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The Norton 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $544k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $513k
- $250k+1 grant · $389k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH FOR TOMORROW | $388,500 |
| Naples Children Education Fund | $200,000 |
| Holistic Haitian Alliance | $113,456 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $50,000 |
| LET'S GO BOYS AND GIRLS | $50,000 |
| CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $50,000 |
| Great American Community Kitchen | $35,000 |
| The ALS Association DCMDVA Chapter | $25,000 |
| Women Giving Back Inc | $25,000 |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank of SW Corridor | $25,000 |
| V Foundation for Cancer Research | $25,000 |
| FOOD N' FRIENDS | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| Washington Episcopal School | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 70% 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.
53 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
- YFYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +90%
- HHHolistic Haitian Alliance7× · 2019–2025 · $794k · revenue +88%
- LGLET'S GO BOYS AND GIRLS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $375k · revenue +213%
Funded once
- HCHarry Chapin Food Bankone grant, 2022 · $50k
- TCTRANSYLVANIA COUNTY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -46%
- HEHispanic Education Coalitionone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
Global citizens school's mission is to inspire and prepare the next generation or global citizens. we will do this by supporting students, ages 3-11, to reach their full academic and leadership potential in a nurturing learning…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The district of columbia college access program's (dc cap's) primary purpose is to encourage and enable district of columbia students to attend and graduate college.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Adaptive Fitness Legion. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 87 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 YOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Holistic Haitian Alliance ↗
- Who funds LET'S GO BOYS AND GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALS ASSOCIATION DCMDVA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST COLETTA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds LATINO STUDENT FUND ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT AMERICAN COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Arlington Food Assistance Center ↗
- Who funds THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFAX COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds New Roots Haiti ↗
- Who funds Prince William Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL IMPACT PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds 360 VETERANS ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Crimsonbridge Foundation Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Alloy Family Foundation Inc · The Henry Foundation Inc · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Kimsey Foundation · The Peterson Family Foundation Inc · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer 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 Norton 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% 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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