· Private foundation
The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Kidney Fund | $15,000 |
| Greenpeace Fund | $12,000 |
| Wild Animal Sanctuary | $12,000 |
| The Danish America Museum | $10,000 |
| First Book | $6,000 |
| Rainforest Alliance | $6,000 |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $6,000 |
| Keepers of the Wild | $6,000 |
| Earth Island Institute | $5,000 |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $5,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders USA | $5,000 |
| Paws With A Cause | $5,000 |
| Canine Assistants | $5,000 |
| Sea Shepherd Conservation Society | $5,000 |
| Vesterheim Museum | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
GREENPEACE FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $52k · revenue +7%- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +56%
- RARAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +92%
Funded once
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +26%- SPSpecial Purebred Cat Rescueone grant, 2020 · $1k
- RIREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INCgraduated2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +181%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Protecting vital native predators & ending war on wildlife.
The Fossey Fund is dedicated to the conservation and study of gorillas in Africa through a successful, people-centered approach: 1) Providing daily protection to gorillas, 2) Scientific research providing critical data on gorillas and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reading Is Fundamental Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 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. 38 of the 42 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 AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Keepers of the Wild ↗
- Who funds CANINE ASSISTANTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Health Fund ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SPECIALITY PUREBRED CAT RESCUE OF SOUTHEASTERN WI INC ↗
- Who funds Classical Music Chicago ↗
- Who funds RAUE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust 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.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.