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The Norbell Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k46 grants · $198k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $18,000 |
| TELLURIDE HUMANE SOCIETY | $13,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $12,000 |
| HOLLOW OAK LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| ST ANNE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $8,000 |
| GREENDALE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $8,000 |
| MEADOWBROOK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH | $7,000 |
| CYPRESS-PARK HIGH SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| MT CARMEL ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
85 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- SASt Anne School8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +41%
- CACHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +119%
- CECreekside Educational Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · $62k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- ALALLEGHENY LAND TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +46%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY - WESTERN PENNSYLVANIAone grant, 2023 · $11k
- TMTHE MAXFUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +28%
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To advance, support, and promote the exempt purposes of the carnegie library of pittsburgh and the allegheny county library association.
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Franklin Library Association. 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 38 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.
66 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. 66 of the 126 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 CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds St Anne School ↗
- Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Creekside Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SEVEN TEPEES YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CORAOPOLIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds RACINE THEATRE GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds Moon Township Public Library ↗
- Who funds Telluride Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds RAISEUP FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds MEADOWBROOK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sweetwater Art Center ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST MONICA'S SENIOR LIVING 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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Eqt Foundation · United Way of Racine County Inc · Racine Community Foundation Inc · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Baird Foundation Inc · Lang Family Foundation Inc · The Grable Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Ec Styberg Foundation Inc
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 Norbell 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.
- Autism Society of America Inc — 8% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% 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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