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Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family 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.

$89k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
70%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$37,500
Organizations funded a year
4 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$276k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 70% of the organizations Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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 arriving9$89k33%
FY202410$90k70%
FY20234$161k25%
FY202211$319k27%
FY202110$327k40%
FY20209$340k33%
FY201914$329k36%
FY201813$332k31%
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.8MPhilanthropy$100kArts & Culture$82kHuman Services$74kHousing & Shelter$51kPublic Safety & Disaster$49kHealth$45kEducation$44kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Greater High Point Inc$89,00051%
Open Door Ministries of High Point Inc$50,75051%
Catholic Relief Services$49,0003n/a
High Point University$42,02920%
Sisters of Charity St Vincent Depaul Social Minist$31,50061%
Victory Junction Gang Camp Inc$25,00040%
Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church$20,0002n/a
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church$11,5001n/a
Community Collaboration for Children Inc$10,00022%
Junior League of High Point Nc Inc$10,00015%
Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Greater High Point Inc$89,00051%
Open Door Ministries of High Point Inc$50,75051%
Catholic Relief Services$49,0003n/a
High Point University$42,02920%
Sisters of Charity St Vincent Depaul Social Minist$31,50061%
Victory Junction Gang Camp Inc$25,00040%
Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church$20,0002n/a
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church$11,5001n/a
Community Collaboration for Children Inc$10,00022%
Junior League of High Point Nc Inc$10,00015%
High Point Arts Council Inc$5,00021%
Community Clinic of High Point Inc$5,00050%
High Point Community Against Violence Inc$5,0001n/a
Greater High Point Food Alliance$5,00013%
Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte Nc$2,5001n/a
Family Service of High Point Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Children's Law Center of Central North Carolina$1,50010%
Theatre Art Galleries Inc$1,00010%
High Point Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association$5251n/a
Room at the Inn Inc$50010%
Light House Group Inc$50021%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Greater High Point Inc: $89,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOpen Door Ministries of High Point Inc: $50,750 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHigh Point University: $42,029 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSisters of Charity St Vincent Depaul Social Minist: $31,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetVictory Junction Gang Camp Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Collaboration for Children Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetJunior League of High Point Nc Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHigh Point Arts Council Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Clinic of High Point Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGreater High Point Food Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFamily Service of High Point Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Law Center of Central North Carolina: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTheatre Art Galleries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRoom at the Inn Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLight House Group Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.6% 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 15.

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 Apat & Kathryne Lbrown FoundationNC22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Apat & Kathryne Lbrown Foundation · Foster Foundation Inc · Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · McInnis Family Foundation · The Ann G and Vann York Foundation · David R Hayworth Foundation · High Point Community Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation

How much does Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation give?
Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $88,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (69%), Philanthropy (4%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Greater High Point Inc ($89k), Open Door Ministries of High Point Inc ($51k), Catholic Relief Services ($49k).
Does Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family 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 Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Apat & Kathryne Lbrown Foundation, Foster Foundation Inc, Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation.
Where is Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation based?
Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation is based in NC.

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 49 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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