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Noonmark Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CHICAGO | $1,071 |
| LAKE PLACID SINFONIETTA | $1,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $770 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC | $650 |
| 987 WFMT | $650 |
| FALCON RIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL | $650 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $578 |
| KEENE VALLEY LIBRARY | $480 |
| EASTERSEALS | $435 |
| CHRIST CHURCH WINNETKA | $420 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $350 |
| KEENE VALLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $350 |
| OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC | $325 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $325 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $300 |
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 (FY22–24, $485) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +26% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 33 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- IPIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC6× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +32%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC4× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +28%- JLJUNIOR LEAGUE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC4× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CRCHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLEone grant, 2022 · $650 · revenue +16%
- TLTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $410 · revenue +227%
- GCGLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION-USone grant, 2023 · $400 · revenue -77%
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Humanities Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sarah Siddons Society Inc. 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 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
139 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. 139 of the 217 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE LAKE PLACID SINFONIETTA INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ADLER PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds FOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION-US ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Cloudsplitter Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation · The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation · Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Owen D and Jennifer Thomas Family Chari Trust · Baxter International Foundation · Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl 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 Noonmark 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.