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The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$127k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$127k35%
FY202414$76k43%
FY202319$78k37%
FY202219$100k42%
FY202123$77k57%
FY202024$90k63%
FY201920$55k55%
FY201815$72k40%
81% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$225kEducation$196kInternational$65kHuman Services$48kArts & Culture$27kCommunity Improvement$21kPhilanthropy$18kRecreation & Sports$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
NY
OH
CA
UT
VA
AZ
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees
All grantees of The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Snow College Foundation$55,00052%
Southern Virginia University$30,00010%
Assistance League of Southern Utah$23,00084%
Humanitarian Experience Inc$18,28030%
Jordan Education Foundation$15,75080%
Type of Wood Charities$15,00037%
Book of Mormon Central$10,00010%
International Language Programs Inc$8,52030%
Davis Education Foundation$8,00020%
Educate Fairfax$5,00030%
Hale Center Foundation for the Arts and Education$5,00010%
Friends of Switchpoint Inc$5,00010%
Nebo Education Foundation$4,50011%
Utah Heritage Foundation$4,00012%
Chainbreaker Foundation$4,0002n/a
Lakeland Florida Stake Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints$3,0001n/a
Alpine School District Foundation$2,70020%
Little Beasties Art Studio Inc$2,5001n/a
Timpanogos Arts Foundation$2,50020%
Luv Michael Inc$2,40010%
Alpine Bible Church Inc$2,0001n/a
The Rachel Covey Foundation$2,00010%
Champion Forest Baptist Church$2,0001n/a
People's Health Clicnic$2,00010%
Families Mentoring Families$2,00011%
Moses Closet$1,2001n/a
Salt Lake Education Foundation$1,00010%
Mothers Without Borders$1,00010%
A New Beginning Animal Rescue Inc$75011%
Dixie Flyers Mtb Incorporated$7501n/a
Crossroads of the West Council Inc Boy Scouts of America 590$50010%
The Straighter Way Founation$50010%
Days For Girls International$50010%
Women of the World$50010%
Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers$30010%
The Cure Starts Now Inc$25010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc$5020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($578k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSnow College Foundation: $55,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSouthern Virginia University: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssistance League of Southern Utah: $23,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetHumanitarian Experience Inc: $18,280 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJordan Education Foundation: $15,750 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetType of Wood Charities: $15,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetBook of Mormon Central: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Language Programs Inc: $8,520 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDavis Education Foundation: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEducate Fairfax: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHale Center Foundation for the Arts and Education: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Switchpoint Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNebo Education Foundation: $4,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUtah Heritage Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAlpine School District Foundation: $2,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTimpanogos Arts Foundation: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLuv Michael Inc: $2,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Rachel Covey Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeople's Health Clicnic: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamilies Mentoring Families: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMothers Without Borders: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA New Beginning Animal Rescue Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCrossroads of the West Council Inc Boy Scouts of America 590: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Straighter Way Founation: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDays For Girls International: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen of the World: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Congress of Parents and Teachers: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cure Starts Now Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

The Community Foundation of UtahUT33.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Utah · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · University Impact · Beesley Family Foundation · The Miner Foundation · R & B Patterson Memorial Fdn Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Friend to Friend Inc · The Pi Foundation Inc · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles 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.

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About The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation

How much does The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation give?
The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $127,186 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Education (24%), International (8%).
Who are The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Snow College Foundation ($55k), Southern Virginia University ($30k), Assistance League of Southern Utah ($23k).
Does The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Utah, Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation.
Where is The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation based?
The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation is based in UT.

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 103 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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