· Private foundation
The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris Foundation
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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k94 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k42 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+16 grants · $8.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $1,100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS LOS ANGELES REGION | $1,000,000 |
| TORRANCE MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $800,000 |
| USCNORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER - NORRIS HEALTHCARE CONSULTATION CENT | $750,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $700,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $600,000 |
| NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY | $575,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION | $350,000 |
| PALOS VERDES PERFORMING ARTS | $300,000 |
| COASTAL SAGE MONTESSORI | $300,000 |
| THE LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE | $300,000 |
| HUNTINGTON LIBRARY ART COLLECTIONS AND BOTANICAL GARDENS | $250,000 |
| PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THE BOARD FUND | $250,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
194 repeat relationships — 145 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles6× · 2020–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +27%
- TMTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +193%
- CSCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +62%
Funded once
- HEHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $315k · revenue +48%
- USUSO SAN DIEGOone grant, 2020 · $200k
- WMWe Must Protect Incone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orthopaedic Institute for Children Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kassan Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
188 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. 188 of the 241 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Green Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · Orange County Community 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 Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris Foundation 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.
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