· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| HOLLOW OAK LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| ST ANNE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| GREENDALE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $8,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $8,000 |
| CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH | $7,000 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH | $7,000 |
| CYPRESS-PARK HIGH SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| MEADOWBROOK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| MT CARMEL ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
66 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. 66 of the 126 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- 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 Telluride Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Moon Township Public Library ↗
- Who funds RAISEUP FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEADOWBROOK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Sweetwater Art Center ↗
- Who funds ST MONICA'S SENIOR LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Norbell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Norbell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Autism Society of America Inc: 8% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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