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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND$35,000
VIRGINIA INTERFAITH CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION$33,000
TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY SERVICES$30,000
EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE$30,000
NORTH CAROLINA CLIMATE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE$30,000
GEORGIA STAND-UP$30,000
INSTITUTO LAB$30,000
UE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND$30,000
NEO PHILANTHROPY$30,000
WE THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT$30,000
NATIVE MOVEMENT$30,000
ISLAND WORKFORCE HOUSING$27,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 93 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

93 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
76

Total granted

$3.4M
$839k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+16%

Still filing today

43%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k 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
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

  • VI
    Virginia Interfaith Center For Public Policy
    3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +69%
  • CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +37%
  • NM
    NATIVE MOVEMENT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • NC
    NC CLIMATE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $35k
  • WC
    Workers Center For Racial Just NFPgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +42%
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.

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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 200 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/96
Grantees still filing
60/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Virginia Interfaith Center For Public Policy: $105,000 · OtherNATIVE MOVEMENT: $105,000 · Other+134 more: $2,594,102 · 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…North Carolina Climate Justice Collective: $30,000 · EnvironmentNorth Caro…CENTER FOR EARTH ENERGY AND DEMOCRACY: $30,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR…+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…CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $32,500 · EducationCHAPMAN U…TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP: $32,500 · EducationTRUSTEES …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 RightsARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE: $25,000 · Civil RightsSOMOS SIEMBRA: $25,000 · Civil RightsJUST TRANSITION NWI INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsMOTHERING JUSTICE: $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$2,804,102Environment$420,000Education$400,000Civil Rights$329,000Arts & Culture$229,500Human Services$194,500International$169,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVirginia Interfaith Center For Public Policy: $105,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $105,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $105,000 over 3y, 0.6% 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 budgetTEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY: $60,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTexas Campaign for the Environment Fund: $60,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetYouth Rise Texas Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHAWAII WORKERS CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetInstituto Lab: $60,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL TENNIS CLUB OF THE USA: $58,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals International: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM: $38,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP: $35,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNC WARN INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Carolina Climate Justice Collective: $30,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR EARTH ENERGY AND DEMOCRACY: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $29,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetSOMOS SIEMBRA: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFORWARD MT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJUST TRANSITION NWI INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPERA HOUSE ARTS: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Virginia Interfaith Center For Public Policy ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE MOVEMENT ↗
  • 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 TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY ↗
  • Who funds Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund ↗
  • Who funds Youth Rise Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII WORKERS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Instituto Lab ↗
  • Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL TENNIS CLUB OF THE USA ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals International ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND WORKFORCE HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…NEO Philanthropy IncWindward FundTides FoundationNew Venture FundNormandie Foundation …Hickrill Foundation I…Rockefeller Philanthr…Foundation to Promote…Solidaire Network IncCommon Counsel Founda…Lubo Fund Inc
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

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 Norman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
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, 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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 200 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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