· 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 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 $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 |
| LIVING WATERS OUTREACH MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| OPERATION GRATITUDE INC | $10,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ASHLAND CO JR FAIR SALE & MARKET COMMITTEE | $9,940 |
| NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| ASHLAND SPECIAL NEEDS MINISTRY | $6,000 |
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, $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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
55 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. 55 of the 118 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 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 OPERATION GRATITUDE INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATERS OUTREACH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Norma Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Norma Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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