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Noris Foundation co Marion Thurnauer
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $365k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Evans Scholars Foundation | $150,000 |
| BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA | $110,000 |
| Guide Dogs for the Blind | $105,000 |
| PS 295 Parent Teacher Association I | $47,000 |
| Students Rising Above | $30,000 |
| Oregon State University Foundation | $30,000 |
| Meals on Wheels of Boulder Inc | $20,000 |
| Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra | $18,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Zoological Society of San Diego | $15,000 |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SECTION CLUB INC | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Gardens of golden gate park connects people to plants, the planet, and each other. the gardens offer educational and experiential programs for visitors and actively manages the living collections.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
The ecological society of america (esa) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization of scientists founded in 1915 to: promote ecological science by improving communication among ecologists; raise the public's level of awareness of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc and the most unlike its peers is P S 295 Parent Teacher Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds P S 295 PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds University Section Club Inc ↗
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.
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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 Noris Foundation co Marion Thurnauer 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.
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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