Montana · Private foundation
Norwell Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $97k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2024
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 45
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $984k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Norwell Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 35 | $96k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $86k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $46k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $65k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $37k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $33k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $22k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Carter Center Inc | $20,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Campaign Legal Center Inc | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Montana Conservation Corps Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Yellowstone Coalition | $7,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Montana Wilderness Association | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hospitality House Senior Center | $6,485 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($172k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Norwell Fund 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 Kendeda Fund · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The High Stakes Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · The Fanwood Foundation · Park County Community Foundation · Wilburforce Foundation · Treacy Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Norwell Fund
- How much does Norwell Fund give?
- Norwell Fund reported 36 grants totaling $97,485 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Norwell Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Philanthropy (11%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Norwell Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ($26k), The Carter Center Inc ($21k), The Campaign Legal Center Inc ($14k).
- Does Norwell Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Norwell Fund 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 Norwell Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kendeda Fund, Montana Community Foundation Inc, The High Stakes Foundation.
- Where is Norwell Fund based?
- Norwell Fund is based in MT.
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