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Norwood Foundation 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.

$172k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$22k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$501kEducation$244kArts & Culture$54kPublic Safety & Disaster$29kHuman Services$27kAnimals$20kScience & Tech$19kReligion$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS - LA FIRES$21,500
THE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER$10,000
NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL$10,000
MIDDLESEX SCHOOL$10,000
THE LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$7,500
DUKE UNIVERSITY$5,000
GREENWICH ACADEMY$5,000
ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL-JACKSON$5,000
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB$5,000
BOZEMAN HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
PIPING ROCK SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,000
SMILE TRAIN$5,000
BOZEMAN FIELD SCHOOL$5,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION$5,000
CHRIST CHURCH GREENWICH$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PEACE 4 KIDS: $2k → 14%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

ME
VT
MT
IL
NY
MA
WY
IA
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$786k · 34 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
22

Total granted

$786k
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+26%

Still filing today

76%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentScience & TechPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $133k · revenue +8%
  • GH
    GREENWICH HOSPITAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +20%
  • NS
    NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • GC
    GLEN COVE HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +18%
  • NW
    National Women's Health Network
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • P
    PBS
    one 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.

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
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Andrew K Dwyer Foundation. 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

43 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. 43 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
27/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $133,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INCGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $67,000 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITALNORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $64,500 · HealthNORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $31,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS A…GLEN COVE HOSPITAL: $17,500 · HealthPennys Flight Foundation Inc: $15,000 · Health+4 more: $19,000 · Health+4 moreMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $60,000 · EducationMIDDLESEX SCHOOLGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $30,000 · EducationGREENWICH ACADEMY INCDUKE UNIVERSITY: $19,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYFRIENDS ACADEMY: $19,000 · EducationFRIENDS ACADEMYCIRQUE LODGE FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EducationCIRQUE LODGE FOUNDATIONBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $17,500 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INCBIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC dba BIG SKY DISCOVERY ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationBIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC d…GREEN VALE SCHOOL: $13,500 · EducationGREEN VALE SCHOOLBozeman Field School Inc: $12,530 · EducationTEACHING MATTERS INC: $12,500 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationPIPING ROCK SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $10,000 · Education+4 more: $14,500 · Education+4 moreNORTH SHORE HOSPITAL: $27,500 · OtherNORTH SHORE HOSPITALHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION: $22,500 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FO…NEW YORK HOSPITAL: $22,000 · OtherNEW YORK HOSPITALAMERICAN RED CROSS - LA FIRES: $21,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS - LA FIRESST JOHN'S HOSPITAL-JACKSON: $20,000 · OtherST JOHN'S HOSPITAL-JACKSONOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $20,000 · OtherOld Westbury Gardens IncIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLD SPRINGS HARBOR LAB: $12,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE AT THE MARIA FARERI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · Other+20 more: $94,000 · Other+20 moreTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBozeman Deaconess Foundation: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OYSTER BAY INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · AnimalsPEACE 4 KIDS: $12,000 · Human Services
Health$347,000Education$251,530Other$265,000Arts & Culture$23,500Philanthropy$22,500Animals$20,000Human Services$12,000

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 budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $133,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $67,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $64,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBozeman Deaconess Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS ACADEMY: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN COVE HOSPITAL: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRQUE LODGE FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC dba BIG SKY DISCOVERY ACADEMY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPennys Flight Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGREEN VALE SCHOOL: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBozeman Field School Inc: $12,530 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTEACHING MATTERS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE 4 KIDS: $12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE AT THE MARIA FARERI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPIPING ROCK SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Women's Health Network: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW K DWYER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEAR JACK FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMELORHEOSTOSIS ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 38% of budgetBROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OYSTER BAY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Hugh and Patricia Oka…The Moore Charitable …Ainslie FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Bahnik Foundation…The Stebbins Fund IncRk Mellon Family Foun…Robertson FoundationNational Philanthropi…Greater Houston Commu…
Hugh and Patricia Okane Foundation Co Hugh OkaneFL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hugh and Patricia Okane Foundation Co Hugh Okane · The Moore Charitable Foundation Inc · Ainslie Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Bahnik Foundation Inc · The Stebbins Fund Inc · Rk Mellon Family Foundation · Robertson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Greater Houston Community Foundation

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 Norwood Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norwood Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Family Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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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How do I get to Norwood Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Norwood Foundation 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 63 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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