· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $988k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 FUND3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +37%- NMNATIVE MOVEMENT3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +34%
- VIVirginia Interfaith Center For Public Policy3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- NCNC CLIMATE JUSTICE COLLECTIVEone grant, 2023 · $40k
NC WARN INCone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -27%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $35k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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…
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…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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.
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.
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Nashoba Learning Group Inc — 14% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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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