FILM COMMISSION ↗
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.
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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 Emile B Norman Charitable Trust 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.
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.
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