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Norberg Family Foundation

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.

$185k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$502kPhilanthropy$131kEducation$122kYouth Development$57kEnvironment$55kHuman Services$49kHealth$41kInternational$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k39 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART$60,000
ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY$41,000
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM$11,500
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$10,320
YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE$5,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KING COUNTY$5,000
RAINIER SCHOLARS$5,000
SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFOR$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBAR$3,500
VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL FOUNDATION$2,500
MUSEUM OF FLIGHT$2,500
LOBERO THEATRE SANTA BARBARA$2,500
SEATTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$2,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,500
KCTS$2,500
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 (FY17–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $500 → 9%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $500 → 9%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $500 → 9%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $500 → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $6k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $6k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $5k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $5k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $5k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
NJ
CA
CO
VA
TN
HI
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 60 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
15

Total granted

$1.0M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+40%

Still filing today

63%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalAnimalsYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • ET
    ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $134k · revenue +44%
  • SA
    SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +0%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871)
    6× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION - BIRNAM WOOD FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +28%
  • CG
    CHIHULY GARDEN AND GLASS
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
2
Sacramento Zoological Society

The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.

Animals
3
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
6
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
7
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
8
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

—
9
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
10
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
11
Seattle Public Library Foundation

The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.

Education
12
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cascadia Art Museum. 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

45 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. 45 of the 82 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART: $127,425 · OtherSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ARTUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $22,591 · OtherVIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $22,500 · OtherSEATTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherLOBERO THEATRE SANTA BARBARA: $17,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ATHLETICS: $17,172 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES: $16,887 · OtherTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $31,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER…BOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC: $23,000 · Other+43 more: $171,727 · Other+43 moreENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $134,300 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANT…SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $124,322 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEUMMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $19,900 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATIONCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $16,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $115,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyRAINIER SCHOLARS: $20,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $19,225 · EducationVILLAGEREACH: $12,000 · EducationVILLA ACADEMY: $8,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationWilliam D Ruckelshaus Center Foundation: $7,500 · Education+2 more: $1,500 · EducationTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST: $9,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $8,500 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $8,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc: $7,367 · EnvironmentDUNGENESS RIVER NATURE CENTER: $4,500 · EnvironmentPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE: $2,000 · EnvironmentARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EnvironmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,500 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $13,000 · InternationalMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $8,000 · International
Other$469,802Arts & Culture$309,522Philanthropy$120,500Education$75,725Environment$42,867Recreation & Sports$39,000International$34,500

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 budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $134,300 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $124,322 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $115,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC: $23,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $19,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $19,225 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGEREACH: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVILLA ACADEMY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam D Ruckelshaus Center Foundation: $7,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $7,367 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARTSFUND: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDUNGENESS RIVER NATURE CENTER: $4,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLONG LIVE THE KINGS: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MT BAKER COMMUNITY CLUB: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $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 ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGEREACH ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds VILLA ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds William D Ruckelshaus Center Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationWyman Youth TrustApex FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…M J Murdock Charitabl…Mightycause Charitabl…Gs Donor Advised Phil…United Way of King Co…ArtsfundStevens Family Founda…Riley W and Nancy a P…The Hugh and Jane Fer…
Seattle FoundationWA33.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Apex Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · United Way of King County · Artsfund · Stevens Family Foundation · Riley W and Nancy a Pleas Family Foundation · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson 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 Norberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norberg Family Foundation. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–40%
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 82 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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