About Norton Simon Foundation
The Norton Simon Foundation concentrates its philanthropy almost exclusively on sustaining the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, providing large, unrestricted gifts to support the museum's ongoing operations. Its giving is locally focused and mission-driven toward maintaining the museum's exhibitions, collections and institutional capacity rather than a broad mix of external beneficiaries.
Focus Areas
Unrestricted operational support for the Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena)Sustaining and presenting fine art collections (European and Asian art focus implicit)Strengthening a local cultural institution and public access to museum programming
Who They Fund
museum (cultural institution)museum visitors / general public
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated giving: few, large grants repeatedly directed to a single core grantee (the Norton Simon Museum), primarily unrestricted support for operations.
Funding Style
unrestricted support
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$6M
Total Assets
$195.2M
Total Revenue
$6.4M
Total Expenses
$7.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $4.9M and $5M, with a median of $4.9M.
25th Percentile
$4.9M
Median
$4.9M
75th Percentile
$5M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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