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Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$9,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$8,000
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION$7,000
ST PETERSBURG FREE CLINIC FOOD PANTRY$7,000
CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL FOUNDATION$6,000
DENVER RESCUE MISSION$6,000
HAZELBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC$4,000
GATEWAY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES$3,000
USF FOUNDATION INC$3,000
FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY$3,000
THE DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION$3,000
DENVER SANTA CLAUS SHOP$2,000
CALVARY CHURCH$2,000
DENVER ZOO FOUNDATION$2,000
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 (FY20–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $7k → 13%FAMILY TREE INC: $500 → 7%FAMILY TREE INC: $500 → 7%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $7k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $6k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 12%DENVER RESUCUE MISSION: $3k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 12%GATEWAY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES: $3k → 12%GATEWAY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES: $3k → 12%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$445k · 41 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
12

Total granted

$445k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+35%

Still filing today

56%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +23%
  • DR
    DENVER RESCUE MISSION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +26%
  • St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $28k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • WC
    WELD COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • HL
    HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • A2
    AMERICAS 2ND HARVEST OF BIG BEND
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative Inc

Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…

Housing & Shelter
4
Denver Scholarship Foundation

Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…

Education
5
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
6
Denver Film Society

The mission of the denver film society is to develop opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences. we strive to cultivate and celebrate film as an art form; to enrich and expand the…

Arts & Culture
7
Mental Health Center of Denver

We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.

Health
8
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
9
Colorado Longitudinal Study

Advancing the health of people through advancing the science of medicine. the colorado longitudinal study (cols) is building the world's most comprehensive longitudinal collection of biological specimens matched with clinical health and…

Education
10
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
Nourish Colorado

Nourish colorado is a statewide nonprofit organization committed to strengthening connections between farms and communities so that all coloradans have equitable access to fresh, nutritious foods. we pursue systemic changes through state…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

30 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. 30 of the 55 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $32,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $28,000 · OtherSt Petersburg Free Clinic IncDENVER ZOO FOUNDATION: $24,000 · OtherDENVER ZOO FOUNDATIONMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $21,000 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INCSALVATION ARMY: $18,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $17,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICATHE DENVER SANTA CLAUSE SHOP INC: $15,500 · OtherTHE DENVER SANTA CLAUSE SHOP INCCHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $13,500 · OtherGE-LPS FOUNDATION: $11,000 · OtherHAZELBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $11,000 · OtherWELD COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS: $10,000 · OtherST PETERSBURG FREE CLINIC FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 · Other+23 more: $76,700 · Other+23 moreFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $51,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE …FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $19,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA T…MAUI FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $41,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE M…THREE BIRDS ALLIANCE: $17,000 · Human ServicesTHREE BIRDS ALL…METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN MI…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Diabetes Association: $8,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $4,000 · HealthDoreen Katz Memorial Cancer Foundation: $3,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 · HealthUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $8,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $4,000 · EducationWHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC: $2,500 · EducationMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $11,000 · PhilanthropyColumbine Community Foundation: $2,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBILL EDWARDS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureArvada Center for the Arts and Humanities: $4,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$287,700Food & Nutrition$73,000Human Services$66,000Health$17,000Education$15,000Philanthropy$14,000Arts & Culture$13,000

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

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 budgetColumbine Community Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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 FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
  • Who funds THREE BIRDS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE DENVER SANTA CLAUSE SHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BILL EDWARDS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities ↗
  • Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Doreen Katz Memorial Cancer Foundation ↗

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 FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Schlessman Foundation…Xcel Energy FoundationAnschutz Family Found…Daniels FundThe Colorado Health F…Mile High United Way …Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Network for Good
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leigh and Loretta Norgren Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home