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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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of THE EDWARD R NORFORD CHARITABLE FDN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| UNITED METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MESSIAH UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHURCH OF NEW CUMBERLAND | $10,000 |
| THE FAIRNESS CENTER | $10,000 |
| MICHAEL ANN SAQUON BARKLEY HOPE FDN | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL PENN COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| CREDC | $1,250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FOFriends of the West Shore Theatre Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $207k · revenue +350%
- 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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Methodist Home for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Michael Ann & Saquon Barkley Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Edward R Norford Charitable Fdn funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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