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Norman Foundation Inc

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
70
Grants FY2024still arriving
26
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Civil Rights$735kEnvironment$622kEducation$562kCommunity Improvement$300kRecreation & Sports$274kEmployment$260kArts & Culture$254kPublic Benefit$251kOther$0
02FY2024 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $988k
$10,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS CAMPAIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT FUND$40,000
HAWAII WORKERS CENTER$40,000
VIRGINIA INTERFAITH CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$35,000
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION$33,000
NORTH CAROLINA CLIMATE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE$30,000
NATIVE MOVEMENT$30,000
TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY SERVICES$30,000
INSTITUTO LAB$30,000
EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE$30,000
GEORGIA STAND-UP$30,000
UE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND$30,000
WE THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT$30,000
NEO PHILANTHROPY$30,000
ISLAND WORKFORCE HOUSING$27,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HMONG AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $25k → 17%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $25k → 14%WE THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT: $30k → 21%WE THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT: $4k → 21%INSTITUTO LAB: $30k → 11%NEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE: $3k → 17%INSTITUTO LAB: $30k → 11%NEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE: $3k → 17%BROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION: $6k → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 92 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

92 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
78

Total granted

$3.3M
$849k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+16%

Still filing today

43%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +37%
  • NM
    NATIVE MOVEMENT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +34%
  • VI
    Virginia Interfaith Center For Public Policy
    3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • NC
    NC CLIMATE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • NC WARN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -27%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $35k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
4
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

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

8
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
9
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
10
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
11
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
12
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Island Workforce Housing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Construc…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Local History MuseumsLocal Food System Organizat…Youth Development CentersYouth Sports ProgramsYouth Development ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/99
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,466

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 202 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/96
Grantees still filing
59/96
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Virginia Interfaith Center For Public Policy — $105,000 · OtherNATIVE MOVEMENT — $105,000 · Other+134 more — $2,593,100 · Other+134 moreSHELBURNE FARMS — $80,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE …NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC — $74,000 · EnvironmentNORTH AMER…TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY — $60,000 · EnvironmentTEXAS ENVI…SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $55,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND…Earth Island Institute Inc — $45,000 · EnvironmentEarth Isla…NC WARN INC — $35,000 · EnvironmentNC WARN IN…CENTER FOR EARTH ENERGY AND DEMOCRACY — $30,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR…North Carolina Climate Justice Collective — $30,000 · EnvironmentNorth Caro…+2 more — $11,000 · EnvironmentUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $82,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…HAWAII WORKERS CENTER — $60,000 · EducationHAWAII WO…Wellesley College — $40,000 · EducationWellesley…TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP — $32,500 · EducationTRUSTEES …CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $32,500 · EducationCHAPMAN U…GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $30,000 · EducationGEORGIA A…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $29,500 · EducationPresident…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 · EducationTHE TRUST…SALISBURY SCHOOL INC — $15,000 · Education+11 more — $53,500 · Education+11 moreCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $105,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 · Civil RightsWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP — $35,000 · Civil RightsJUST TRANSITION NWI INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsMOTHERING JUSTICE — $25,000 · Civil RightsARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE — $25,000 · Civil RightsSOMOS SIEMBRA — $25,000 · Civil Rights+4 more — $39,000 · Civil RightsTHE AWOOD CENTER — $75,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE TIME INC — $69,000 · Arts & CultureHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM — $38,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA HOUSE ARTS — $20,000 · Arts & CultureFuerte Art Collective — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $12,500 · Arts & CultureInstituto Lab — $60,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesWe the People of Detroit — $33,500 · Human ServicesHmong American Womens Association Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesGEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $11,000 · Human ServicesUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND — $85,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $40,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $25,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $18,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · International
Other$2,803,100Environment$420,000Education$400,000Civil Rights$329,000Arts & Culture$229,500Human Services$194,500International$169,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $105,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT — $105,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVirginia Interfaith Center For Public Policy — $105,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND — $85,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $82,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL — $80,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AWOOD CENTER — $75,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC — $74,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC — $69,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetYouth Rise Texas Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetInstituto Lab — $60,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY — $60,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTexas Campaign for the Environment Fund — $60,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHAWAII WORKERS CENTER — $60,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL TENNIS CLUB OF THE USA — $58,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHumane World for Animals International — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND WORKFORCE HOUSING — $53,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley College — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM — $38,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNC WARN INC — $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP — $35,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE SAILING FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC — $35,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetWe the People of Detroit — $33,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP — $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR EARTH ENERGY AND DEMOCRACY — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNorth Carolina Climate Justice Collective — $30,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $29,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUST TRANSITION NWI INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOMOS SIEMBRA — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHmong American Womens Association Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFORWARD MT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA HOUSE ARTS — $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $18,000 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.

  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
  • Who funds NATIVE MOVEMENT
  • Who funds Virginia Interfaith Center For Public Policy
  • Who funds UE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc
  • Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS
  • Who funds THE AWOOD CENTER
  • Who funds NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC
  • Who funds Youth Rise Texas Inc
  • Who funds Instituto Lab
  • Who funds TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY
  • Who funds Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund
  • Who funds HAWAII WORKERS CENTER
  • Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL TENNIS CLUB OF THE USA
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals International
  • Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
  • Who funds ISLAND WORKFORCE HOUSING
  • Who funds CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND
  • Who funds Earth Island Institute 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.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC41.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Windward Fund · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Normandie Foundation Inc · Hickrill Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Solidaire Network Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Lubo Fund Inc

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 Norman Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 90%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc16% of income from government
  • Nashoba Learning Group Inc14% of income from government
  • Casa Inc8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms3% of income from government
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
  • Milton Academy0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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How do I get to Norman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Norman Foundation Inc 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 202 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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