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Norann Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GREATER GOOD | $15,000 |
| SAINT AGNES CHURCH | $5,000 |
| URSULINE SISTERS | $5,000 |
| NATURE CONVERSANCY | $1,800 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION | $1,500 |
| SAINT JOAN OF ARC CHURCH | $1,500 |
| BIRTHRIGHT GEAUGA | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $600 |
| CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
| JUDSON FOUNDATION | $500 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $400 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $300 |
| HOSPICE OF WESTERN RESERVE | $300 |
| HOLDEN FOREST & GARDENS | $300 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $300 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CSCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC4× · 2018–2022 · $6k · revenue +38%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +11%
- BGBIRTHRIGHT GEAUGA INC5× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- MOMISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZED CHARITIESone grant, 2020 · $3k
- CRCatholic Relief Servicesone grant, 2018 · $3k
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To provide lending, savings, and other financial services to its members at terms generally better than available in the marketplace and with a service-based emphasis that recognizes the members' status as owners.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
As a catholic health care organization, our mission at mercy medical center is to continue christ's healing ministry by providing quality, compassionate, accessible and affordable care for the whole person.on february 1, 2021, the…
We, mount carmel health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mount carmel health system is a member of trinity health.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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. 19 of the 44 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT GEAUGA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds JUDSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Womankind Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust · The Cleveland Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Norann 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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