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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.

$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$97kReligion$43kFood & Nutrition$39kEducation$37kHousing & Shelter$32kPhilanthropy$31kCrime & Legal$27kPublic Benefit$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,000
RECKLESS ABANDON MINISTRIES (AMINTA GEISLER CO)$8,000
REUNITING AFTER WAR (RAW)$5,000
NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION$5,000
SOUTH LAKE MINNETONKA CRIME FUND$5,000
ALPHA NEWS$5,000
FIRST TEE - MINNESOTA$5,000
SOJOURNER PROJECT$5,000
TURNING POINT USA$5,000
NAPLES PATHWAYS COALITION$3,150
FELINE RESCUE$3,000
CHATFIELD LUTHERN CHURCH$3,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILY SERVICE ROCHESTER: $2k → 9%ICA FOOD SHELF: $7k → 11%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $5k → 11%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $5k → 11%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $9k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $7k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%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

MN
IL
MI
IA
OH
AZ
OK
TX
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$300k · 18 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
22

Total granted

$300k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+20%

Still filing today

50%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SA
    SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $31k · revenue +65%
  • TB
    THE BOND BETWEEN
    4× · 2018–2022 · $18k · revenue +166%
  • NV
    NORTHERN VOICES
    3× · 2019–2022 · $12k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • BU
    BETHEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +11%
  • IC
    INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +20%
  • MO
    MISSION OF OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
2
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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3
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

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…

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4
Retrieve a Golden of Minnesota (Ragom) Inc

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…

Animals
5
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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6
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
7
Hero Dogs Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
10
Cornerhouse

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Homeward Bound Foundation

To support the charitable purposes of homeward bound, inc.

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12
Residential Services of Northeastern Minnesota Inc

Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by providing innovative services that promote inclusion and self-determination.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 48 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
20/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $27,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYSOUTH LAKE MINNETONKA CRIME FUND: $27,000 · OtherSOUTH LAKE MINNETONKA CRIME FUNDREUNITING AFTER WAR (RAW): $23,000 · OtherREUNITING AFTER WAR (RAW)HOOAH: $23,000 · OtherHOOAHRECKLESS ABANDON MINISTRIES (AMINTA GEISLER CO): $21,000 · OtherRECKLESS ABANDON MINISTRIES (AMINTA GEISLER CO)LOAVES AND FISHES: $19,000 · OtherLOAVES AND FISHESCHATFIELD LUTHERAN CHURCH: $15,500 · OtherCHATFIELD LUTHERAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $14,759 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · Other+20 more: $65,315 · Other+20 moreSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $30,500 · Human ServicesSHARING AND CARIN…Sojourner Project Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesSojourner Project…LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $8,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR T…INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesINTERCONGREGATION…THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationBETHEL UNIV…NORTHERN VOICES: $12,300 · EducationNORTHERN VO…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HO…Resourcewest: $4,426 · EducationResourcewes…THE BOND BETWEEN: $18,000 · AnimalsFELINE RESCUE INC: $3,000 · AnimalsReuniting After War: $11,556 · Public BenefitSOLDIERS 6 INC: $3,000 · Public BenefitTWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsNaples Pathways Coalition Inc: $3,150 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $350 · Recreation & SportsHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$260,074Human Services$65,500Education$41,726Animals$21,000Public Benefit$14,556Recreation & Sports$13,500Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $30,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOND BETWEEN: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSojourner Project Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHERN VOICES: $12,300 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSCAD RESEARCH INC: $8,033 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALPHA NEWS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEARTS 4 HENRY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResourcewest: $4,426 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNaples Pathways Coalition Inc: $3,150 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFELINE RESCUE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOLDIERS 6 INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ROCHESTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TWIN TO TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Amputee Golf Association Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC: $206 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpero: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds SCAD RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALPHA NEWS ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS 4 HENRY ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…The Jamf Nation Globa…The Graco FoundationPentair FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…Otto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationFingerhut Family Foun…Ch Robinson Worldwide…
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL21.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Noll Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Noll Family Foundation. 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
    8report 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.

    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 48 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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