· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sweet Grass Arts Alliance | $12,000 |
| Keuka College Scholorship | $7,000 |
| Hospitality House Senior Center | $6,485 |
| Charity Navigatororg | $6,000 |
| Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance | $5,000 |
| MEIC | $5,000 |
| Planned Parenthood MT | $5,000 |
| The Carter Center Inc | $5,000 |
| Union of Concerned Scientists | $5,000 |
| Wild Montana | $5,000 |
| Center for Reproductive Rights | $5,000 |
| Montana Conservation Corps | $3,000 |
| Valley of the Flowers Project | $2,500 |
| High Country News | $2,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SUSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance6× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +134%
- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +32%
- MCMONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -12%
- CWCycling without Age Rapid Cityone grant, 2019 · $1k
- LELWVAZ Ed Fundone grant, 2021 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Flathead land trust is dedicated to the conservation of northwest montana's land and water legacy through voluntary agreements with private land owners. flt's primary program service is private land conservation through voluntary…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
Northern Plains believes people working together can make a difference. Our mission is to organize Montanans to protect our water, land, air, and working landscapes; support a healthy, localized, and sustainable economy in farm and ranch…
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Yellowstone Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Hospitality House Senior Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 88 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MONTANA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA AUDUBON ↗
- Who funds ACLU OF MONTANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BRIDGERCARE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Norwell Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.