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John H & Ethel G Noble Charitable Trust at a glance

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John H & Ethel G Noble Charitable Trust

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.

$896k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$1.9MHealth$1.0MHousing & Shelter$710kEducation$396kPhilanthropy$310kInternational$270kArts & Culture$170kFood & Nutrition$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $355k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $541k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC$100,000
EDADVANCE$85,669
BREAKING GROUND$80,000
BEST BUDDIES$75,000
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS$50,000
HOMEFRONT INC$50,000
PATH$50,000
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER$50,000
SILVERSOURCE INC$40,000
FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY$40,000
DANBURY HOSPITAL & NEW MILFORD HOSPITAL$40,000
SERVICES & ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN$40,000
NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE$40,000
HUDSON GUILD$35,000
HARC INC$35,000
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 (FY20–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%HARC INC: $35k → 11%AHM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $28k → 11%BRIDGES FROM SCHOOL TO WORK: $30k → 8%SOUTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT AGENCY ON AGING: $20k → 9%HARC INC: $35k → 11%SOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING: $20k → 9%SOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING: $20k → 9%INCLUDENYC: $25k → 17%ELDERHOUSE INC: $10k → 9%ELDERHOUSE INC: $10k → 9%ELDERHOUSE INC: $10k → 9%NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: $50k → 17%NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: $50k → 17%SILVERSOURCE INC: $50k → 9%NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: $50k → 17%SILVERSOURCE INC: $50k → 9%NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: $50k → 17%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $40k → 9%NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: $50k → 17%SILVERSOURCE INC: $50k → 9%NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: $50k → 17%Family & Children's Agency: $40k → 9%SILVERSOURCE INC: $45k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $40k → 9%SILVERSOURCE INC: $40k → 9%Family & Children's Agency: $30k → 9%SILVERSOURCE INC: $40k → 9%HUDSON GUILD: $35k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $35k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $35k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $35k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $25k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $25k → 17%FIND AID FOR THE AGED: $20k → 17%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 30 repeat orgs$698k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
15

Total granted

$4.7M
$443k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+17%

Still filing today

77%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthInternationalOther
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

  • BG
    BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $320k · revenue +41%
  • SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $310k · revenue +28%
  • NY
    NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • PF
    Project Find
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +8%
  • LT
    LIGHT THE WAY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +367%
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
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
2
Advance Care Alliance of Ny Inc

Advance care alliance of new york, inc. (acany) is dedicated to providing the support and services for you or your loved one with an intellectual or developmental disability need to lead an active, healthy, and fulfilling life. acany was…

Human Services
3
Leadingage New York Inc

Leadingage new york represents not-for-profit, mission-driven and public continuing care providers, including nursing homes, senior housing, adult care facilities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living and community…

Civil Rights
4
Job Path Inc

Job path supports people with autism and other developmental disabilities as they make choices about their lives and play valued roles in their communities. job path encourages people to explore what they want out of life and to chart…

Employment
5
Kendal At Ithaca Inc

Our mission is to provide a mutually supportive environment for residents and staff, and to contribute to the greater ithaca community.

Human Services
6
The Way Back Inc

To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…

Human Services
7
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
8
Do for One Nyc

To serve people with developmental disabilities

Human Services
9
Alternatives for Children

To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.

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10
Home Care Association of New York State Inc

To promote and enhance the quality and accessibility of health care and support at home.

Community Improvement
11
Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern New Jersey Inc

Goodwill nynj empowers people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work. goodwill nynj provided services to more than 11,087 adults in fiscal year 2025 through all programs.

Employment
12
Northeast Arc Inc

Helping adults and children with disabilities, (incl asd), become full participants in the community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resources for Children With Special Needs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Silversource Inc. 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

37 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. 37 of the 50 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
28/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROMISE PROJECT INC: $500,000 · OtherPROMISE PROJECT INCSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $310,000 · OtherSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER …HOMEFRONT INC: $250,000 · OtherHOMEFRONT INCGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $220,000 · OtherGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTEREDADVANCE: $171,338 · OtherEDADVANCELAUREL HOUSE INC: $160,000 · OtherSTAR INC: $140,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER: $125,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR LONG TERM CARE POLICY INC: $116,250 · OtherTORVNA HEALTH: $115,000 · Other+20 more: $895,000 · Other+20 moreNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR …FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC: $275,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE …HUDSON GUILDINC: $190,000 · Human ServicesHUDSON GUILDINCFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGEN…HARC INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesHARC INCSOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING INC: $60,000 · Human Services+5 more: $132,890 · Human Services+5 moreBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $320,000 · Housing & ShelterBREAKING …NEW REACH INC: $140,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW REACH…Best Buddies International Inc: $230,000 · InternationalFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyACES EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · PhilanthropyLIGHT THE WAY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $150,000 · Food & NutritionAdvocates for Children of New York: $150,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,002,588Human Services$1,177,890Housing & Shelter$460,000International$230,000Philanthropy$225,000Food & Nutrition$150,000Crime & Legal$150,000

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 budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $320,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $310,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC: $275,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $230,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $220,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC: $190,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEDADVANCE: $171,338 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE INC: $160,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAdvocates for Children of New York: $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEW REACH INC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW OPPORTUNITIES INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARENTS AVAILABLE TO HELP INC (PATH): $90,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetHARC INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACES EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arc Jacksonville Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRVNAHEALTH INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELDERHOUSE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBridges from School to Work Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANDOVER HEBRON MARLBOROUGH YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $27,890 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONLY MAKE BELIEVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIND AID FOR THE AGED INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
  • Who funds GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON GUILDINC ↗
  • Who funds EDADVANCE ↗
  • Who funds LAUREL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Advocates for Children of New York ↗
  • Who funds NEW REACH INC ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PARENTS AVAILABLE TO HELP INC (PATH) ↗
  • Who funds HARC INC ↗
  • Who funds ACES EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Arc Jacksonville Inc ↗
  • Who funds RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds TECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT THE WAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ELDERHOUSE INC ↗

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.

Fairfield County's Co…Connecticut Health Fo…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…Southwestern Ct Agenc…Ernest and Joan Trefz…The Near and Far Asso…Union Savings Bank Fo…New Canaan Community …William Caspar Graust…Peoples United Commun…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Southwestern Ct Agency on Aging Inc · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Peoples United Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 John H & Ethel G Noble Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John H & Ethel G Noble Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Alliance for Community Empowerment Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Harc Inc: 92% of income from government
  • The Kennedy Collective Inc: 79% of income from government
  • New Opportunities Inc: 70% of income from government
  • New Reach Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Southwestern Ct Agency On Aging Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Edadvance: 41% of income from government
  • Parents Available to Help Inc (Path): 37% of income from government
  • Bridges from School to Work Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Rvnahealth Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 50 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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