· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AVASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC8× · 2018–2025 · $244k · revenue +86%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER4× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +22%
- RTRETURN TO FREEDOM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- SOSons of the Flag Burn Foundationone grant, 2017 · $50k
- AVAspen Vail Ski Snowboard Clubone grant, 2017 · $35k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +3%
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.
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.
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.…
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…
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…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Sundance institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences.
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Noble Lane Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Noble Lane Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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