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The Nordson Corporation Foundation at a glance

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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.

$5.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
159
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$602k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$11MHuman Services$5.3MYouth Development$4.9MArts & Culture$3.4MScience & Tech$2.2MFood & Nutrition$2.2MCommunity Improvement$1.2MEmployment$1.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 159 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k138 grants · $2.8M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $900k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$20,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON: $35k → 11%STEPS INC: $30k → 9%GEORGIA SHERIFFS' YOUTH HOMES: $30k → 11%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 13%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $30k → 7%CARING HEART THRIFT STORE INC: $25k → 17%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 13%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA: $25k → 14%LORAIN COUNTY SAFE HARBOR INC: $40k → 13%LORAIN COUNTY SAFE HARBOR INC: $30k → 13%MADONNA PLACE INC: $30k → 9%MADONNA PLACE INC: $30k → 9%LORAIN COUNTY SAFE HARBOR: $30k → 13%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $25k → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $25k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $25k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $25k → 10%BLESSING HOUSE: $170k → 13%LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $115k → 13%LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $50k → 13%LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $50k → 13%LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $50k → 13%LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $50k → 13%RESPITE CARE: $25k → 11%ELYRIA YWCA: $30k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $30k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $30k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $30k → 17%ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $25k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $25k → 17%PASSAGES CONNECTING FATHERS AND SONS INC: $25k → 17%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $105k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 11%OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL: $30k → 13%BLESSING HOUSE: $160k → 13%EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC: $60k → 13%EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC: $60k → 13%EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC: $50k → 13%EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC: $40k → 13%CASA DE AMPARO: $30k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $28k → 11%BLESSING HOUSE: $30k → 13%LORAIN COUNTY LUTHERANPRESBYTERIAN COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $25k → 13%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC: $100k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC: $30k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC: $30k → 11%OASIS INSTITUTE: $30k → 11%CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER: $24k → 13%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

NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
NM
TN
NC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38M · 536 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

536
279

Total granted

$38M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+27%

Still filing today

87%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $603k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TC
    TECH CORPS OHIO
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +55% · 26% of their budget
  • NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +169%
  • CN
    COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • C1
    COVID 19 RESPONSE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • TR
    THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +263%
  • LF
    LCCC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $125k
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
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
2
Springboard Collaborative

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…

Human Services
3
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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…

Philanthropy
4
Youthbuild Global Inc

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…

Employment
5
Abilitypath

Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.

Employment
6
Alternatives Inc

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…

Health
7
Kidworks Community Development Corp

Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.

Human Services
8
Marrakech Inc

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…

Employment
9
Achieve Now

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…

Education
10
Concord Children's Center Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Partners in Child Development Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center; 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.
04the grantee network

696 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. 696 of the 853 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
199
Early backer (in before they grew)
687/696
Grantees still filing
527/696
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TECH CORPS OHIO: $2,970,500 · EducationTECH CORPS OHIOCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $1,811,875 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND IN…FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $1,800,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLSLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $485,000 · EducationLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE …+25 more: $1,911,625 · Education+25 moreNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $2,554,100 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INVENTOR…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $384,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM …THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureWILLOW HILL HERITAGE & RENAISSANCE: $237,500 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $1,335,500 · Arts & Culture+18 moreCOVID 19 RESPONSE FUND: $500,000 · OtherCOVID 19 RESPONSE FUNDELYRIA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $335,119 · OtherTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $625,000 · OtherTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INCNEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE: $630,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCECALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $330,000 · OtherSAVE THE BAY INC: $320,000 · Other+75 more: $6,463,564 · Other+75 moreBLESSING HOUSE: $420,000 · Human ServicesBLESSING HOU…LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $314,858 · Human ServicesLORAIN COUNT…EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC: $210,000 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DE…NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $187,500 · Human ServicesNORTH COUNTY…SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $155,000 · Human ServicesLORAIN COUNTY SAFE HARBOR CORP: $130,000 · Human Services+28 more: $2,080,710 · Human Services+28 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $519,406 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $462,000 · Youth DevelopmentEFFECTIVE …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE: $368,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $340,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT…DOWNCITY DESIGN: $155,000 · Youth DevelopmentNext Generation Focus Inc: $125,000 · Youth Development+15 more: $993,050 · Youth Development+15 moreSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $635,000 · Food & NutritionMINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA: $185,382 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $115,000 · Food & NutritionRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $112,500 · Food & NutritionThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $104,000 · Food & NutritionJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $100,000 · Food & NutritionGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $80,500 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $62,375 · Food & NutritionMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC: $500,000 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $140,000 · Community ImprovementWOONASQUATUCKET VALLEY COMMUNITY BUILD INC: $90,000 · Community ImprovementSouthern Anoka Community Assistance: $64,000 · Community ImprovementTHAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $54,000 · Community Improvement
Education$8,979,000Arts & Culture$4,761,100Other$9,203,683Human Services$3,498,068Youth Development$2,962,456Food & Nutrition$1,394,757Community Improvement$848,000

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 budgetTECH CORPS OHIO: $2,970,500 over 6y, 26% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $2,554,100 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $1,811,875 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $1,800,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $635,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE: $630,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $625,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $519,406 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC: $500,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $485,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $462,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetBLESSING HOUSE: $420,000 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $384,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE: $368,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $340,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $330,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC: $320,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $314,858 over 5y, 19% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $269,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWILLOW HILL HERITAGE & RENAISSANCE: $237,500 over 5y, 35% of budgetJunior Achievement of Georgia: $230,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSAVE OUR CHILDREN OF ELYRIA: $220,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetEL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC: $210,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $187,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA: $185,382 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMON GROUND THE CINDY NORD CENTER FOR RENEWAL: $185,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $180,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLITTLE LIGHTHOUSE LEARNING CENTER: $165,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $155,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDOWNCITY DESIGN: $155,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $140,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY SAFE HARBOR CORP: $130,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetNext Generation Focus Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $115,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC: $114,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $113,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $112,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC: $110,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER: $110,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RI FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $108,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNew Urban Arts: $108,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES: $105,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $105,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $104,600 over 5y, 8.9% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Parker FoundationThe Conrad Prebys Fou…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Cushman FoundationWalter J & Betty C Za…David C Copley Founda…Pratt Memorial FundSamuel I & John Henry…Price Philanthropies …Community Foundation …June Rockwell Levy Fo…The Champlin Foundati…
The Parker FoundationCA122.5× affinity70 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
100report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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How do I get to The Nordson Corporation Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Nordson Corporation 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 853 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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