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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.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$61kPhilanthropy$33kHuman Services$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kEnvironment$11kHealth$3kEducation$3kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GREATER GOOD$15,000
URSULINE SISTERS$5,000
SAINT AGNES CHURCH$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
SALVATION ARMY$300
HOSPICE OF WESTERN RESERVE$300
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$300
HOLDEN FOREST & GARDENS$300
02The need
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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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $2k → 9%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $1k → 9%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $1k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $2k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $2k → 17%Catholic Social Services: $1k → 17%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$126k · 25 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
15

Total granted

$126k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+19%

Still filing today

44%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CS
    CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $6k · revenue +38%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +11%
  • BG
    BIRTHRIGHT GEAUGA INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • MO
    MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZED CHARITIES
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • CR
    Catholic Relief Services
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +38%
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
Mercy Health

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…

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2
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
3
Cleveland Botanical Garden

The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.

Environment
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
Genfed Financial Credit Union Inc

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.

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6
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
7
Global Cleveland

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.

Human Services
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
Ohio State Bar Association

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.

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10
Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital

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…

Health
11
Mount Carmel Health System

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.

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12
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Saint Joan of Arc Church: $28,000 · OtherSaint Joan of Arc ChurchTHE GREATER GOOD: $26,500 · OtherTHE GREATER GOODURSULINE SISTERS: $18,000 · OtherURSULINE SISTERSSAINT AGNES CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherSAINT AGNES CHURCHCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $9,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $8,300 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY+26 more: $24,385 · Other+26 moreCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $5,600 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $3,500 · Human ServicesBIRTHRIGHT GEAUGA INC: $3,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $600 · Civil RightsMercy Ships International: $1,300 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $650 · InternationalWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $1,500 · EnvironmentTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $300 · EnvironmentTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthWomankind Inc: $500 · HealthOHIO CANCER RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: $100 · HealthJUDSON FOUNDATION: $1,250 · Philanthropy
Other$129,185Human Services$9,100Civil Rights$3,600International$1,950Environment$1,800Health$1,600Philanthropy$1,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $8,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $5,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT GEAUGA INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDSON FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $1,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomankind Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWKHR RADIO INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO CANCER RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: $100 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 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 Womankind Inc ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗

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.

Fred a Lennon Charita…The Cleveland Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fred a Lennon Charitable TrustOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Norann Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norann Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Norann Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Norann Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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