· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS | $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 |
| GOLDWATER INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDAT | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY | $25,000 |
| 10-90 COPPERSTATE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +45% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- SBSCOTTSDALE BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TFTGEN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
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.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 43 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 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 NOTMYKID ↗
- Who funds Banner Alzheimer's Foundation ↗
- Who funds VALLEYLIFE ↗
- Who funds Elaine ↗
- Who funds Central Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds Arizonans for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds BELYDIA ↗
- Who funds Cancer Support Community Arizona ↗
- Who funds THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds SALINAS CIRCLE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE GIVING 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Norton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Norton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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