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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.

$565k
Granted FY2017
12
Grants FY2017
7
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $365k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
02

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.

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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.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY SECTION CLUB INC: $10k → 10%Students Rising Above: $30k → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%PS 295 Parent Teacher Association I: $47k → 20%Oregon State University Foundation: $30k → 18%Best Friends Animal Society: $15k → 9%Meals on Wheels of Boulder Inc: $20k → 12%Evans Scholars Foundation: $150k → 14%Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra: $18k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
San Francisco Zoological Society

To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.

Animals
2
California Academy of Sciences

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,…

Arts & Culture
3
Sacramento Zoological Society

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

Animals
4
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
5
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
6
San Francisco Botanical Garden Society At Strybing Arboretum

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.

Environment
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

8
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
9
American Geophysical Union

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…

Science & Tech
10
University of California San Francisco Foundation

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…

Education
11
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Ecological Society of America

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…

Environment

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.

03the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Evans Scholars Foundation — $150,000 · OtherEvans Scholars FoundationUniversity Section Club Inc — $10,000 · OtherUniversity Section Club IncBOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC — $110,000 · EnvironmentBOTANICAL SOCIETY OF A…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $105,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BL…P S 295 PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION INC — $47,000 · EducationP S 295 PARENT …Oregon State University Foundation — $30,000 · EducationOregon State Un…MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $15,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY …BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $15,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIE…ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $15,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICA…FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE — $30,000 · PhilanthropyMEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionBOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — $18,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$160,000Environment$110,000Human Services$105,000Education$77,000Animals$45,000Philanthropy$30,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Arts & Culture$18,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC — $110,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $105,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOregon State University Foundation — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — $18,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Oregon State University Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Noris Foundation co Marion Thurnauer?

Find your warmest path to Noris Foundation co Marion Thurnauer 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2018) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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