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Nancy Forsyth Noblin Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$331k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$231kFood & Nutrition$229kHuman Services$160kHealth$137kHousing & Shelter$125kYouth Development$105kRecreation & Sports$84kCrime & Legal$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $225k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES$20,000
OPEN HAND ATLANTA$20,000
THE DRAKE HOUSE$20,000
GEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR BREAST CANCER$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST$15,000
THE ORANGE DUFFEL BAG INITIATIVE$15,000
THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER$10,000
THE ZADIE PROJECT$10,000
BELOVED ATLANTA$10,000
ATLANTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
HOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY$10,000
CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY$10,000
FAMILY PROMISE NORTH FULTON$10,000
THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE$10,000
HANDS ON ATLANTA$10,000
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 (FY19–24, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $5k → 13%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $3k → 13%ATLANTA ARTIST RELIEF FUND: $2k → 14%CHRIS 180: $8k → 14%CHRIS 180: $5k → 14%CHRIS 180: $5k → 14%CHRIS 180: $5k → 14%CHRIS 180: $5k → 14%CHRIS 180: $5k → 14%ATLANTA MISSION: $7k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $7k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $5k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $5k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $20k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $10k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $10k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $8k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $4k → 13%BELOVED ATLANTA: $10k → 13%BELOVED ATLANTA: $6k → 13%BELOVED ATLANTA: $6k → 13%BELOVED ATLANTA: $6k → 13%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

NH
NY
MA
OH
MD
TN
DC
GA
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 34 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -51% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
12

Total granted

$1.1M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-51%

Still filing today

71%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterAnimalsFood & NutritionHealthEducationOther
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

  • TD
    The Drake House Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $102k · revenue +11%
  • TE
    THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +13%
  • OH
    OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $82k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -51%
  • H
    HADDASSAH
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • JL
    JADENS LADDER
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -98%
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
Atlfamilymeal Inc

Atlfamilymeal inc.'s mission is to feed, nourish and support hospitality workers and their families experiencing hunger and joblessness in the metro atlanta community.

Food & Nutrition
2
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.

Food & Nutrition
3
Hope Atlanta Inc

Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.

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4
Feeding the Homeless Project Inc

Feeding homeless individuals in Downtown Atlanta.

Food & Nutrition
5
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
6
Just Bakery of Atlanta Inc

Just Bakery of Atlanta partners with our neighbors who resettled as refugees through paid job training, professional certification, and living wage work.

Employment
7
Community Farmers Markets Inc

To develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy…

Food & Nutrition
8
Atlanta Birth Center Inc

Provides a holistic program with comprehensive midwifery care, a nurturing environment where you feel supported, respected, safe and secure, and personalized family-centered care.

Health
9
Restoration Atl Mission Inc

Restoration Atlanta exists to strengthen & equip under-resourced families to experience holistic restoration. We carry this out through providing ministry, childcare, and child development services to families experiencing homelessness and…

Religion
10
Atlanta Pregnancy Resource Centers Inc

To share the truth and compassion of jesus christ, support life-affirming choices and promote healthy relationships by serving and caring for women and families in pregnancy-related circumstances

—
11
Homeaid Georgia Inc

HomeAids mission is to help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.

Employment
12
Covenant Care Services Inc

Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Bosleys Place 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

38 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. 38 of the 57 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
20/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COPS & KIDS INC: $32,000 · OtherCOPS & KIDS INCNOAH'S ARK ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $30,000 · OtherNOAH'S ARK ANIMAL SANCTUARYWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN (FRONTLINE FOODS): $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF GEORGIA: $19,000 · OtherCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $72,000 · OtherCAMP TWIN LAKES INCHOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS INC: $46,000 · OtherHOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS INCTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $28,000 · OtherTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INCHEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC: $37,500 · OtherHEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC+24 more: $219,000 · Other+24 moreTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $88,000 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT SANC…Dawson County Humane Society Inc: $71,000 · AnimalsDawson County Hum…BOSLEYS PLACE INC: $30,000 · AnimalsBOSLEYS PLACE INCCANINES FOR DISABLED KIDS INC: $12,000 · AnimalsCANINES FOR DISAB…NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $52,000 · Human ServicesNORTH FULTON C…ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $38,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION …CHRIS 180 INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 INCBELOVED ATLANTA INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesBELOVED ATLANT…DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA INC: $8,000 · Human Services+2 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $82,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN HAND AT…THE ZADIE PROJECTINC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionTHE ZADIE PR…MINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA: $22,500 · Food & NutritionMINISTRIES O…CONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $16,000 · Food & NutritionCONCRETE JUN…The Drake House Inc: $102,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Drake …HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FO…SERENADE HEIGHTS INC: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterSERENADE H…REBECCA'S TENT INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE ORANGE DUFFEL BAG INITIATIVE INC: $89,000 · Youth DevelopmentBACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $31,000 · HealthTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $23,200 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $15,000 · HealthGEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR BREAST CANCER F/K/A IT'S THE JOURNEY: $15,000 · Health
Other$503,500Animals$201,000Human Services$165,500Food & Nutrition$150,500Housing & Shelter$124,500Youth Development$101,500Health$84,200

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 budgetThe Drake House Inc: $102,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ORANGE DUFFEL BAG INITIATIVE INC: $89,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $88,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $82,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $72,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDawson County Humane Society Inc: $71,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $52,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS INC: $46,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $38,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC: $37,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ZADIE PROJECTINC: $30,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetBOSLEYS PLACE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetBELOVED ATLANTA INC: $28,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $28,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $23,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA: $22,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR BREAST CANCER F/K/A IT'S THE JOURNEY: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJADENS LADDER: $12,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCANINES FOR DISABLED KIDS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetLITERACY ACTION INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHands on Atlanta Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA-FULTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERENADE HEIGHTS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetREBECCA'S TENT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMust Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEverybody Wins Atlanta Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 The Drake House Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ORANGE DUFFEL BAG INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
  • Who funds Dawson County Humane Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ZADIE PROJECTINC ↗
  • Who funds BOSLEYS PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds BELOVED ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA ↗
  • Who funds CONCRETE JUNGLE INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR BREAST CANCER F/K/A IT'S THE JOURNEY ↗
  • Who funds BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds JADENS LADDER ↗
  • Who funds CANINES FOR DISABLED KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Hands on Atlanta 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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA30.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Nancy Forsyth Noblin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nancy Forsyth Noblin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Nancy Forsyth Noblin 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 57 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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