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Leigh and Loretta 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.

$77k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
31
Organizations funded FY2024
19%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$9,000
Organizations funded a year
25 to 34
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$77k5%
FY202431$88k19%
FY202334$74k24%
FY202225$74k12%
FY202129$75k10%
FY202033$96kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$88kFood & Nutrition$68kHealth$58kEducation$43kPublic Safety & Disaster$29kAnimals$23kArts & Culture$22kPhilanthropy$19kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($178k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $51,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $41,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMote Marine Laboratory Inc: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America Tampa Bay Inc: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThree Birds Alliance: $17,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Denver Santa Clause Shop Inc: $15,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCherry Creek Schools Foundation: $13,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMile High United Way Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Homeless Families Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Ministries Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBill Edwards Foundation for the Arts Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Health and Hospitals Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArvada Center for the Arts and Humanities: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Botanic Gardens Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaui Food Bank Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDoreen Katz Memorial Cancer Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetWhiz Kids Tutoring Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Art Museum: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Spruce Habitat for Humanity: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Tree Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaui United Way: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlayworks Education Energized: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

The Denver FoundationCO22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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.

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About Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation

How much does Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation give?
Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $77,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Health (14%).
Who are Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Food Bank of the Rockies ($51k), Denver Rescue Mission ($41k), St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ($28k).
Does Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Schlessman Foundation Inc.
Where is Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation based?
Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation is based in CO.

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 55 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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