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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $10,000 |
| MITE | $8,000 |
| TPUSA | $5,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| THE LYRIC THEATRE | $5,000 |
| MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CE | $5,000 |
| RANDOLPH COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF FL | $2,500 |
| DILWORTH CENTER | $2,500 |
| INREACH | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN OF VIETNAM | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| JAMIE KIMBLE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Norris Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- ACARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA3× · 2020–2024 · $28k · revenue +50%
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC6× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +86%
CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INCone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +9%
- EIEMITE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -4%
- AAARMY ANGLESone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…
The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.
Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.
Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.
We enrich the lives of those we serve by providing a nurturing environment that fosters joy, purpose, and well-being.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
Crittenton of North Carolina empowers women and children through education, health, residential care, and supportive services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Emite Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 49 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
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 ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency ↗
- Who funds InReach ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Jamie Kimble Foundation for Courage ↗
- Who funds FIGS OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARYING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds EMITE INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF VIETNAM ↗
- Who funds MISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS WITH A HEART INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds HOSKINS PARK MINISTRIES 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: 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
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 Norris Family Foundation 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.
- United Arts of Central Florida Inc — 1% 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.