Illinois · Private foundation
Norwottock Charitable Trust
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.
- $38k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 68
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $344k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Norwottock Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 48 | $37k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $66k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $90k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $123k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $111k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 68 | $197k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Concept Laboratories | $112,000 | 6 | 17% |
| University of Chicago | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $53,250 | 4 | 0% |
| The Chicago Council on Global Affairs | $49,425 | 4 | 0% |
| The American Prospect Inc | $21,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Newberry Library | $19,325 | 4 | 0% |
| Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods | $16,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ceres Inc | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Synergos Institute Inc | $11,515 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Norwottock Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Walder Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Kresge Foundation · The Donnelley Foundation · Spectemur Agendo Inc
How this is measured
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About Norwottock Charitable Trust
- How much does Norwottock Charitable Trust give?
- Norwottock Charitable Trust reported 50 grants totaling $38,319 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 68 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Norwottock Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Education (17%), International (13%).
- Who are Norwottock Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: High Concept Laboratories ($112k), University of Chicago ($60k), Field Museum of Natural History ($53k).
- Does Norwottock Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Norwottock Charitable Trust 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 Norwottock Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.
- Where is Norwottock Charitable Trust based?
- Norwottock Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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