· 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| EL CAMINO HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PERSONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ABOVE AND BEYOND FAMILY RECOVERY CENTER | $10,000 |
| MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS | $10,000 |
| MEGAN BUTZ LEGACY OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| NEUROBALANCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST MARATHA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,000 |
| THE RINGLING MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| YOUTH RENEWAL | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - BOOTH BUSINESS SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SAINT ANNE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Norton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 27%.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAAbove and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP5× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +91%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue ×12- FOFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA4× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
- NCNEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SCSAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Transforming lives and communities through excellence in care, discovery and learning.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 70 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 Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEGAN BUTZ LEGACY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LET IT BE US ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BARRINGTON'S WHITE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Dressember Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA TAU OMEGA FRATERNITY INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds EAST ST LOUIS WRESTLING CLUB ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE FLATWATER FOUNDATON ↗
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
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.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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