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Edward John Noble Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Religion$15MEducation$2.9MArts & Culture$2.2MEnvironment$1.2MPhilanthropy$963kHealth$248kYouth Development$182kHuman Services$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $315k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.4M
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$121M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST CATHERINE'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC$3,000,000
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$386,730
CLIMATE ADOVOCATES VOCES UNIDAS$150,000
GREENWICH HOSPITAL$50,000
THE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA$30,000
CAMP MOHAWK INC$25,000
FAMILY CENTERS INC$25,000
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$25,000
MADISON SQUARE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION INC$25,000
BRUCE MUSEUM INC$25,000
ST BARNABAS CHURCH$15,000
ST THOMAS MORE PLAY GROUP INC$15,000
THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM$15,000
THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%YWCA GREENWICH: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

VT
NH
NY
MA
CT
NM
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 26 repeat orgs$517k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
26

Total granted

$22M
$374k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+4%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • SC
    ST CATHERINE'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $15M · revenue +18% · 97% of their budget
  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +13%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • O5
    OTHER 501C3 CHARITIES
    one grant, 2023 · $58k
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $55k
  • GH
    GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
5
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
6
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
10
Ithaca College

Our mission is to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice, and performance.

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Catherine's Island Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Health CentersCommunity Arts OrganizationsYouth Development CentersEarly Childhood Education C…At-Risk Youth MentoringPublic University Foundatio…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Classical Music EnsemblesLand Conservation Organizat…Pregnancy Support ServicesEducation Equity LeadershipIndependent K-8 SchoolsEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…
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 47 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr17%4%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr14%10%20–35yr9%43%35–55yr13%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr14%5%20–35yr9%69%35–55yr13%25%55yr+

The field is 28% 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 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
19%
10,947/58,248

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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST CATHERINE'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC — $15,150,000 · OtherST CATHERINE'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INCCOMMUNITY FUNDS INC — $850,000 · Other+24 more — $571,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $1,300,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF D…ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $1,020,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE U…ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL — $110,000 · EducationFairfield University — $100,000 · Education+9 more — $220,000 · Education+9 moreAmerican Museum of Natural History — $1,836,280 · Arts & CultureAmerican M…BRUCE MUSEUM INC — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $194,500 · Arts & Culture+14 moreCLIMATE ADVOCATES VOCES UNIDAS — $1,150,000 · Environment+5 more — $42,500 · EnvironmentGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $200,000 · HealthHEART INCLUSIVE ARTS COMMUNITY — $20,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc — $10,000 · HealthCANTON-POTSDAM HOSPITAL — $10,000 · Health+2 more — $8,000 · HealthMadison Square Boys & Girls Club — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentMadison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$16,571,500Education$2,750,000Arts & Culture$2,105,780Environment$1,192,500Health$248,000Youth Development$65,000Philanthropy$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST CATHERINE'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC — $15,150,000 over 6y, 97% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $1,836,280 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $1,300,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCLIMATE ADVOCATES VOCES UNIDAS — $1,150,000 over 5y, 76% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $1,020,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL — $110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFairfield University — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MOHAWK INCORPORATED — $100,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREACH PREP INC — $45,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMadison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCornell University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrimary Stages Company Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetST THOMAS MORE PLAY GROUP INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHEART INCLUSIVE ARTS COMMUNITY — $20,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetSAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANTON-POTSDAM HOSPITAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVANNAH TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRADITIONAL ARTS IN UPSTATE NEW YORK IN — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHANDWEAVING MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIVER HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDUBLIN SCHOOL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE RIVER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCARTIE CORP — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

Northern New York Com…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Twin Trees Foundation…Miller S & Adelaide S…Cleveland H Dodge Fou…The Shubert Foundatio…Price Chopper's Golub…Ibm International Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Andrew & Jeanine McNa…
Northern New York Community Foundation IncNY19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northern New York Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Twin Trees Foundationinc · Miller S & Adelaide S Gaffney Fdn · Cleveland H Dodge Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Andrew & Jeanine McNally 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 Edward John 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Cartie Corp — 3% of income from government
  • Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Edward John Noble Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Edward John Noble Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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