Ohio · Private foundation
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.
- $145k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 20
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $994k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Norton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 | 22 | $145k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $128k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $122k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $114k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $122k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $95k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neighborhood Alliance | $65,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Lorain Historical Society | $61,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Footpath Foundation | $50,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Lake Ridge Academy | $46,120 | 6 | 0% |
| Magnificat High School | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Lorain County Community College Foundation | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Blessing House | $27,260 | 5 | 1% |
| Girl Scouts of North East Ohio | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Good Knights Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Family Planning Services of Lorain County | $13,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neighborhood Alliance | $65,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Lorain Historical Society | $61,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Footpath Foundation | $50,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Lake Ridge Academy | $46,120 | 6 | 0% |
| Magnificat High School | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Lorain County Community College Foundation | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Blessing House | $27,260 | 5 | 1% |
| Girl Scouts of North East Ohio | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Good Knights Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Family Planning Services of Lorain County | $13,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Lorain County Free Clinic Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Lorain County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| North Helpline | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Firefish Arts Inc | $7,500 | 4 | 3% |
| El Centro de Servicios Sociales Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lorain County Safe Harbor Corp | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lorain County Health & Dentistry | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cold Creek Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Common Roots | $1,434 | 3 | 0% |
| Sweetgrass Advocacy | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The University of Toledo Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Allegheny College | $75 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($285k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Norton 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Norton Family Foundation
- How much does Norton Family Foundation give?
- Norton Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $145,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Norton Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Human Services (16%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
- Who are Norton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Neighborhood Alliance ($66k), Lorain Historical Society ($62k), Footpath Foundation ($51k).
- Does Norton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Norton 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 Norton Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Stocker Foundation, The Nord Family Foundation, Community Foundation of Lorain County.
- Where is Norton Family Foundation based?
- Norton Family Foundation is based in OH.
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