· Private foundation
The Norma 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 $10k29 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| ASSOCIATED CHARITIES | $45,000 |
| CITY OF ASHLAND | $35,000 |
| ASHLAND BIKE PROJECT | $31,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ASHLAND FAMILY YMCA | $20,000 |
| APPLESEED | $11,266 |
| OPERATION GRATITUDE INC | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $10,000 |
| LIVING WATERS OUTREACH MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| ASHLAND CO JR FAIR SALE & MARKET COMMITTEE | $9,940 |
| NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| ASHLAND SPECIAL NEEDS MINISTRY | $6,000 |
| FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
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, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 20 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k 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
- FFFOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC6× · 2018–2024 · $24k · revenue +257%
- MCMINNESOTA COLORECTAL CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $19k · revenue +31%
- NCNORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- HBHOMEWARD BOUNDone grant, 2022 · $150k
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $75k
- STSCHINE'S THEATERone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
To make contributions which are used to support the social and economic impact in the local community.
The ashland county fair promotes area tourism and provides recreation for the area residents. the fair also promotes 4-h programs and allows local farmers, 4-h members, and the general public to complete projects crafting to raising…
To improve the quality of life in the ashland area, through, but not limited to the promotion, encouragement and support of education, health and well-being of families & individuals, preservation of nature, history, and the promotion of…
To work closely with faith-based charities in our communities and distribute grants to them from donations received. to provide spiritual and business counsel to approved inter-church christian ministries.
Striving to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty by stabilizing families of ashland county (ohio) in a safe and spiritual environment.
To offer meals on a daily basis to those in need of food
To enforce laws preventing cruelty to animals and to provide affective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
To operate an animal shelter, educate the public, and prevent cruelty to animals.
Local faith groups, in alliance with the community at large, will provide emergency food supplies, without charge, t0 individuals and families in the ashland/talent area who would otherwise go hungry and will also endeavor to increase…
To support, promote and further the mission and goals of the ashland county park district. to provide social, educational, and recreational activities; to further scientific pursuits; encourage volunteerism, provide financial support by…
Assisting ashland county residents in need of secure, safe, affordable housing through rentals, renovations, and/or new homes.
Reduction of euthanized companion pets in the local pounds by networking them to no kill, 501(c)(3) animal rescues providing medical care for animals in need that would suffer without medical attention and spay/neuter all companion animals…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ashland County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Miracle-Ear Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 118 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 ASHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND BIKE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF ASHLAND OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Kitten Krazy Inc ↗
- Who funds 4 LEAF ROVER ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SCHINES THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds Camp Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA COLORECTAL CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COUNTY CANCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SPECIAL NEEDS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATERS OUTREACH MINISTRY ↗
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: Ashland County Community Foundation · Samaritan Hospital Foundation · United Way of Ashland County · Richland County Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Fraternal Order of Eagles 2178 · Barbasol Foundation · The Hire Family Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Norma 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.
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% 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.