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Paul and Pamela Norman Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Paul and Pamela Norman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$52kFood & Nutrition$25kCivil Rights$16kRecreation & Sports$6kPhilanthropy$4kInternational$2kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$272k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$40,000
RODS HEROES$3,000
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 (FY19–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%RODS HEROES: $5k → 8%RODS HEROES: $5k → 8%RODS HEROES: $3k → 8%LITTLE LAMBS FOUNDATION: $7k → 12%CAPSA: $6k → 12%CAPSA: $6k → 12%CAPSA: $5k → 12%CAPSA: $4k → 12%LITTLE LAMBS FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%CAPSA: $2k → 12%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.
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$78k · 6 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +192% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$78k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+192%
+8%

Still filing today

83%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyMembership BenefitInternationalOther
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

  • CA
    CITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +192%
  • RH
    RODS HEROES INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +262%
  • LL
    Little Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc
    2× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • CG
    COMMON GROUND
    one grant, 2024 · $11k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • WD
    WYOMING DREAM HUNTS
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
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
Utah Kids Foundation

To support all special needs families in Utah by: 1. Sharing information about doctors and resources in the community, 2. Facilitating the legal exchange of spare supplies, 3. Providing comfort and support when our special needs children…

Education
2
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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3
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
4
Utah Abortion Fund

The Utah Abortion Fund provides financial and practical support for people traveling to, from, and within Utah seeking safe reproductive care. We believe that everyone deserves to have access to the reproductive health care they need, free…

Health
5
Child Liberation Foundation Inc

The Child Liberation Foundation (CLF), founded in February 2017, is dedicated to eradicating child trafficking worldwide. In 2023, CLF expanded its mission beyond rescue operations to emphasize rehabilitation and healing for survivors of…

Human Services
6
Utah Valley Family Support Center Inc

Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.

—
7
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
8
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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9
Phase Alliance

Prevention and Healing Against Sexual Exploitation (PHASE). PHASE Alliance represents three nationally recognized organizations, Fight the New Drug, the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, and the Malouf Foundation, working together to address the…

Crime & Legal
10
The Utah Autism Foundation
Philanthropy
11
GenerationAll

Our Mission is to drastically minimize the generational impact of sexual violence through advocacy and healing by breaking the cycle of generational trauma through advocacy, awareness, and change.

Human Services
12
Kids Who Count

We empower families to optimize the developmental potential of their young children.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens Against Physical and Sexual Abuse; the most unlike its peers is Malouf 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

8 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. 8 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCACHE FOOD PANTRY: $25,100 · OtherCACHE FOOD PANTRYCOMMON GROUND: $11,000 · OtherCOMMON GROUNDIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWYOMING DREAM HUNTS: $6,000 · OtherWYOMING DREAM HUNTSTHE FAMILY PLACE UTAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHILD & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF CACHE: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $10,150 · Other+5 moreCITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE: $22,000 · Human ServicesCITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND S…RODS HEROES INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesRODS HEROES INCLittle Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesLittle Lambs Foundation for Kid…Susan B Anthony List Education Fund: $5,100 · Civil RightsMalouf Foundation: $3,000 · PhilanthropyI Am Zambia Inc: $2,000 · InternationalUNITED WAY OF CACHE VALLEY: $1,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$107,250Human Services$45,000Civil Rights$5,100Philanthropy$3,000International$2,000Membership Benefit$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE: $22,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRODS HEROES INC: $13,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetLittle Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Education Fund: $5,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE UTAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHILD & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF CACHE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMalouf Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE ↗
  • Who funds RODS HEROES INC ↗
  • Who funds Little Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds Susan B Anthony List Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE UTAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHILD & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF CACHE ↗
  • Who funds Malouf Foundation ↗
  • Who funds I Am Zambia Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CACHE VALLEY ↗

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.

Ifit Health & Fitness…Sorenson Legacy Found…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ifit Health & Fitness FoundationUT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ifit Health & Fitness Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Paul and Pamela Norman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul and Pamela Norman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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.

    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 18 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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