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The Nordson Corporation 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k138 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $900k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TECH CORPS OHIO | $601,500 |
| NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC | $504,100 |
| FRIENDS OF BREAKTHOUGH SCHOOLS | $300,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE | $250,000 |
| COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND | $225,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTERAL OHIO | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $85,000 |
| EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $72,000 |
| THOMPSON R2-J EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| LORAIN CITY SCHOOLS | $70,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT THRU COMMUNITY EDUCATION & SUPPORT | $67,500 |
| THE WILLOW HILL HERITAGE AND RENAISSANCE CENTER | $60,000 |
| SUNSHINE HOUSE REGIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $50,000 |
| SAVE OUR CHILDREN OF ELYRIA INC | $45,000 |
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, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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 +35% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
536 repeat relationships — 134 still active in FY2025, 402 since wound down; 24 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $603k 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
- TCTECH CORPS OHIO6× · 2020–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +55% · 26% of their budget
NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +169%- CNCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +131%
Funded once
- C1COVID 19 RESPONSE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $500k
- TRTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +263%
- LFLCCC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $125k
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.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
Achieve now is a philadelphia-based social justice organization that sees literacy as a mechanism to effect social change. our mission is to provide k-2 school children in greater philadelphia with high-quality, culturally competent…
To cultivate an intimate, welcoming community where children develop respectful relationships and inquisitive minds, build confidence in their individual gifts, and are engaged, prepared and inspired to learn.
To provide educational and therapeutic services, at a professional level, for infants, toddlers and preschool children up to 12 years and their families through supporting the family unit and working with each child to develop his or her…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Natchaug Hospital Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
696 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. 696 of the 853 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.
- Who funds TECH CORPS OHIO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds MANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BLESSING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW HILL HERITAGE & RENAISSANCE ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR CHILDREN OF ELYRIA ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND THE CINDY NORD CENTER FOR RENEWAL ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DOWNCITY DESIGN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY SAFE HARBOR CORP ↗
- Who funds Next Generation Focus 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 Parker Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Community Foundation of Lorain County · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · The Champlin 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 Nordson Corporation 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.
- Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
- Steps Inc — 18% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Haverhill Inc — 1% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% 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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