North Carolina · Private foundation
Norris Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $66k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Norris Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $61k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $67k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $62k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $62k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $80k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $48k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $2k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $2k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts Center of Coastal Carolina | $27,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc | $21,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Charlotte Rescue Mission | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| InReach | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Randolph College Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Hope Center at Pullen Inc | $12,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Carolina Ballet Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| United Arts of Central Florida Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($134k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Norris Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Realtor Foundation of Wake County · John William Pope Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
About Norris Family Foundation
- How much does Norris Family Foundation give?
- Norris Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $66,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Norris Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (21%), Arts & Culture (19%), Health (16%).
- Who are Norris Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina ($28k), Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc ($21k), Charlotte Rescue Mission ($17k).
- Does Norris Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Norris Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Norris Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation.
- Where is Norris Family Foundation based?
- Norris Family Foundation is based in NC.
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