Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation

A Southern California family foundation established in 1963 to enhance quality of life through medicine, education and the arts, stewarded across three generations of the Norris family from a modest founding gift into a broad regional grantmaker.

Financial profile

Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation · EIN 95-6080374 · 501(c)(3)

Fiscal yearTotal revenueContributionsProgram servicesTotal expensesNet assetsYear end
FY2023$18,026,306$15,388,487$100,360,653Nov 2023
FY2022$18,433,080$15,282,554$97,208,770Nov 2022
FY2021$34,057,421$13,027,250$94,014,577Nov 2021
FY2020$10,254,832$11,892,358$75,270,240Nov 2020
FY2019$14,731,993$11,728,503$77,929,638Nov 2019
FY2015$5,799,222$9,795,117$79,457,449Nov 2015

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Peer societies

Five societies Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation is read alongside.

Who backs KTELN

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The outside view

A Southern California family foundation established in 1963 to enhance quality of life through medicine, education and the arts, stewarded across three generations of the Norris family from a modest founding gift into a broad regional grantmaker.

  • Authority
  • Preserve
  • Outward
  • Operational

Their shape

The Legacy

Faithful to what was handed down.

The Legacy is devoted to continuity, carrying a tradition and an identity across generations. Its gift is stability and deep institutional memory, its challenge is making room for change.

Also reads toward The Citadel and The Village.

Strengths

→Unmatched continuity and a trusted name.
→Decisions honor a long arc, not a news cycle.
→Members feel part of something lasting.

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