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The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust: 31 grants to organizations, $146,500 (tax year ended December 2024)
The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable Trust, a private foundation in Crystal Lake, IL, paid 31 grants to organizations totaling $146,500 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 14, 2025. The largest was $15,000 to American Kidney Fund in Rockville, MD for provide funds for financial assistance to dialysis and kidney transplant patients and living kidney donors..
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- EIN
- 367386936
- Based in
- Crystal Lake, IL
- Assets
- $2,573,543
- Grants paid
- $146,500
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 14, 2025, IRS object ID 202513189349103181. It reported $146,500 in grants paid; 31 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Kidney Fund | Rockville, MD | Provide funds for financial assistance to dialysis and kidney transplant patients and living kidney donors. | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Greenpeace Fund | Washington, DC | Provide funds to help halt environmental destruction and to promote solutions for future generations. | Environment | $12,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Wild Animal Sanctuary | Keenesburg, CO | Provide funds to help support and maintain more than 450 lions tigers bears leopards mountain lions wolves & other large carnivores; it is the largest carnivore sanctuary in the world and the only san | $12,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Danish America Museum | Elk Horn, IA | Help fund staff development tolerance programs various exhibits and other activities | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| First Book | Washington, DC | Provide funds to help give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. | Education | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Keepers of the Wild | Valentine, AZ | Provide funds to protect abused neglected abandoned and retired captive wildlife. | Animal-related | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Rainforest Alliance | New York, NY | Provide funds to help protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend on them. | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Sierra Club Foundation | Oakland, CA | Provide funds to advance the preservation and protection of the natural environment. | Environment | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Best Friends Animal Society | Kanab, UT | Provide funds to help care for homeless and abandoned pets. | Animal-related | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Canine Assistants | Milton, GA | Provide funds to help train and provide service dogs for children and adults with physical disabilities or other special needs. | Human services | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Doctors Without Borders USA | New York, NY | Provide funds to create awareness recruit field staff and advocate with the United Nations and US government on humanitarian concerns. | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Earth Island Institute | Berkeley, CA | Provide funds for environmental and conservation issues | Environment | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Paws With A Cause | Wayland, MI | Provide funds to help train assistance dogs nationally for people with disabilities and provides lifetime team support which encourages independence and to promote awareness through education. | Human services | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sea Shepherd Conservation Society | Alexandria, VA | Provide funds to help end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the worlds oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Vesterheim Museum | Decorah, IA | Help fund numerous museum activities | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| African Wildlife Foundation | Washington, DC | Provide funds to help ensure the continued existence of some of Africas most rare and treasured species. | Animal-related | $4,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Childrens Health Fund | New York, NY | Provide funds to help champion policies and programs that lift children out of poverty; protect them from abuse and neglect; and ensure their access to health care quality education and a moral and sp | $4,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Parks Conservation Association | Washington, DC | Provide funds to help protect and enhance Americas National Parks for present and future generations. | Environment | $4,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Animal Legal Defense Fund | Cotati, CA | Provide funds to help protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system. | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Childrens Defense Fund | Washington, DC | Provide funds to help meet the physical emotional educational and spiritual needs of abused and neglected children | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Wildlife Conservation Network | San Francisco, CA | Provide funds to help protect endangered species and preserve their natural habitats. | Animal-related | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| American Bird Conservancy | The Plains, VA | Provide funds to help conserve wild birds and their habitats throughout the Americas. | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Clean Water Fund | Washington, DC | Provide funds to help develop strong grassroots environmental leadership and to bring together diverse constituencies to work cooperatively for changes that improve their lives focused on health consu | Environment | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Defenders of Wildlife | Washington, DC | Provide funds for environmental and conservation issues | Animal-related | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Friends of the Earth | Washington, DC | Provide funds to support programs intended to create a more healthy just world including campaigns that focus on clean energy and global warming protecting people from toxic and potentially harmful te | Environment | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| National Wildlife Federation | Reston, VA | Provide funds to help inspire Americans to protect wildlife for our childrens future. NWFs work helps to find solutions to the climate crisis keep our nation connected to nature and safeguard Americas | Animal-related | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Oxfam America | Boston, MA | Provide funds to help create lasting solutions to poverty hunger and injustice. | International, foreign affairs and national security | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Grand Teton Natl Park Foundation | Moose, WY | Provide funds to help support programs and projects which enhance preserve and protect Grand Teton National Park. | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $1,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Lincoln Park Zoo | Chicago, IL | Provide funds to support its conservation and education efforts and to provide excellent care for the animals | $1,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Yellowstone Forever | Bozeman, MT | Provide funds to support educational projects and programs for park visitors. 080 Environment Conservation | Environment | $1,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Specialty Purebred Cat Rescue | Somers, WI | Provide funds to help abused and abandoned cats. | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Environment | $32,500 |
| Animal-related | $22,000 |
| Human services | $10,000 |
| Education | $6,000 |
| Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $3,000 |
| International, foreign affairs and national security | $2,000 |
| Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $1,500 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| District of Columbia | $35,000 |
| California | $17,000 |
| Maryland | $15,000 |
| Iowa | $15,000 |
| New York | $15,000 |
| Colorado | $12,000 |
| Virginia | $9,000 |
| Arizona | $6,000 |
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Updated November 14, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.