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The Norwood Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Religion$3.6MPhilanthropy$1.7MYouth Development$1.2MInternational$858kEducation$644kPublic Safety & Disaster$602kHuman Services$329kFood & Nutrition$320kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $238k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $693k
  • $250k+5 grants · $5.1M
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rapha Foundation Fund$2,800,000
Pikes Peak Community Foundations$1,566,337
Individual grant recipient$275,000
Advance Colorado$250,000
American Red Cross$250,000
QED Foundation$225,000
Care & Share$125,000
Baptists on Mission$100,000
Mt Carmel Veterans Center$100,000
Dream Centers of Colorado Springs$92,615
Penrose St Francis Health Foundation$50,000
First Presbyterian Church$35,000
St Helena Hospital Foundation$33,500
Empty Stocking Fund$30,000
Cheyenne Village$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $598k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%American Red Cross: $250k → 14%American Red Cross: $150k → 14%American Red Cross: $125k → 14%American Red Cross: $27k → 14%Springs Rescue Mission: $945 → 9%Cheyenne Village: $20k → 9%Cheyenne Village: $20k → 9%A Daughter's Journey: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
MN
IL
MI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.8M · 49 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

49 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
47

Total granted

$7.8M
$453k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+52%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +39%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    4× · 2018–2024 · $552k · revenue +9%
  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
    4× · 2018–2023 · $475k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • WR
    World Renew
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -15%
  • CC
    CS Community Cultural Collective
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • FF
    Founds for Hurricane Maria
    one grant, 2018 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
2
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
4
Set of Colorado Springs

S.e.t. of colorado springs is made up of a small multi-skilled staff and a large corps of volunteers, including many in the medical professions. s.e.t. of colorado springs collaborates with other care-givers in the pikes peak area to teach…

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5
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
6
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
7
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
8
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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9
Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado

We make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
10
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

To build a lasting connection to the pikes peak region by preserving and sharing our cultural history. this mission is accomplished through our support of the colorado springs pioneers museum, owned and operated by the city of colorado…

Arts & Culture
11
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
12
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Home Front Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Daughters Journey. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%13%5–10yr21%15%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr21%9%10–20yr17%43%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/79
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,338

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.

04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 124 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/73
Grantees still filing
46/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

First Presbyterian Church — $2,841,000 · OtherFirst Presbyterian ChurchRapha Foundation Fund — $2,800,000 · OtherRapha Foundation FundOUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC — $450,000 · OtherOUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INCIndividual grant recipient — $325,500 · Other+84 more — $1,918,582 · Other+84 morePIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,566,337 · PhilanthropyPIKES PEAK COM…+7 more — $146,000 · Philanthropy+7 moreYOUNG LIFE — $1,135,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIF…+1 more — $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — $475,000 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $200,000 · InternationalTOUCH OF LOVE INTERNATIONAL — $37,000 · International+1 more — $19,518 · InternationalSIGMA PHI EPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EducationQED FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $35,000 · EducationCOLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC — $25,000 · Education+6 more — $30,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $551,500 · Human ServicesCheyenne Village — $40,000 · Human Services+2 more — $6,945 · Human ServicesTHE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $102,500 · HealthDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS — $92,615 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $60,000 · HealthCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthSt Helena Hospital Foundation — $38,500 · Health+3 more — $12,600 · Health
Other$8,335,082Philanthropy$1,712,337Youth Development$1,146,000International$731,518Education$640,000Human Services$598,445Health$356,215

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,566,337 over 1y, 14% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $1,135,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $551,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — $475,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC — $450,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSIGMA PHI EPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetQED FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetADVANCE COLORADO — $250,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCare and Share Inc — $225,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Renew — $125,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetStableStrides — $113,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $102,500 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS — $92,615 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $51,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION — $51,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCheyenne Village — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPikes Peak Range Riders Foundation — $39,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetSt Helena Hospital Foundation — $38,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTOUCH OF LOVE INTERNATIONAL — $37,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPIKES PEAK OR BUST RODEO FOUNDATION — $33,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCrossfire Ministries Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILDREN'S CHORALE — $22,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPOLICE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO SPRINGS — $20,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetWe Fortify — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated — $19,518 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE CARES INC — $16,648 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL CYBERSECURITY CENTER — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Home Front Cares Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO — $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHey Neighbor — $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS OF COLORADO SPRINGS — $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNTAIN VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $7,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetRichards Rubbish Roundup — $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetNORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTORCH OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWBORN HOPE INCORPORATED — $4,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetColorado Springs Youth Symphony Association — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

El Pomar FoundationPikes Peak Community …The Joseph Henry Edmo…Colorado Gives Founda…The Myron Stratton Ho…Ent Credit UnionPikes Peak United WayChristian Community F…Daniels FundINDYGIVE DBA Give Pik…Colorado Springs Heal…The Anschutz Foundati…
El Pomar FoundationCO49.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Ent Credit Union · Pikes Peak United Way · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Daniels Fund · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Anschutz 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 Norwood 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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