How much did DEBORAH M NOONAN MEMORIAL FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of DEBORAH M NOONAN MEMORIAL FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

bostonchildren'sartscontemporary artmusicsouth shorehealth

2025

bostonpaigeartssouthendsciencehealth

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k44 grants · $770k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$22M

Total assets

Largest grants

DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE MASSACHUSETTS$35,000
HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC$30,000
BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS (BCA)$25,000
BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC$25,000
ELIOT SCHOOL TRUSTEES$20,000
RESIST INC$20,000
ZUMIX INC$20,000
BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON$20,000
THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC$20,000
SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC$20,000
ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY$20,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$20,000
DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING$20,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON$20,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to community.

Arts & Culture

Brookline Arts Center

The Brookline Arts Center is a visual arts center committed to bringing the community meaningful experience in the arts through classes, exhibitions and outreach.

Arts & Culture

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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Boston Ballet Inc

The heart of Boston Ballet is the human experience. Through our living and breathing art, we forge human connections-between artist and attendee, teacher and trainee, friend and newcomer, one's outer and inner self. Dance history is human…

Arts & Culture

Boston Dance Alliance Inc

Boston dance alliance ("bda") supports the dance community that invigorates boston through this living and dynamic art form. toward that end, the organization provides services that raise the profile of dance, nurture artistic excellence,…

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Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc

Recreation & Sports

Boston Bar Association

To advance the highest standards of excellence for the legal profession, to facilitate access to justice, and to serve the community at large.

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Hubweek Inc

Hubweek, inc. is an organization dedicated to igniting and unleashing the potential of boston. we guide the doers, dreamers, and makers that define who we are as a city and what our future will be. our purpose is to help build a better…

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Boston Society of Architects

The boston society of architects (bsa/aia) exists to improve the quality of life for boston area residents by championing innovation in the built environment.

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New England Lawboston

Education of students

Education

Boston Preservation Alliance Inc

Advocacy for the preservation of the uniquely built environment of boston, massachusetts.

Education

Southwest Boston Community Development

The southwest boston community development corporation is led by principles of racial equity and inclusion, to alleviate social and economic disparities that impact people's quality of life and future opportunities. it shall be led by and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artsboston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/27

the rest of the field

1,541/17,248

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

22/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,744,500Arts & Culture$130,000Human Services$100,000Health$85,000Education$30,000Employment$30,000Recreation & Sports$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Liberty Mutual Foundation IncMA34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Children's Hospital Corporation · Priscilla Alden Uwo · Yawkey Foundation II · Td Charitable Foundation · Edvestors Inc · The Fish Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation DEBORAH M NOONAN MEMORIAL FUND funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BALLETROX.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 043140205 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BALLETROX, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Deborah M Noonan Memorial Fund?

Find your warmest path to Deborah M Noonan Memorial Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DEBORAH M NOONAN MEMORIAL FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Deborah M Noonan Memorial Fund?

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DEBORAH M NOONAN MEMORIAL FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Deborah M Noonan Memorial Fund?

More from the funding graph