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Francis Noz Heritage Fund at a glance

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Francis Noz Heritage Fund

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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$390k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Animals$486kHuman Services$485kInternational$280kEnvironment$235kFood & Nutrition$115kEducation$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kHealth$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $201k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $805k
  • $250k+2 grants · $760k
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE$390,000
PEDULI AANAK FOUNDATION$370,304
AMAZON WATCH$100,000
MEALS ON WHEELS (YOLO)$100,000
GLOBAL GIVING FORWARD FUND$80,000
MERCY SHIPS$75,000
JANE GOODALL FOUNDATION$50,000
FRIENDS OF NINOS DE GUATEMALA$50,000
ROOM TO READ$50,000
AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC$50,000
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
ONE TREE PLANTED$50,000
AMERICAN FUNDS OF OCEAN CLEANUP$50,000
CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $450k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PEDULI AANAK FOUNDATION: $370k → 7%PEDULI ANAK FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%ARC OF THE US: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
CT
CA
VA
AZ
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$980k · 5 repeat orgs$946k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$980k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $851k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
AnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +26%
  • AW
    Amazon Watch Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +11%
  • RT
    ROOM TO READ
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +1%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +12%
  • JG
    JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +12%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
5
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
6
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
7
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
8
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
9
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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10
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
11
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
12
International Committee of the Red Cross

The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
11/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $400,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL …THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $31,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE P…MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $25,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $20,000 · Animals+4 more: $35,000 · Animals+4 morePeduli Anak Foundation: $380,304 · Human ServicesPeduli Anak FoundationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cros…THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL GIVING FORWARD FUND: $80,000 · OtherGLOBAL GIVING FORWARD FUN…MERCY SHIPS: $75,000 · OtherMERCY SHIPSAMERICAN FUNDS OF OCEAN CLEANUP: $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN FUNDS OF OCEAN C…JANE GOODALL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherJANE GOODALL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherONE TREE PLANTED INC: $50,000 · OtherONE TREE PLANTED INCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDAT…+4 more: $35,000 · Other+4 moreFRIENDS OF NINOS DE GUATEMALA: $50,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF …AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $50,000 · InternationalAMREF HEALT…International Rescue Committee INC: $30,000 · InternationalInternation…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…Save The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 · InternationalSave The Ch…PROJECT PEARLS USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalMercy Corps: $10,000 · InternationalTHE WHITE HELMETS INC: $10,000 · InternationalAmazon Watch Inc: $110,000 · EnvironmentROOM TO READ: $60,000 · EducationNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $50,000 · EducationMEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition
Animals$511,000Human Services$455,304Other$440,000International$200,000Environment$110,000Education$110,000Food & Nutrition$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $400,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPeduli Anak Foundation: $380,304 over 2y, 94% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetROOM TO READ: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF NINOS DE GUATEMALA: $50,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $31,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPROJECT PEARLS USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOR PAWS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE IT HAPPEN FOR YOLO COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Francis Noz Heritage Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Francis Noz Heritage Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Francis Noz Heritage Fund?

Find your warmest path to Francis Noz Heritage Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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