· Private foundation
Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $342k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $288k
- $250k+1 grant · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANIA INC | $459,673 |
| CWRU MANDEL SCHOOL OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES | $150,000 |
| COLLEGE OF WOOSTER | $85,650 |
| CAMO | $52,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,300 |
| UNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES COUNTY | $22,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA | $20,000 |
| WAYNE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| VIOLA STARTZMAN CLINIC | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF WAYNE COUNTY | $20,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| POINTS NORTH INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| A WHOLE COMMUNITY INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| WOOSTER FIGURE SKATING CLUB | $13,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
91 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $514k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WCWAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS8× · 2017–2024 · $556k · revenue +47%
THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER8× · 2017–2024 · $544k · revenue +17%
DUKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2022 · $281k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- WNWCCF - Noble Foundation donor advised fundone grant, 2021 · $800k
- WCWOOSTER CITY SCHOOLS (LAND DONATION)one grant, 2017 · $467k
- OLONE-EIGHTY LAND DONATIONone grant, 2018 · $150k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
It is the mission of wayne memorial hospital to provide quality healthcare with compassion, advocacy, respect, excellence, and service; to promote wellness in our community; and to be proactive in responding to our community's needs.
All of the expenses of the cww are for the purpose of improving local government and administration through cooperative efforts. all services are provided to various communities in western wayne county, michigan.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
To provide the patient and the community a system for the delivery of high quality health care with the same standard of care regardless of economic status, age, sex, race, or religion.
Wayne mediation center strives to provide the community served with a process for resolving disputes through empowerment, education, and effectiveness.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The westmoreland museum of american art offers a place to share compelling and meaningful cultural experiences that open the door to new ideas, perspectives, and possibilities.
The purpose for which the corporation is formed shall be: - to promote the broad educational and cultural objectives of the members of the corporation by fostering closer cooperation and understanding. - to operate as an alliance for the…
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayne County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ghana Beyond Subsistence. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 194 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Coastal Mountains Land Trust ↗
- Who funds WAYNE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WOOSTER MEMORIAL PARK ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Points North Institute ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA ↗
- Who funds THE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN MEDICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS OF WAYNE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SCHANTZ MAKERSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds SERVING WOMEN IN GHANA ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNSELING CENTER OF WAYNE & HOLMES COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JERRY AND LAURA JACOBSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Wayne County Community Foundation · Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation · Seaman Family Foundation Trust · Charles W & Laura B Frick Irr · United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co · Romich Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation · Charles Loehr Charitable Trust · Orrville United Way Inc · Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 Charitable Fund · Fisher Charitable 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 organization Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis — 17% of income from government
- 2ND Act Org Inc — 5% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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