How much does The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust give?

The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust reported 31 grants totaling $146,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (29%), Environment (27%), Health (14%).

Who are The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: American Kidney Fund Inc ($87k), Greenpeace Fund Inc ($52k), The Wild Animal Sanctuary ($50k).

Does The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust 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 and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust based?

The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust is based in IL.

The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust

The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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.

$147k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$216kEnvironment$198kHealth$106kArts & Culture$72kHuman Services$47kEducation$41kInternational$38kCivil Rights$15kOther$0

02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k27 grants · $98k
$10k–50k4 grants · $49k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
American Kidney Fund	$15,000
Greenpeace Fund	$12,000
Wild Animal Sanctuary	$12,000
The Danish America Museum	$10,000
Rainforest Alliance	$6,000
First Book	$6,000
Keepers of the Wild	$6,000
Sierra Club Foundation	$6,000
Vesterheim Museum	$5,000
Paws With A Cause	$5,000
Earth Island Institute	$5,000
Canine Assistants	$5,000
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society	$5,000
Best Friends Animal Society	$5,000
Doctors Without Borders USA	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 3.9% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$738k · 39 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$738k

$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+181%

Still filing today

92%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEnvironmentEducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

GREENPEACE FUND INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $52k · revenue +7%
TW
THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY
5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +56%
RA
RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +92%

Funded once

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated
2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +26%
RI
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INCgraduated
2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +181%
SP
Special Purebred Cat Rescue
one grant, 2020 · $1k

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.

04Its field

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.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals

Panthera Corporation

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.

Animals

American Humane Association

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…

Animals

Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals

The Nature Conservancy

The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.

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Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment

Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment

Predator Defense

Protecting vital native predators & ending war on wildlife.

Animals

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/38

Grantees still filing

32/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$220,500Other$230,500Environment$159,500Human Services$47,000International$38,000Education$31,000Civil Rights$15,000

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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home