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Norton 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $20,000 |
| Lorain Historical Society | $12,000 |
| Lorain County Community College Foundation | $11,000 |
| St Bernadette School | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| North Helpline | $10,000 |
| Footpath Foundation | $10,000 |
| Magnificat High School | $10,000 |
| American Red Cross - Northern Ohio Region | $10,000 |
| Lorain County Free Clinic | $5,000 |
| Neighborhood Alliance | $5,000 |
| Good Knights of Lorain County | $5,000 |
| Family Planning Services of Lorain County | $5,000 |
| Cleveland Clinic | $5,000 |
| Lake Ridge Academy | $5,000 |
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, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- NANEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE5× · 2021–2025 · $66k · revenue +41%
- LHLORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +57%
- FFFOOTPATH FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- LPLorain Public Library - Avon Branchone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SASeattle Academyone grant, 2020 · $11k
- LPLorain Public Library- Avonone grant, 2020 · $10k
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 lorain county historical society collects, preserves, and shares the history of lorain county, ohio to educate and inspire present and future generations.
To develop and advance leaders who support the growth and diversity of our county by directing initiatives to connect the people, government, academia, and businesses of lorain county.
Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.
Oberlin community services council is a responsive community organization that provides direct assistance, referrals, outreach and educational support to lorain county residents who struggle to meet basic needs.
To preserve and enhance the well being of lorain countys older adults and adults with special needs by promoting their independence and community awareness and by utilizing
Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
Provide library services
Habitat for humanity engages in activities that promote and support community development in lorain county by serving lower-income residents and struggling neighborhoods
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Our goal is to provide our tenants with a gracious lifestyle in a safe, secure, residential setting. we will promote programs which encourage you to practice a healthy lifestyle. we will treat those we serve with dignity and respect. your…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Lorain County and the most unlike its peers is North Helpline. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 47 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 NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOOTPATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE RIDGE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLESSING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds GOOD KNIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES OF LORAIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds North Helpline ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FIREFISH ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY SAFE HARBOR CORP ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY HEALTH & DENTISTRY ↗
- Who funds COLD CREEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON ROOTS ↗
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: The Stocker Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Lorain County · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Lakeland Community Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Miraldi Family Pvt Fdn · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Patsie & Jenee Campana Foundation Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Lorain County Inc · Kevin and Gail Flanigan Foundation
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 Norton 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.
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.
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