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Norwottock Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$237kEducation$103kInternational$78kEnvironment$48kHealth$30kScience & Tech$19kPhilanthropy$18kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$300
Median grant
9
States reached
$344k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGH CONCEPT LABORATORIES$10,000
PRESIDENT & FELLOWS HARVARD COLLEGE$5,000
MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI$5,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$1,000
HARVARD COLLEGE FUND$1,000
WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO$1,000
ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES$1,000
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS$750
CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN$680
WOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT$604
BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCN$600
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY$500
INSTITUTE FOR PALESTINE STUDIES$500
IL GREEN ALLIANCE$500
GRANT PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL$500
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 (FY20–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%TIDES CENTER: $6k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $2k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $2k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $500 → 10%TIDES CENTER: $500 → 10%TIDES CENTER: $150 → 10%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

MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$571k · 81 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

81 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
35

Total granted

$571k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+35%

Still filing today

73%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationInternationalHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • HC
    High Concept Laboratories
    6× · 2020–2025 · $112k · revenue +46%
  • University of Chicago
    4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +52%
  • FM
    FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $53k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -8%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -11%
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
Center for Strategic and International Studies

The center for strategic and international studies (csis) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world's greatest challenges.

International
2
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
6
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
7
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
8
Boston Architectural College

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

—
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
11
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shared Interest Inc; the most unlike its peers is Building Performance Institute Inc. 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

89 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. 89 of the 126 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/89
Grantees still filing
56/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

High Concept Laboratories: $112,000 · Arts & CultureHigh Concept LaboratoriesFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $53,250 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYTHE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN PROSPECT INCChicago Symphony Orchestra: $14,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony OrchestraMAD SHAK DANCE COMPANY: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $33,605 · Arts & Culture+14 moreIndividual grant recipient: $21,230 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEALTH & MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH: $13,900 · OtherHEALTH & MEDICINE POLICY R…PRESIDENT & FELLOWS HARVARD COLLEGE: $11,000 · OtherPRESIDENT & FELLOWS HARVAR…ARIZONA CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE MED: $10,500 · OtherARIZONA CENTER FOR INTEGRA…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHARVARD COLLEGE FUND: $8,400 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGE FUNDCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $7,180 · Other+64 more: $69,478 · Other+64 moreUniversity of Chicago: $60,000 · EducationUniversity of Chic…THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $19,325 · EducationTHE NEWBERRY LIBRA…MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationMADISON COMMUNITY …THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $5,100 · EducationWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT: $3,904 · Education+6 more: $4,250 · EducationTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $49,425 · InternationalTHE CHICAGO CO…THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $11,515 · InternationalTHE SYNERGOS I…THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $10,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF C…UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS…+5 more: $4,050 · InternationalBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS: $16,200 · EnvironmentCERES INC: $13,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $2,975 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $2,500 · EnvironmentFriends of Central Algoma Land Trust: $2,000 · Environment+8 more: $6,675 · EnvironmentTIDES CENTER: $9,650 · Human ServicesLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY: $7,750 · Recreation & SportsCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $700 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$243,855Other$151,688Education$102,579International$84,490Environment$43,350Human Services$9,650Recreation & Sports$8,450

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 budgetHigh Concept Laboratories: $112,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $53,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $49,425 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC: $21,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $19,325 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS: $16,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCERES INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $11,515 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAD SHAK DANCE COMPANY: $10,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $9,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY: $7,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $7,180 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $5,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $5,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREADER INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY JOURNALISM INC: $4,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBulletin of the Atomic Scientists: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT: $3,904 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $3,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $2,975 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MAYORS CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $2,850 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJANE'S ROOM: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $2,330 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Central Algoma Land Trust: $2,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $1,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $1,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DELTA INSTITUTE: $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE DUNES CONSERVATION FUND: $1,375 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC AND DANCE THEATER CHICAGO INC: $1,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $1,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHIRLEY HEINZE LAND TRUST INC: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPENLANDS: $1,075 over 2y, 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.

John D and Catherine …The Chicago Community…Gaylord and Dorothy D…The Joyce FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Arie and Ida Crown Me…Amalgamated Charitabl…Walder FoundationNew Venture FundThe Kresge FoundationThe Donnelley Foundat…Spectemur Agendo Inc
John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL35.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Norwottock Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norwottock Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
15report 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.
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How do I get to Norwottock Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Norwottock Charitable Trust 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 126 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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