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Noll Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| RECKLESS ABANDON MINISTRIES (AMINTA GEISLER CO) | $8,000 |
| ALPHA NEWS | $5,000 |
| REUNITING AFTER WAR (RAW) | $5,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $5,000 |
| SOUTH LAKE MINNETONKA CRIME FUND | $5,000 |
| FIRST TEE - MINNESOTA | $5,000 |
| NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SOJOURNER PROJECT | $5,000 |
| NAPLES PATHWAYS COALITION | $3,150 |
| FELINE RESCUE | $3,000 |
| CHATFIELD LUTHERN CHURCH | $3,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY18–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SASHARING AND CARING HANDS INC5× · 2018–2022 · $31k · revenue +65%
- TBTHE BOND BETWEEN4× · 2018–2022 · $18k · revenue +150%
- NVNORTHERN VOICES3× · 2019–2022 · $12k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- BUBETHEL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +11%
- ICINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +20%
- MOMISSION OF OUR LADY OF THE ANGELSone grant, 2021 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Engaging the community to end hunger
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
Retrieve a golden of the midwest (ragom) rescues, fosters, and rehomes golden retrievers and golden mixes that can no longer remain in their current environments. the organization ensures each dog receives necessary veterinary care and…
Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
To support the charitable purposes of homeward bound, inc.
Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by providing innovative services that promote inclusion and self-determination.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hearts 4 Henry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 48 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOND BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds Sojourner Project Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VOICES ↗
- Who funds Reuniting After War ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SCAD RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS 4 HENRY ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALPHA NEWS ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Resourcewest ↗
- Who funds Naples Pathways Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds FELINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS 6 INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TWIN TO TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Pentair Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Fingerhut Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation
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 Noll Family 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.
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.