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J Peter and Marjorie L Noonan Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

J Peter and Marjorie L Noonan Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$183k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$315kReligion$86kHuman Services$69kEducation$23kPhilanthropy$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kEnvironment$100
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $168k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Joseph Parish$56,000
National Brain Tumor Society$56,000
Tommy's Place Foundation$56,000
YMCA of Cape Cod$10,000
The Cape Cod Foundation$2,000
The Alan Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn$1,325
Tommy's Place Foundation$1,325
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Tommy's Place Foundation: $56k → 8%Tommy's Place Foundation: $1k → 8%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.
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.

12%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$60k · 6 repeat orgs$454k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +160% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$60k
$274k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+160%
+0%

Still filing today

33%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LC
    LOWELL CATHOLIC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $30k
  • EMMANUEL COLLEGE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $21k · revenue +34%
  • SE
    St Elizabeth Seton Parish
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k

Funded once

  • BH
    BETHANY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $232k · revenue -2%
  • SH
    Signature Healthcare Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • VL
    Villa la Paz Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
2
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc

Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.

Human Services
3
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
4
The Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc

The ouimet fund's purpose is to help deserving young men and women, who have worked at golf courses in massachusetts, obtain a college education. we provide need-based college scholarships, which are renewable and worth an average of…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

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

—
6
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

—
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Laboure College of Healthcare Inc

Laboure college provides high-quality education and prepares women and men for careers in nursing and allied health fields.

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9
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
10
Ocean State Cancer Crushers
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11
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
12
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany Health Care Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETHANY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC: $231,775 · OtherBETHANY HEALTH CARE CENTER INCNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $56,000 · OtherNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INCSt Joseph Parish: $56,000 · OtherSt Joseph ParishLOWELL CATHOLIC: $30,000 · OtherLOWELL CATHOLICSignature Healthcare Corporation: $25,000 · OtherSignature Healthcare CorporationVilla la Paz Foundation: $15,000 · Other+4 more: $17,000 · OtherTommy's Place Foundation Inc: $57,325 · Human ServicesTommy's Plac…EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $21,000 · EducationCape Cod Foundation Inc: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC: $2,100 · Health10-19 Foundation Inc: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentThe Alan K and Isabelle DerKazarian Fdn: $1,325 · PhilanthropyBOURNE CONSERVATION TRUST: $100 · Environment
Other$430,775Human Services$57,325Education$23,250Health$2,100Youth Development$1,500Philanthropy$1,325Environment$100

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 budgetBETHANY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC: $231,775 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSignature Healthcare Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCape Cod Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCape Cod Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget10-19 Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFALMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOURNE CONSERVATION TRUST: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 J Peter and Marjorie L Noonan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Peter and Marjorie L Noonan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to J Peter and Marjorie L Noonan 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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