Illinois · 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.
- $156k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Norton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | $156k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $143k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $147k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $120k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $101k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $87k | 54% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $68k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Megan Butz Legacy of Hope | $25,200 | 3 | 2% |
| Friends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc | $21,500 | 3 | 0% |
| All Faiths Food Bank Inc | $20,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Let It Be US | $16,207 | 4 | 1% |
| The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc | $12,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Barrington's White House | $11,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Dressember Foundation | $10,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($581k), 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 Blackbaud Giving Fund · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Norton Family Foundation
- How much does Norton Family Foundation give?
- Norton Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $155,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Norton Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (42%), Health (21%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Norton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP ($27k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($26k), Megan Butz Legacy of Hope ($25k).
- Does Norton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% 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 Blackbaud Giving Fund, AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Norton Family Foundation based?
- Norton Family Foundation is based in IL.
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