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Norton Family Foundation at a glance

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Norton Family Foundation

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.

$310k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

International$645kEnvironment$216kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kArts & Culture$21kPhilanthropy$10kCommunity Improvement$10kAnimals$2kEducation$500
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$750k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAASAI WILDERNESS CONSERVATION FUND$200,000
CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION$100,000
THE HOMETOWN OUTREACH FUND$10,000
02The need
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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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%HARLEM GROWN INC: $65k → 17%FDNY FOUNDATION: $40k → 20%CHIVE CHARITES: $10k → 10%GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $50k → 15%THE HOMETOWN OUTREACH FUND: $10k → 10%ECOFLIGHT: $3k → 6%CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN LAND TRUST: $3k → 12%CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL: $500 → 17%CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE: $10k → 17%CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $5k → 17%TURTLE CONSERVANCY: $2k → 17%SIGNATURE THEATRE: $5k → 17%LYCEUM THEATRE: $1k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 56% of Norton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Norton Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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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Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
2
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
3
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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4
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
5
Int'l Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - Us

Iucn-us fund builds bridges between us donors and iucn by catalyzing, accelerating, funding and promoting iucn's work - conserving nature and natural resources in the united states and throughout the world.

Environment
6
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
7
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
8
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
9
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment
10
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
11
The Cultural Landscape Foundation

A non-profit established in 1998, the cultural landscape foundation (tclf) connects people to places. tclf educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards.…

Arts & Culture
12
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the High Line Inc; the most unlike its peers is Maasai Wilderness Conservation Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAASAI WILDERNESS CONSERVATION FUND: $595,000 · InternationalMAASAI WILDERNESS CONSERVATION FUNDConservation Lands Foundation: $145,000 · EnvironmentConservation Lands Founda…HARLEM GROWN INC: $65,000 · EnvironmentHARLEM GROWN INC+2 more: $6,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGLOBAL EMP…FDNY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFDNY FOUND…THE HOMETOWN OUTREACH FUND: $10,000 · OtherSIGNATURE THEATRE: $5,000 · OtherGREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $5,000 · OtherLYCEUM THEATRE: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherCHIVE CHARITIES: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTURTLE CONSERVANCY: $1,850 · Animals
International$595,000Environment$216,000Public Safety & Disaster$90,000Other$21,500Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Animals$1,850

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 budgetMAASAI WILDERNESS CONSERVATION FUND: $595,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation: $145,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC: $65,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHIVE CHARITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECOFLIGHT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTURTLE CONSERVANCY: $1,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $500 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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Norton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norton Family Foundation. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 15 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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