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Noel Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$371k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$741kYouth Development$501kEducation$383kPhilanthropy$251kHealth$241kReligion$192kFood & Nutrition$100kHuman Services$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $306k
$9,250
Median grant
2
States reached
$990k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STEVENS POIN$102,750
NYUMBANI TREES PROJECT$91,153
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POI$57,000
UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY$55,000
HOLY SPIRIT PARISH$11,500
OPERATION BOOTSTRAP$10,000
TRANSACT HOPE$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN$9,250
PORTAGE COUNTY CULTURAL FESTIVAL$6,000
THE SEED FOUNDATION$5,000
YMCA OF STEVENS POINT$5,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTR$3,000
BREAD FOR THE WORLD INSTITUTE$3,000
CENTRAL WISCONSIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTR$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$1,000
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.

Your US giving — 70% of grant dollars ($1.8M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 30% that went abroad ($791k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%OPERATION BOOTSTRAP: $10k → 10%OPERATION BOOTSTRAP: $10k → 10%OPERATION BOOTSTRAP: $10k → 10%OPERATION BOOTSTRAP: $10k → 10%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.

Beyond the US — 30% of all-years giving ($791k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Kenya$791k · 7 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 28 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
13

Total granted

$2.5M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+8%

Still filing today

39%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $188k · revenue +78%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $100k · revenue +30%
  • OB
    OPERATION BOOTSTRAP
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -9%
  • KH
    KJER HOME
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • TC
    TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +11%

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
Portage County Business Council Foundation Inc

To provide a forum for the development of emerging leaders in portage county, to promote excellence in education with all levels of educational institutions including encouragement of partnerhsip activities with the community and…

Education
2
Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc
3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

4
Wisconsin Council On Economic Education Inc

To enhance the quality and quantity of economics education in wisconsin.

Social Science
5
Wisconsin Public Broadcasting Foundation Inc

The Wisconsin Public Broadcasting Foundation WPBF supports the work of the Educational Communications Board ECB a State of Wisconsin agency committed to ensuring that public media and public safety programs and services are available…

Arts & Culture
6
Portage Development Board

To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.

Public Benefit
7
Wisconsin Technology Council Inc

To lead wisconsin in development and retention of science and tech-based businesses and to provide policy guidance to lawmakers, the governor of wisconsin, state agencies, and other institutions.

Community Improvement
8
Portage County Big Brothers and Big
Youth Development
9
The Uwm Foundation Inc

The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…

Education
10
Project Success

Project success motivates and inspires young people to dream about the future, helps them take steps to get there and gives them the tools they need to achieve their goals. see schedule o for expanded mission statement.

Education
11
The Portage Foundation

The portage foundation inspires, impacts, and engages the portage county community by ensuring pathways of enduring support to meet local needs. we are committed to integrity and accountability in connecting donors with recipients,…

12
Mathematics Institute of Wisconsin Co Kathryn Leverenz
Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Portage County Cultural Festival 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

17 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. 17 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NYUMBANI TREES PROJECT — $741,474 · OtherNYUMBANI TREES PROJECTBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STEVENS POIN — $302,750 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STEVENS POINUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POI — $246,022 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POIUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC — $229,375 · OtherUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INCHOLY SPIRIT PARISH — $146,056 · OtherHOLY SPIRIT PARISHUNITY POINT HEALTH MERITER — $100,000 · Other+25 more — $318,684 · Other+25 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE — $187,966 · Youth Development+1 more — $800 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC — $100,000 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 · EducationTHE SEED FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationBread for the World Institute — $30,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $26,330 · InternationalOPERATION BOOTSTRAP — $40,000 · Human ServicesTRANSACT HOPE — $40,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,084,361Youth Development$188,766Health$100,100Education$92,000International$56,330Human Services$40,000Housing & Shelter$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC — $229,375 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE — $187,966 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BOOTSTRAP — $40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTRANSACT HOPE — $40,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBread for the World Institute — $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $26,330 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRICKLEBEE CAFE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetPortage County Cultural Festival Inc — $11,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPORTAGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL WISCONSIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEpilepsy Foundation of Wisconsin Inc — $100 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 UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds OPERATION BOOTSTRAP
  • Who funds TRANSACT HOPE
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Bread for the World Institute
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC
  • Who funds Portage County Cultural Festival Inc
  • Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PORTAGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds CREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED
  • Who funds Epilepsy Foundation of Wisconsin Inc

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin IncWI28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin Inc · Edward J Okray Foundation Inc · Seramur Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Peters Family Foundation Inc · Sentry Insurance Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · American Gift Fund · McPartland Family Foundation Inc · Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Wisconsin Inc · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Noel Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Noel Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Noel Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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