Connecticut · Private foundation
Norwitt Family Charitable 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $335,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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 | 4 | $1.8M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $593k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $250k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $300k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $685k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $380k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgetown University | $1,360,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc | $585,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Hopkins School Incorporated | $470,000 | 4 | 1% |
| White House Historical Association | $335,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc | $240,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Advancect Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 100% |
| University of Michigan | $150,000 | 2 | 38% |
| The Insead Management Education Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($441k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Pf & Rj Morganti Foundation · Gordon F & Jocelyn B Linke Foundation · Patrick Foundation · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · Jean Widmark and Richard Widmark Foundation Inc · Taylor-Zemo Foundation Inc · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust
How this is measured
Compare Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $1,770,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Health (16%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgetown University ($1.4M), The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc ($585k), Hopkins School Incorporated ($470k).
- Does Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Norwitt Family Charitable 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 Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc, Synchrony Foundation.
- Where is Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation is based in CT.
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