· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| St Bernadette School | $11,000 |
| Lorain County Community College Foundation | $11,000 |
| North Helpline | $10,000 |
| Footpath Foundation | $10,000 |
| American Red Cross - Northern Ohio Region | $10,000 |
| Magnificat High School | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Lorain County Free Clinic | $5,000 |
| Cleveland Clinic | $5,000 |
| Lake Ridge Academy | $5,000 |
| Good Knights of Lorain County | $5,000 |
| Family Planning Services of Lorain County | $5,000 |
| Neighborhood Alliance | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +66%
Funded once
- LPLorain Public Library - Avon Branchone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SASeattle Academyone grant, 2020 · $11k
- LCLorain County Community Foundationone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds North Helpline ↗
- 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 ↗
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
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.
How this is measured
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