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Norton Charitable Trust at a glance

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Norton Charitable Trust

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.

$119k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$440kReligion$203kArts & Culture$96kCommunity Improvement$55kMembership Benefit$40kPublic Benefit$39kYouth Development$25kHuman Services$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POTTER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION$26,225
MYRTLE GOSPEL TABERNACLE$18,327
HEBRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$17,000
AMERICAN LEGION$13,780
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$13,000
OSWAYO VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$12,423
Individual grant recipient$9,500
MILLPORT COMMUNITY CHURCH$6,500
OSWAYO VALLEY SR CENTER$2,498
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LEEK HUNTING AND MOUNTAIN PRESERVE: $10k → 9%HEBRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $20k → 15%LEEK HUNTING & MOUNTAIN PRESERVE: $9k → 9%HEBRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $17k → 15%HEBRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $13k → 15%HEBRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 15%LEEK PRESERVE: $10k → 15%LEEK PRESERVE: $10k → 15%HEBRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $9k → 15%OSWAYO VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $69k → 15%OSWAYO VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $63k → 15%OSWAYO VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $60k → 15%OSWAYO VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $47k → 15%OSWAYO VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $39k → 15%OSWAYO VALLEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY GENERAL FUND: $34k → 15%MYRTLE GOSPEL TABERNACLE: $32k → 15%POTTER COUNTY FAIR: $27k → 15%OSWAYO VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $26k → 15%POTTER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $26k → 15%CROSSTOWN ALLIANCE: $25k → 15%OSWAYO VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $22k → 15%MYRTLE GOSPEL TABERNACLE: $21k → 15%MAPLE GROVE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $21k → 15%OSWAYO VALLEY ROD & GUN: $20k → 15%MYRTLE GOSPEL TABERNACLE: $18k → 15%SHINGLEHOUSE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $17k → 15%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $17k → 15%OSWAYO VALLEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $17k → 15%SHINGLEHOUSE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $16k → 15%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $16k → 15%ELEVEN MILE CEMETERY: $14k → 15%AMERICAN LEGION: $14k → 15%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $14k → 15%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $13k → 15%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $13k → 15%OSWAYO VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $12k → 15%RATHBONE CEMETERY: $12k → 15%POTTER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $12k → 15%MAPLE GROVE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $11k → 15%RATHBONE CEMETERY: $10k → 15%POTTER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $9k → 15%EAST SHARON CEMETERY ASSOC: $8k → 15%OSWAYO VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7k → 15%OSWAYO VALLEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $7k → 15%POTTER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $7k → 15%MILLPORT COMMUNITY CHURCH: $7k → 15%MYRTLE GOSPEL TABERNACLE: $6k → 15%MYRTLE GOSPEL TABERNACLE: $6k → 15%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$876k · 16 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
8

Total granted

$876k
$91k

Still filing today

19%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • OV
    OSWAYO VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $304k
  • MG
    MYRTLE GOSPEL TABERNACLE
    5× · 2018–2024 · $84k
  • HC
    HEBRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $77k

Funded once

  • OV
    OSWAYO VALLEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY GENERAL FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $34k
  • OV
    OSWAYO VALLEY ROD & GUN
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $14k
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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 26 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
2/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OSWAYO VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $303,848 · OtherOSWAYO VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONMYRTLE GOSPEL TABERNACLE: $84,478 · OtherMYRTLE GOSPEL TABERNACLEHEBRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $76,905 · OtherHEBRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $72,040 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHPOTTER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $58,119 · OtherPOTTER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATIONOSWAYO VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $42,175 · OtherCROSSTOWN ALLIANCE: $35,167 · OtherOSWAYO VALLEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY GENERAL FUND: $33,500 · OtherSHINGLEHOUSE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $33,250 · OtherMAPLE GROVE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $31,980 · Other+14 more: $165,630 · Other+14 moreOswayo Valley Memorial Library: $25,445 · EducationLEEK HUNTING AND MOUNTAIN PRESERVE INC: $25,067 · Public Benefit
Other$937,092Education$25,445Public Benefit$25,067

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOTTER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $58,119 over 5y, 17% of budgetOswayo Valley Memorial Library: $25,445 over 3y, 27% of budgetLEEK HUNTING AND MOUNTAIN PRESERVE INC: $25,067 over 3y, 4.7% 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 POTTER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Oswayo Valley Memorial Library ↗
  • Who funds LEEK HUNTING AND MOUNTAIN PRESERVE INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Norton Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norton Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 26 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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