Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund
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.
- $17M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 28
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $77M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $17M | 4% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $11M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $4.2M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $4.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $7,500,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Musical Arts Association | $6,220,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $3,500,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lorain County Community College | $2,100,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Cleveland Institute of Art | $2,050,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Pratt Institute | $2,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New York Botanical Garden | $1,390,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | $1,330,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Frick Collection | $1,015,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Treepeople Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation of Lorain County · The Nord Family Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund
- How much does The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund give?
- The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund reported 35 grants totaling $17,390,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 28 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (60%), Education (21%), Environment (5%).
- Who are The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Cleveland Museum of Art ($7.5M), The Musical Arts Association ($6.2M), Case Western Reserve University ($3.5M).
- Does The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Lorain County, The Nord Family Foundation, The Nordson Corporation Foundation.
- Where is The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund based?
- The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund is based in PA.
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