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Norn Group

To accelerate the development of therapies that slow or reverse human aging and age-related diseases, through various activities including supporting research and data collection that improves our understanding of aging biology, training people to work in this field, produce events and materials that educate about aging and its…

$185k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$243k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$22MEducation$1.9MScience & Tech$578k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$243,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UK Bio Bank$243,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $440k → 8%Northeastern University: $792k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $389k → 11%University of Pittsburgh: $220k → 11%Stanford University: $771k → 8%BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING: $300k → 8%University of California Berkeley: $330k → 10%J David Gladstone Institutes: $385k → 10%Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute: $329k → 11%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $220k → 7%Columbia University: $275k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $264k → 14%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (BCM) HOUSTON TX: $330k → 16%OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $626k → 16%UW-MADISON DEPOSIT: $431k → 10%Oregon Health and Science University: $506k → 12%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $220k → 7%CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $220k → 17%SEATTLE CHILDRENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $256k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $440k → 14%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $361k → 22%NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING NIH: $495k → 8%THE JACKSON LABORATORY (JAX): $330k → 11%WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE AND MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $330k → 8%MIT (Brigham and Women's Hospital): $440k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $583k → 8%UK Bio Bank: $243k → 10%University of Rochester: $440k → 14%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $266k → 17%Baylor College of Medicine: $220k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON: $385k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $2.3M → 9%NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING: $490k → 8%Whitehead InstituteMIT: $330k → 8%Harvard Medical School: $308k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $660k → 10%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $550k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE & SCRI: $385k → 9%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $385k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $402k → 10%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $495k → 17%University of Washington: $261k → 9%UCSF: $354k → 10%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $486k → 8%Harvard University: $330k → 8%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $323k → 8%BROAD INSTITUTE: $263k → 8%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $237k → 8%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

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WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
OK
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $1.2M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.2M · 100% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: Funding Aging Research

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.4M · 6 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
36

Total granted

$7.4M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+4%

Still filing today

67%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationScience & TechRecreation & SportsSocial ScienceOther
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

  • WI
    WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
    2× · 2022–2024 · $770k · revenue +100%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    2× · 2022–2024 · $550k · revenue +19%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · $550k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $792k · revenue +6%
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $626k · revenue +27%
  • OH
    OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $506k
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.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
5
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
9
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
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Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
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The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.

Education
12
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; the most unlike its peers is Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. 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

30 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. 30 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $2,934,618 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $2,159,191 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $506,000 · OtherNATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING NIH: $495,000 · OtherNATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING: $490,000 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $485,100 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $431,275 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $389,400 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: $378,395 · OtherVCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUS: $360,968 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $330,000 · Other+8 more: $915,006 · Other+8 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,024,480 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,452,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,353,639 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFO…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,296,146 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $792,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYBaylor College of Medicine: $550,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $550,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER+7 more: $1,147,620 · Education+7 moreWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $770,000 · HealthWHITEHEAD INSTITU…Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $626,174 · HealthOklahoma Medical …THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $385,000 · HealthTHE J DAVID GLADS…THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $330,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABOR…SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $328,783 · HealthSANFORD BURNHAM P…UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $264,000 · HealthUT SOUTHWESTERN H…The Broad Institute Inc: $263,382 · HealthThe Broad Institu…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $256,391 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'…THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $220,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLI…THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $165,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $127,600 · Health+1 more: $52,800 · HealthTHE SCINTILLON INSTITUTE: $357,500 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $220,000 · Science & TechNorthwestern University: $440,000 · Recreation & SportsBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING: $433,156 · Social Science
Other$9,874,953Education$9,165,885Health$3,789,130Science & Tech$577,500Recreation & Sports$440,000Social Science$433,156

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,024,480 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,452,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,353,639 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,296,146 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $792,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $770,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $626,174 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $550,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $550,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $440,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING: $433,156 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $385,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SCINTILLON INSTITUTE: $357,500 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $330,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $328,783 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $265,594 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $264,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $263,382 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $256,391 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $220,021 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $220,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $220,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $220,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $189,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $165,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $165,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $127,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $52,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidwestern University: $33,000 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.

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.

Alzheimer's Disease &…University of Pittsbu…Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association IncIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · University of Pittsburgh · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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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How do I get to Norn Group?

Find your warmest path to Norn Group 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 49 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. 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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where grant money is based, and what stays home