The Norwood Foundation
At a glance
Overview
The Norwood Foundation is a US private foundation based in Colorado Springs, CO.
What they fund
Profile based on the foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (TY2024, TY2023, TY2022) only: no website or other web source for the foundation was found. Every statement is checked against the filings. Sources read on 7 October 2026.
Priority Areas
The foundation supports individuals pursuing college education and those seeking trade or vocational skills, as well as organisations and activities pursuing religious, charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes and the prevention of cruelty to children. College applicants must be high-school graduates; trade and vocational applicants need not be, but must meet the training institution’s admission requirements. Its organisational grants have gone to churches and ministries, educational and youth organisations, health and hospice providers, humanitarian and community-service organisations, and cultural and civic groups. The returns describe those organisational grants as general purpose, rather than specifying individual project aims.
Themes
- Religious purposes
- Scientific purposes
- Literary purposes
- Educational purposes
- Preventing cruelty to children
Geographic Focus
No geographic focus is stated; the filings show grants mainly in Colorado and District of Columbia.
How to apply
Scholarship applicants must use the attached application form.
Application success factors
- Repeat giving: In its TY2024 filing, 15% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in its TY2022 or TY2023 filing.
- Grant size: Across its TY2022, TY2023 and TY2024 filings, half of its 126 grants to organisations were $10,000 or less.
Where grants go
From grants to organisations in the foundation’s filings for tax years 2022–2024.
Grant dollars by state
6 other states: 2%
- The largest single recipient received 25% of grant dollars to organisations.
- In tax year 2024, 15% of grant dollars went to organisations The Norwood Foundation had funded in earlier filings.
- No grants were paid directly to organisations outside the US.
- 39% of grant dollars went to intermediaries that regrant to other organisations.
Grants
How much do they typically give?
Share of 39 grants in tax year 2024 by size
Median $10,000 (tax year 2024)
The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:
- Rapha Foundation Fund · General Purpose$2,800,0002024 tax year
- Pikes Peak Community Foundations · General Purpose$1,566,3372024 tax year
- Pikes Peak Hospice · General Purpose$275,0002024 tax year
- Advance Colorado · General Purpose$250,0002024 tax year
- American Red Cross · General Purpose$250,0002024 tax year
- QED Foundation · General Purpose$225,0002024 tax year
- Care & Share · General Purpose$125,0002024 tax year
- Baptists on Mission · General Purpose$100,0002024 tax year
Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.
Officers and directors
- Christopher S Jenkins — Secretary / Treasurer
- Carolyn S Jenkins — Vice President
- David D Jenkins — President
From the latest Form 990-PF filing
3 years of tax filings
| Year | Total expenses | Grants paid | Assets | Filing document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 tax year | $2,586,702 | $2,539,627 | $62,543,597 | Filing for 2022 tax year |
| 2023 tax year | $2,866,689 | $2,491,879 | $71,249,711 | Filing for 2023 tax year |
| 2024 tax year | $7,080,743 | $6,112,922 | $115,932,831 | Filing for 2024 tax year |
Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
Sources
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Hinchilla drafts your answers around this funder's priorities, using your organisation's own documents.
No credit card required
Contact
- (719) 593-2600
- Colorado Springs, CO