Funding search · EIN 341874344 · Lorain, OH

Norton Family Foundation

Name: Norton Family Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

79
grants reported: $519,203
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

scholarship summer camp renovations camps emergency greatest medical

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

26 grants matching “lorain” · $171,655

$12,000
Lorain Historical Society · Lorain, OH · 2025
Operating Support
$11,000
Lorain County Community College Foundation · North Ridgeville, OH · 2025
Support Services & Scholarship Fund
$10,000
Lorain Port Authority · Lorain, OH · 2025
Operating Support
$5,000
Lorain County Free Clinic · Lorain, OH · 2025
Medical Supplies
$5,000
Family Planning Services of Lorain County · Elyria, OH · 2025
Operating Support
$5,000
Good Knights of Lorain County · Amherst, OH · 2025
Operating Support
$12,000
Lorain Historical Society · Lorain, OH · 2024
Operating support
$6,000
Lorain County Community College Foundation · Elyria, OH · 2024
Support services & Scholarship Funds
$5,000
Lorain Port Authority · Lorain, OH · 2024
Operating support
$5,000
Community Foundation of Lorain County · Elyria, OH · 2024
Womens Fund
$5,000
Family Planning Services of Lorain County · Elyria, OH · 2024
Operating Support
$5,000
Good Knights of Lorain County · Amherst, OH · 2024
Operating support
$5,000
Lorain County Safe Harbor · Elyria, OH · 2024
Child care center
$2,000
Lorain County Free Clinic · Lorain, OH · 2024
Medical Supplies
$17,000
Lorain Historical Society · Lorain, OH · 2023
Operating and Building support
$6,000
Good Knights of Lorain County · Amherst, OH · 2023
Operating support
$6,000
Lorain County Community College Foundation · Elyria, OH · 2023
Emergency Scholarship Funds
$3,000
Family Planning Services of Lorain County · Elyria, OH · 2023
Operating Support
$2,000
Lorain County Free Clinic · Lorain, OH · 2023
Medical Supplies
$1,050
Community Foundation of Lorain County · Elyria, OH · 2023
Womens Fund
$14,500
Lorain Historical Society · Lorain, OH · 2022
Annual Fund
$11,000
Lorain County Community College Foundation · Elyria, OH · 2022
Scholarship fund
$10,000
United Way of Greater Lorain County · Lorain, OH · 2022
Community Assistance Network
$5,105
Community Foundation of Lorain County · Elyria, OH · 2022
Womens Fund
$2,000
Lorain County Free Clinic · Lorain, OH · 2022
Medical Supplies
$1,000
Lorain County Metroparks · Lagrange, OH · 2022
Children programming

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Lorain Historical Society4 grants · $55,500
Neighborhood Alliance4 grants · $45,500
St Bernadette School4 grants · $44,000
Footpath Foundation4 grants · $40,500
Lake Ridge Academy4 grants · $34,220
Lorain County Community College Foundation4 grants · $34,000
Magnificat High School3 grants · $30,000
Second Harvest Food Bank2 grants · $30,000
Blessing House4 grants · $20,260
American Red Cross1 grant · $20,000

Giving over time

$119,000

2022

$122,703

2023

$132,500

2024

$145,000

2025

Grant history

All 79 reported grants, largest first.

$20,500
Neighborhood Alliance · Elyria, OH · 2023
Capital campaign
$20,000
Second Harvest Food Bank · Lorain, OH · 2025
Operating support
$20,000
American Red Cross · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Emergency Relief
$17,000
Lorain Historical Society · Lorain, OH · 2023
Operating and Building support
$15,000
Neighborhood Alliance · Elyria, OH · 2022
Haven Center renovations
$14,500
Lorain Historical Society · Lorain, OH · 2022
Annual Fund
$13,000
Lake Ridge Academy · North Ridgeville, OH · 2024
Scholarship support
$12,000
Lorain Historical Society · Lorain, OH · 2025
Operating Support
$12,000
Lorain Historical Society · Lorain, OH · 2024
Operating support
$11,000
Lorain County Community College Foundation · North Ridgeville, OH · 2025
Support Services & Scholarship Fund
$11,000
St Bernadette School · Westlake, OH · 2025
School renovations
$11,000
St Bernadette School · Westlake, OH · 2024
School renovations
$11,000
Blessing House · Elyria, OH · 2023
Support Operations
$11,000
St Bernadette School · Westlake, OH · 2023
Computer lab update
$11,000
Lorain County Community College Foundation · Elyria, OH · 2022
Scholarship fund
$11,000
St Bernadette School · Westlake, OH · 2022
Library renovations
$10,500
Footpath Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Support summer camp
$10,000
American Red Cross - Northern Ohio Region · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Emergency Relief
$10,000
Footpath Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Support Summer Camp
$10,000
Lorain Port Authority · Lorain, OH · 2025
Operating Support
$10,000
Magnificat High School · Rocky River, OH · 2025
Scholarship support
$10,000
North Helpline · Lynnwood, WA · 2025
Greatest Need
$10,000
American Red Cross - Northern Ohio Region · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Emergency Relief
$10,000
Footpath Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Support summer camp
$10,000
Magnificat High School · Rocky River, OH · 2024
Scholarships
$10,000
Second Harvest Food Bank · Lorain, OH · 2024
School programs
$10,000
Lake Ridge Academy · North Ridgeville, OH · 2023
Scholarship support
$10,000
Magnificat High School · Rocky River, OH · 2023
Scholarhsips
$10,000
Footpath Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Support summer camp
$10,000
United Way of Greater Lorain County · Lorain, OH · 2022
Community Assistance Network
$6,220
Lake Ridge Academy · North Ridgeville, OH · 2022
Scholarship support
$6,000
Lorain County Community College Foundation · Elyria, OH · 2024
Support services & Scholarship Funds
$6,000
Good Knights of Lorain County · Amherst, OH · 2023
Operating support
$6,000
Lorain County Community College Foundation · Elyria, OH · 2023
Emergency Scholarship Funds
$5,105
Community Foundation of Lorain County · Elyria, OH · 2022
Womens Fund
$5,000
Cleveland Clinic · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Avon Ohio Food Pantry
$5,000
Family Planning Services of Lorain County · Elyria, OH · 2025
Operating Support
$5,000
Good Knights of Lorain County · Amherst, OH · 2025
Operating Support
$5,000
Lake Ridge Academy · North Ridgeville, OH · 2025
Scholarship support
$5,000
Lorain County Free Clinic · Lorain, OH · 2025
Medical Supplies
$5,000
Neighborhood Alliance · Elyria, OH · 2025
Operating Support
$5,000
Blessing House · Elyria, OH · 2024
Support Operations
$5,000
Cleveland Clinic · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Avon Oho Food Pantry
$5,000
Community Foundation of Lorain County · Elyria, OH · 2024
Womens Fund
$5,000
Family Planning Services of Lorain County · Elyria, OH · 2024
Operating Support
$5,000
Good Knights of Lorain County · Amherst, OH · 2024
Operating support
$5,000
Lorain County Safe Harbor · Elyria, OH · 2024
Child care center
$5,000
Lorain Port Authority · Lorain, OH · 2024
Operating support
$5,000
Neighborhood Alliance · Elyria, OH · 2024
operating support
$5,000
El Centro De Servicios Sociales · Lorain, OH · 2023
Building renovation
$5,000
Girls Scouts of North East Ohio · Macedonia, OH · 2023
Support STEM program
$5,000
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio · Macedonia, OH · 2022
Support STEM program
$4,000
Firefish Arts · Lorain, OH · 2025
Festival Support
$3,600
Blessing House · Elyria, OH · 2022
Support Operations
$3,500
Scouting America Lake Erie Council · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Camp renovations
$3,000
Camp Ideas · Lorain, OH · 2025
Support Summer Camps
$3,000
Camp Ideas · Lorain, OH · 2024
Support Summer Camps
$3,000
Family Planning Services of Lorain County · Elyria, OH · 2023
Operating Support
$2,500
Camp Ideas · Lorain, OH · 2023
Support Summer Camps
$2,500
Camp Ideas · Lorain, OH · 2022
Support Summer Camps
$2,000
Lorain County Free Clinic · Lorain, OH · 2024
Medical Supplies
$2,000
Lorain County Free Clinic · Lorain, OH · 2023
Medical Supplies
$2,000
Lorain County Free Clinic · Lorain, OH · 2022
Medical Supplies
$1,500
Firefish Arts · Lorain, OH · 2022
Support programming
$1,050
Community Foundation of Lorain County · Elyria, OH · 2023
Womens Fund
$1,000
Cold Creek Foundation · Castalia, OH · 2025
Operations Support
$1,000
Gardiner Food Pantry · Gardiner, MT · 2025
Greatest need
$1,000
Sweetgrass Advocacy · Colorado Spring, CO · 2025
Greatest Need
$1,000
Firefish Arts · Lorain, OH · 2024
Festival Support
$1,000
Gardiner Food Pantry · Gardiner, MT · 2024
greatest need
$1,000
Common Roots · Meadville, PA · 2023
Operating Support
$1,000
Firefish Arts · Lorain, OH · 2023
Festival Support
$1,000
Lorain County Metroparks · Lagrange, OH · 2022
Children programming
$660
Blessing House · Elyria, OH · 2025
Support Operations
$500
Ohio Wesleyan University · Delaware, OH · 2022
Annual Fund
$340
Common Roots · Meadville, PA · 2025
Operating Support
$78
Crawford Heritage Community Foundation · Meadville, PA · 2023
Operating support
$75
Allegheny College · Meadville, PA · 2023
Athletics program
$75
Second Harvest Food Bank of Ne Ohio · Lorain, OH · 2022
Operating support

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