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Norwex Foundation for A Brighter Future Inc

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.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$306kHuman Services$186kFood & Nutrition$137kPhilanthropy$85kEnvironment$46kHousing & Shelter$37kRecreation & Sports$37kYouth Development$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$36k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hope House Supportive and Transitio$10,140
Shoes from the Heart$7,000
Keen Stl Louis LLC$5,000
Isaiah 117 House LLC$5,000
HI Line Future Foundation$2,000
Scottish Rite for Childres$2,000
STBP1$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Kindness Project: $2k → 11%Fostering Hope: $10k → 6%Tiny Evie Rocks: $5k → 12%KSDS Assistance Dogs Inc: $3k → 10%Shoes from the Heart: $7k → 14%Jeremiah's Crossing: $15k → 11%Shower Up: $12k → 10%Isaiah 117 House LLC: $5k → 18%The Bloom Closet: $10k → 6%Sweet Dream in a Bag: $8k → 3%Bewhaus bakery: $2k → 16%The Coffee Oasis: $7k → 10%Foster Village Peoria: $10k → 14%Neediest Kids of All: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
ID
MT
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IL
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MI
NY
OR
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
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VA
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TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$270k · 6 repeat orgs$799k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
94

Total granted

$270k
$766k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+29%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Feeding America
    4× · 2018–2022 · $88k · revenue +77%
  • CH
    CANCER HOPE NETWORK
    6× · 2018–2023 · $80k · revenue +153%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $44k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Salvation Army
    one grant, 2019 · $51k
  • PI
    PLANT IT FORWARDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $32k · revenue +208%
  • TC
    THE CLARION SUNSHINE PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -71%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People

Brooke's Place provides support groups, therapy services and community education to empower children, teens, young adults and their families to thrive in the midst of grief.

Health
2
Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…

Education
3
Hope House of Sedona

Hope House of Sedona provides families experiencing homelessness access to safe haven, support, and tools for lasting stability.

Housing & Shelter
4
Foster Kinship

Foster Kinship supports all kinship families throughout Nevada. We assist grandparents, relatives, and fictive kin who are raising children through five core programs: 1- Enhanced Kinship Navigator Program - Provides intensive support to…

Human Services
5
Hope in a Suitcase

To provide children and teens entering and impacted by foster care with clothes, shoes, blankets, other essentials, and comfort items to help ease their transition. At a higher level, the mission is to spread awareness of the challenges…

Human Services
6
Survivor Resources

Survivor Resources is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing immediate and long-term emotional support and practical help to the families and friends of those who have died by homicide, suicide, accident, or overdose.

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7
Hope Crisis Center

Hope crisis center provides crisis line services and shelter to domestic violence and sexual assault victims

Health
8
Its Going to Be Ok Inc

Our mission is to work toward the eradication of human trafficking, particularly the sexual exploitation of women and children. It's Going To Be OK rescues and restores survivors by providing trauma-informed direct care services, including…

Food & Nutrition
9
Carole's House of Hope

Caroles House of Hope provides transitional living for young women and mothers who have aged out of foster care or have become homeless. Our home-like environment, paired with innovative programs and services, encourages self-sufficiency…

Public Benefit
10
Youth Care Inc

To transform the lives of children, adults, and families impacted by mental health, trauma and intellectual disabilities. Our goal is to change problematic and systematic behaviors and thinking to provide a positive outcome for…

Human Services
11
Restoration House of Greater Kansas City

ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.

Housing & Shelter
12
Family Hope House Inc

Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seeds of Caring; the most unlike its peers is Natures Mountain Classroom. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 107 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
39/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CANCER HOPE NETWORK: $80,486 · OtherCANCER HOPE NETWORKThe Salvation Army: $51,468 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyBreast Cancer Research Foundation: $33,333 · OtherBreast Cancer Research FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · Other+64 more: $421,548 · Other+64 moreFeeding America: $87,628 · Food & NutritionFeeding Ameri…PLANT IT FORWARD: $32,000 · Food & NutritionPLANT IT FORW…HIM Food Bank Inc: $5,000 · Food & NutritionJEREMIAH'S CROSSING INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'S C…Shower Up: $12,000 · Human ServicesShower UpFOSTERING HOPE AUSTIN: $10,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING HO…FOSTER VILLAGE PEORIA: $10,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER VILLA…Restored Hope Ministries Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesRestored Hop…BLOOM OUR YOUTH INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBLOOM OUR YO…A MEMORY GROWS: $7,500 · Human ServicesA MEMORY GRO…SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesSWEET DREAM …THE COFFEE OASIS: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE COFFEE O…SHOES FROM THE HEART: $7,000 · Human ServicesSHOES FROM T…NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL: $5,000 · Human ServicesISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesTiny Evie Rocks: $5,000 · Human Services+4 more: $10,500 · Human Services+4 moreTHE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC: $44,183 · HealthTHE BRIDGE B…THE CLARION SUNSHINE PROJECT: $25,000 · HealthTHE CLARION …ALEXANDRAS HOUSE: $15,000 · HealthALEXANDRAS H…NATURES MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM: $10,000 · HealthNATURES MOUN…HEALING ODYSSEY INC: $10,000 · HealthHEALING ODYS…ELEVATION HOUSE INC: $7,000 · HealthELEVATION HO…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentVICTORY LANE CAMP INC: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEEDS OF CARING: $10,200 · Youth DevelopmentKEEN ST LOUIS LLC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRY PIE: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentBACKLIGHT PRODUCTIONS: $2,700 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationFACE TO FACE ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalHOPE INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$611,835Food & Nutrition$124,628Human Services$121,500Health$117,183Youth Development$48,900Education$30,000Crime & Legal$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeeding America: $87,628 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER HOPE NETWORK: $80,486 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetTHE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC: $44,183 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPLANT IT FORWARD: $32,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE CLARION SUNSHINE PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJEREMIAH'S CROSSING INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetALEXANDRAS HOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHeartland Horse Heroes Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetShower Up: $12,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetVICTORY LANE CAMP INC: $12,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,849 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE AUSTIN: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHEALING ODYSSEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBEACHES GO GREEN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetA MEMORY GROWS: $7,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetSWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC: $7,500 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetELEVATION HOUSE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTHE COFFEE OASIS: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHOES FROM THE HEART: $7,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTake Me Home Pet Rescue Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM IN THE DELL ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFACE TO FACE ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIM Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE KAW INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSPARROW CLUBS USA: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSISTERCARE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRY PIE: $3,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBACKLIGHT PRODUCTIONS: $2,700 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetKSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BREWHAUS BAKERY CO: $2,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE KINDNESS PROJECT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHENANDOAH WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Textron Charitable Tr…Max & Victoria Dreyfu…Communities Foundatio…Enterprise Holdings F…Shell USA Company Fou…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…
Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353RI13.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Norwex Foundation for A Brighter Future Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norwex Foundation for A Brighter Future Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Norwex Foundation for A Brighter Future Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 107 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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