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The Norton 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $278k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $642k
- $250k+2 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CREIGHTON UNIVERCITY | $300,000 |
| OUR COASTAL VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION | $242,000 |
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK | $75,000 |
| UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS | $75,000 |
| ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| ANDRE HOUSE OF ARIZONA | $70,000 |
| CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA | $55,000 |
| CIRCLE THE CITY | $50,000 |
| ARIZONA BURN FOUNDATION INC | $45,000 |
| BANNER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $40,500 |
| HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY | $25,000 |
| GOLDWATER INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDAT | $25,000 |
| ELAINE | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $601k 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
- SJST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +59%
- SMST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +31%
- CCCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- PCPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundationone grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue +19%
- TFTGEN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
- BABanner Alzheimer's Foundationone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -53%
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".
To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
Improving health, healing people.
To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley and the most unlike its peers is 10-90 Copperstate 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 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 43 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 ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds OUR COASTAL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE THE CITY ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA BURN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds 10-90 COPPERSTATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds MAGGIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Banner Alzheimer's Foundation ↗
- Who funds NOTMYKID ↗
- Who funds Elaine ↗
- Who funds VALLEYLIFE ↗
- Who funds Central Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds Arizonans for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds BELYDIA ↗
- Who funds THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Cancer Support Community Arizona ↗
- Who funds SALINAS CIRCLE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Garcia Family Foundation · Margaret T Morris Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Dignity Health · The Yelp Foundation · Union Pacific 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.
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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