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Noble Lane Foundation

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.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$305kRecreation & Sports$280kAnimals$40kEducation$40kHuman Services$33kInternational$14kEnvironment$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SONS OF THE FLAG$25,000
BIRDS EYE VIEW PROJECT$15,000
ASPEN VALLEY SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB$14,198
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$5,000
AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION$3,239
RETURN TO FREEDOM$2,000
PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA$1,632
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 (FY23–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%BIRDS EYE VIEW PROJECT: $15k → 14%BIRDS EYE VIEW PROJECT: $10k → 14%BIRDS EYE VIEW PROJECT: $8k → 14%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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$628k · 8 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$628k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+69%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalEducationOther

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

  • AV
    ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $244k · revenue +86%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    4× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +22%
  • RT
    RETURN TO FREEDOM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • SO
    Sons of the Flag Burn Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • AV
    Aspen Vail Ski Snowboard Club
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +3%

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
Vail International Pro Am
Recreation & Sports
2
Runners for Public Lands

We empower runners to protect public lands, engage in climate action, and expand access to nature for all. Runners are motivated to be involved in their local communities to protect cherished landscapes and expand access to nature.…

Environment
3
Boulder Council for International Visitors Inc

Boulder Council for International Visitors is a volunteer organization that is a local host organization that arranges local meetings with professionals, politicians, educators, artists and social events for up-and-coming leaders from…

4
International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals
5
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
6
Sundance Institute

Sundance institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences.

Arts & Culture
7
Aspen Sports Medicine Foundation
Health
8
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
9
American National Standards Institute

To enhance both the global competitiveness of u.s. business and the u.s. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.

Public Benefit
10
The Aspen Strong Foundation
11
Team Summit

Team summit is a youth development organization empowering our athletes to realize and celebrate their personal podiums through athletics, education and life skills by participating in innovative programming at our world class venues.

Recreation & Sports
12
Alliance for Sustainable Energy Llc

The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspen Valley Skisnowboard Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bevp Birds Eye View Project. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Sons of the Flag — $255,000 · OtherSons of the FlagSons of the Flag Burn Foundation — $50,000 · OtherSons of the Flag Burn FoundationAspen Vail Ski Snowboard Club — $35,000 · OtherAspen Vail Ski Snowboard ClubAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION — $21,039 · OtherAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION+1 more — $2,300 · OtherASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC — $244,198 · Recreation & SportsASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC+1 more — $800 · Recreation & SportsUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $40,000 · EducationBEVP Birds Eye View Project — $33,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,000 · Human ServicesRETURN TO FREEDOM INC — $19,400 · AnimalsPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $13,504 · InternationalASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$363,339Recreation & Sports$244,998Education$40,000Human Services$35,000Animals$19,400International$13,504Philanthropy$500

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 budgetASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC — $244,198 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEVP Birds Eye View Project — $33,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRETURN TO FREEDOM INC — $19,400 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $13,504 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute — $2,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Lacrosse Club — $800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
  • Who funds BEVP Birds Eye View Project
  • Who funds RETURN TO FREEDOM INC
  • Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC
  • Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds Aspen Lacrosse Club
  • Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Noble Lane Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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