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The Norcliffe Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$56M
Granted FY2025still arriving
454
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$7.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$42MArts & Culture$23MEducation$20MRecreation & Sports$19MHuman Services$15MEnvironment$13MHousing & Shelter$9.7MFood & Nutrition$5.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 454 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k53 grants · $275k
  • $10k–50k312 grants · $5.8M
  • $50k–250k49 grants · $3.7M
  • $250k+40 grants · $47M
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.0B
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in Paccar.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE ROOF STADIUM PARTNERSHIP FISCALLY SPONSORED BY SEATTLE CENTER FOUNDATIO$7,112,025
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$4,820,920
VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER$3,000,000
MARY'S PLACE$2,367,120
BISHOP BLANCHET HIGH SCHOOL$2,130,843
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION$2,000,000
5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION$1,944,220
SEATTLE SYMPHONY$1,901,130
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA KENTUCKY$1,650,000
YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES$1,500,000
ARTSFUND$1,446,276
EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION$1,200,000
OVERLAKE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$1,000,000
MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS$1,000,000
OVERLAKE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$1,000,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $13.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EDMONDS SENIOR CENTER: $45k → 9%SCARLET ROAD: $25k → 10%CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY: $50k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $25k → 9%SCARLET ROAD: $25k → 10%CRISIS CLINIC OF THURSTON AND MASON COUNTIES: $25k → 9%THE SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $80k → 11%HELPLINE HOUSE: $740k → 10%LIFEWIRE: $500k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $25k → 11%HELPLINE HOUSE: $60k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $25k → 11%LIFEWIRE: $25k → 9%OLYMPIA FAMILY THEATER: $25k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $25k → 9%SECOND CHANCE OUTREACH: $50k → 9%SECOND CHANCE OUTREACH: $25k → 9%WHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING: $25k → 12%BUSINESSES ENDING SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING (BEST): $40k → 9%BUSINESSES ENDING SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING (BEST): $40k → 9%HELPING HANDS PROJECT ORGANIZATION: $50k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $1.5M → 9%MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $400k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $50k → 9%MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $30k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $580k → 9%EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 9%EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $500k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $450k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $35k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $600k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 9%ERITREAN ASSOCIATION IN GREATER SEATTLE: $35k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $30k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $500k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $50k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $45k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $30k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $30k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE (REWA): $30k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $2.0M → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $50k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $30k → 9%KANDELIA: $30k → 9%AMARA: $30k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $800k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $50k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $50k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
TN
DC
HI
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of The Norcliffe Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 87%.

The Norcliffe Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.3% 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$120M · 484 repeat orgs$49M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

484 repeat relationships: 281 still active in FY2025, 203 since wound down; 158 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

484
463

Total granted

$120M
$32M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

86%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TS
    THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $11M · revenue +35%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT
    3× · 2021–2023 · $7.5M · revenue +14%
  • OH
    OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • UP
    UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue +5%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue -51%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871)graduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +58%
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
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
2
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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3
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
4
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
5
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
6
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
7
Economic Opportunity Institute

Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.

Community Improvement
8
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
9
Puget Sound Community School

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…

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10
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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11
Discover Your Northwest

Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.

Recreation & Sports
12
Washingtonians for Public Banking

Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transformations By Seattle Angels; the most unlike its peers is Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington. 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

875 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. 875 of the 1,110 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
158
Early backer (in before they grew)
863/875
Grantees still filing
479/875
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ONE ROOF STADIUM PARTNERSHIP FISCALLY SPONSORED BY SEATTLE CENTER FOUNDATIO: $8,500,000 · OtherONE ROOF STADIUM PARTNERSHIP FISCALLY SPONSORED BY SEATTLE CE…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7,136,970 · OtherSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATIONFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $5,000,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERFULCRUM FOUNDATION: $4,590,429 · OtherFULCRUM FOUNDATIONSeattle Children's Foundation: $3,863,030 · OtherVALLEY MEDICAL CENTER: $3,000,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3,000,000 · OtherSEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $2,762,462 · Other+102 more: $42,884,153 · Other+102 moreUNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $2,500,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $2,000,000 · EducationFOUNDATIO…SEATTLE GIRLS' SCHOOL: $1,950,000 · EducationSEATTLE G…HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL: $1,500,000 · EducationHAMLIN RO…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $1,250,000 · EducationSEATTLE C…THE BUSH SCHOOL: $1,000,000 · EducationTHE BUSH …Pacific Lutheran University: $1,000,000 · EducationPacific L…+15 more: $1,902,500 · Education+15 moreOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 · HealthOVERLAKE …PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $3,350,000 · HealthPLANNED P…MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $2,000,000 · HealthMULTICARE…Downtown Emergency Service Center: $808,800 · HealthDowntown …INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $500,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500,000 · Health+5 more: $615,000 · HealthTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $11,010,000 · AnimalsTHE SEATT…WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,000,000 · AnimalsWOODLAND …+2 more: $149,597 · AnimalsTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $2,000,000 · Human ServicesEVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,700,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $1,500,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARE: $835,000 · Human ServicesHELPLINE HOUSE: $810,000 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $600,000 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $580,000 · Human ServicesLifeWire: $550,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $500,000 · Human ServicesBYRD BARR PLACE: $475,000 · Human ServicesMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $430,000 · Human Services+14 more: $1,282,000 · Human Services5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $2,500,103 · Arts & CultureARTSFUND: $1,640,837 · Arts & CultureCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $1,175,000 · Arts & CultureIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $1,020,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA: $500,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $435,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND TACOMA CINE CLUB DBA THE GRAND CINEMA: $400,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $2,843,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $7,500,000 · Community ImprovementWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementFAMILYWORKS: $440,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $415,000 · Community Improvement
Other$80,737,044Education$13,102,500Health$12,773,800Animals$12,159,597Human Services$11,262,000Arts & Culture$10,514,440Community Improvement$9,355,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $11,010,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $7,500,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $3,863,030 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $3,350,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMaris Place: $2,550,000 over 3y, 11% of budget5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $2,500,103 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $2,500,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $2,500,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $2,000,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $2,000,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $2,000,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetSEATTLE GIRLS' SCHOOL: $1,950,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetEVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,700,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetARTSFUND: $1,640,837 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetHAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL: $1,500,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $1,500,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $1,250,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetHousing Lopez: $1,200,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $1,175,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK: $1,060,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $1,020,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT: $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCOMPASS HEALTH: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BUSH SCHOOL: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTHE ARC - KING COUNTY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetPacific Lutheran University: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $900,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER: $850,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $835,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHELPLINE HOUSE: $810,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDowntown Emergency Service Center: $808,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation: $750,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $600,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPATH: $600,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLifeWire: $550,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNTY: $550,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFARESTART: $550,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS: $540,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetVolunteers of America Western Washington: $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROVIDENCE GENERAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $500,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA: $500,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK: $500,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK: $500,000 over 1y, 5.4% 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.

Medina FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Lucky Seven FoundationGarneau Nicon Family …Credit Unions in the …Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiThe Bamford FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Dv & Ida McEachern Ch…Fales Foundation TrustKilworth Florence Cha…
Medina FoundationWA235.6× affinity180 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Medina Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Bamford Foundation · School's Out Washington · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Fales Foundation Trust · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn

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 Norcliffe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Norcliffe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
105report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Norcliffe Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Norcliffe Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 1110 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$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