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The Kent and Rita Norton Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Kent and Rita Norton 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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$167kEducation$19kPhilanthropy$6kAnimals$700Human Services$500Religion$360
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$339k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART$5,000
University of Colorado Foundation$2,000
Montalvo Foundation$1,000
For-Site Foundation$1,000
MACLA$500
NUMU$500
Works San Jose$500
02The need
03

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 (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YWCA of Silicon Valley: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$190k · 10 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$190k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+178%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SJ
    SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +20%
  • SJ
    SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
    9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +48%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • OS
    OPERA SAN JOSE INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +79%
  • CL
    CITY LIGHTS THEATER CO OF SAN JOSE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -4%
  • YG
    YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +251%
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.

1
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
4
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
5
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

The mission of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is to preserve, celebrate, and promote knowledge about quilts and textiles, their creation, their beauty, and their relationship to human culture and expression.

Arts & Culture
6
San Jose Chamber Music Society

To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…

—
7
San Jose Chamber Orchestra

The mission of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra (SJCO) is to share exciting, though-provoking, and vibrant Music by contemporary and time-honored composers reflecting the cultural diversity of our everchanging community, and to support and…

Unclassified
8
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
—
9
The Stanford Theatre Foundation
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10
San Francisco Camerawork Inc

SF Camerawork provokes discovery, experimentation, and exchange through exhibitions and experiences for all who value new ideas in photography.

Arts & Culture
11
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; the most unlike its peers is Potsdam College 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $133,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION+6 more: $10,350 · Arts & Culture+6 moreSAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $20,350 · OtherSAN JOSE INSTITUT…Montalvo Foundation: $6,000 · OtherMontalvo Foundati…NUMU: $2,750 · OtherNUMU+2 more: $860 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $14,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY …POTSDAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · EducationPOTSDAM COL…SANTA CLARA VALLEY BIRD ALLIANCE: $700 · EnvironmentYWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY: $500 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$143,350Other$29,960Education$19,000Environment$700Human Services$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $133,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $20,350 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED: $4,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPOTSDAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTALVO ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORKS SAN JOSE: $1,350 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOPERA SAN JOSE INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA CLARA VALLEY BIRD ALLIANCE: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY LIGHTS THEATER CO OF SAN JOSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The Applied Materials…The David and Lucile …Ibm International Fou…Silicon Valley CreatesLos Altos Mountain Vi…The William & Flora H…Jewish Community Fede…Joel Dean FoundationLeo M Shortino Family…John S and James L Kn…American Endowment Fo…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA23.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Silicon Valley Creates · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Joel Dean Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · American Endowment 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 Kent and Rita Norton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kent and Rita Norton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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