· Private foundation
The Edward R Norford Charitable Fdn
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENN STATE | $51,500 |
| New Cumberland Fire Department | $25,000 |
| NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| VICKIE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE FAIRNESS CENTER | $10,000 |
| MICHAEL ANN SAQUON BARKLEY HOPE FDN | $10,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHURCH OF NEW CUMBERLAND | $10,000 |
| MESSIAH UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL PENN COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| CREDC | $1,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% 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
Backed again, and grew
- FOFriends of the West Shore Theatre Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $207k · revenue +418%
- CJCLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +9%
- MUMESSIAH UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- HAHARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue -32%
- WSWEST SHORE CHAMBER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- HTHAMPDEN TWP VETERANS REGOCNITIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
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.
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
The mission of the harrisburg regional chamber is to be a catalyst for policy change, for job creation and for business growth in cumberland, dauphin, and perry counties that enhances the quality of life in our region.
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
The bucks county medical society strives to advance the professional and personal development of its physician members by providing educational and practice related resources as well as legislative advocacy. moreover, the bucks county…
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Our mission is to discover, collect, preserve, interpret, educate, advocate, present, and promote the county's history and culture.
The chester county community foundation connects people who care with the causes that matter, so their philanthropy makes a difference now and forever.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Friends of the West Shore Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW CUMBERLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds VICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CUMBERLAND RIVER RESCUE NO 1 ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL ANN & SAQUON BARKLEY HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds PEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY DAUPHIN COUNTY ↗
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 Crain Kunkel Foundation · United Way of the Capital Region · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · Hall Foundation · Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Upmc Group · George & Rita Patterson Foundation · The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Edward R Norford Charitable Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward R Norford Charitable Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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