How much does Noren Foundation Trust give?

Noren Foundation Trust reported 10 grants totaling $270,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Noren Foundation Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (26%), Health (23%), Housing & Shelter (12%).

Who are Noren Foundation Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: FEAST Inc ($180k), J Arthur Dosher Memorial Hospital ($175k), Metropolitan Ministries Inc ($144k).

Does Noren Foundation Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Noren Foundation Trust 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 Noren Foundation Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc, Cape Fear Memorial Foundation.

Where is Noren Foundation Trust based?

Noren Foundation Trust is based in OH.

Noren Foundation Trust

Noren Foundation Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Noren Foundation Trust

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.

$270k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$468kHealth$407kHousing & Shelter$214kHuman Services$205kEducation$190kAnimals$110kArts & Culture$100kInternational$65kOther$0

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k9 grants · $220k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
J ARTHUR DOSHER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	$50,000
PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FNDN INC	$40,000
DOGS INC	$25,000
FEAST INC	$25,000
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC	$25,000
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF	$25,000
FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC	$20,000
DE LA SALLE ACADEMY	$20,000
VALERIES HOUSE INC	$20,000
ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC	$20,000

02The need

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, $364k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

$1.6M · 19 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+20%

Still filing today

68%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHealthInternationalOther

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

FI
FEAST Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +264%
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $144k · revenue +38%
PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +7%

Funded once

St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +3%
CF
COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +16%
LO
LACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%

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.

Coastal Harvest

Feed the hungry and assist our partner agencies free of charge.

Human Services

Good Samaritan Health Centers Inc

To ensure free access to high-quality, compassionate healthcare that improves the lives of uninsured adult residents in St. Johns County, Florida.

Health

Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc

Mother Hubbard's Cupboard serves the hungry in the Wilmington area through distribution of emergency food. This service is provided without discrimination by volunteers in collarboration with community organizations and businesses with…

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Virginia Peninsula Foodbank

To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.

Food & Nutrition

Feeding the Gulf Coast

The Organization is a tax-exempt food distribution center committed to providing nutritionally balanced food for hungry people in 24 counties in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.

Food & Nutrition

Feeding Dreams Inc

The mission of Feeding Dreams to combat childhood hunger and malnutrition that affect one in five children in Florida. Through grants, fundraising efforts, and school partnerships, we delivered 2.5 million highly nutritious meals to…

Food & Nutrition

St Francis House

Empowering families with chidren to achieve permanent and stable self-sufficiency by providing case management; nutritious meals; and educational, health and career resources; in a safe and secure environment.

Housing & Shelter

South County Food Pantry Inc

Hunger relief for the indigent. The South County Food Pantry provides food to families and individuals in the Venice, Nokomis, Laurel & Osprey, areas of FL. SCFP distributes to more than 400 family units per month.

Food & Nutrition

Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc

Feeding Northeast Florida works to permanently end hunger in Northeast Florida by providing nutritious foods and other essential goods to people facing hunger, by addressing food insecurity, poverty and poor health through education and…

Food & Nutrition

St Peters Kitchen Inc

"To create a warm welcoming community that goes beyond providing immediate nourishment, by empowering our guests with hope and a pathway to a healthy and safe future."

Food & Nutrition

Brunswick Food Pantry Inc

Providing food to the food insecure.

Human Services

Feeding South Florida Inc

Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is St James Nest Inc. 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, 2017–2025.

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. 19 of the 28 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

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

Other$745,000Human Services$363,500Education$185,000Philanthropy$180,000Food & Nutrition$127,500Housing & Shelter$70,000Health$62,000International$40,000

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

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.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC17× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Noren Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Noren Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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