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Noonmark Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
82
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$22kReligion$11kEducation$9kEnvironment$8kCommunity Improvement$5kInternational$5kHealth$4kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
19
States reached
$99k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CHICAGO$1,071
LAKE PLACID SINFONIETTA$1,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$770
FALCON RIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL$650
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$650
987 WFMT$650
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$578
KEENE VALLEY LIBRARY$480
EASTERSEALS$435
CHRIST CHURCH WINNETKA$420
KEENE VALLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$350
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$350
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC$325
OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC$325
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF EVANSTONNORTH SHORE$300
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MERCY CHEFS: $70 → 20%MERCY CHEFS: $50 → 20%COVENANT HOUSE: $230 → 17%CHILDREN'S HOME AND AID SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $135 → 14%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

MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC
AL
GA
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$55k · 80 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
96

Total granted

$55k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+25%

Still filing today

59%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IP
    IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +32%
  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +28%
  • JL
    JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CR
    CHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE
    one grant, 2022 · $650 · revenue +16%
  • TL
    THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $410 · revenue +227%
  • GC
    GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION-US
    one grant, 2023 · $400 · revenue -77%
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
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
American Gas Association

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…

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4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
Npr Foundation

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…

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6
National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
American Geophysical Union

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…

Science & Tech
9
American Water Works Association

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.

Public Benefit
10
DePauw University

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…

Education
11
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Humanities Council Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

139 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. 139 of the 217 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
138/139
Grantees still filing
98/139
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRIST CHURCH: $6,930 · OtherCHRIST CHURCHTHE LAKE PLACID SINFONIETTA INC: $4,675 · OtherTHE LAKE PLACID SINFONIETTA INCKEENE VALLEY CONGREGATIONAL UCC: $1,950 · OtherCHIRST CHURCH WINNETKA: $1,880 · Other+112 more: $24,444 · Other+112 moreIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $3,058 · Arts & CultureIOWA PUBLIC R…THE ADLER PLANETARIUM: $1,005 · Arts & CultureTHE ADLER PLA…FOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL: $553 · Arts & CultureFOLK ALLIANCE…THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC: $410 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $400 · Arts & CultureAUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $350 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $300 · Arts & Culture+23 more: $2,732 · Arts & Culture+23 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,860 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVE…THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CHICAGO INC: $2,226 · Community ImprovementTHE JUNIOR …JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC: $1,700 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAG…Junior League of Evanston-North Shore Inc: $300 · Community ImprovementWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $250 · Community Improvement+2 more: $125 · Community ImprovementWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,425 · EnvironmentWORLD WIL…THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $1,025 · EnvironmentTHE WILDE…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $980 · EnvironmentENVIRONME…CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $503 · EnvironmentCHICAGO H…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $455 · EnvironmentNATURAL R…ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $325 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $260 · Environment+6 more: $380 · Environment+6 moreST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $1,250 · EducationWHEATON COLLEGE: $700 · EducationGLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION-US: $400 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $368 · EducationFoxcroft School: $250 · EducationCORNELL COLLEGE: $250 · EducationEVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 202 ED FOUNDATION: $225 · EducationKeene Valley Library Association: $200 · EducationCHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION: $200 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $200 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $165 · Education+7 more: $610 · EducationUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,853 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $760 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $680 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $475 · InternationalFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $300 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $200 · International+4 more: $402 · InternationalALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $995 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $770 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $150 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $125 · HealthHealthwell Foundation: $100 · Health+1 more: $25 · Health
Other$39,879Arts & Culture$8,808Community Improvement$7,461Environment$6,353Education$4,818International$4,670Health$2,165

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE LAKE PLACID SINFONIETTA INC: $4,675 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $3,058 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,860 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,425 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CHICAGO INC: $2,226 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,853 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF CEDAR RAPIDS INC: $1,700 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEvanston Community Foundation: $1,325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $1,025 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADLER PLANETARIUM: $1,005 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $995 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $980 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $795 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $770 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $760 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $680 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $580 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL: $553 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $503 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $475 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $455 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $435 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC: $410 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION-US: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $368 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Evanston-North Shore Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $275 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $260 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoxcroft School: $250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSTON HISTORY CENTER: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORNELL COLLEGE: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINNETKA YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $240 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $230 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 202 ED FOUNDATION: $225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $225 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $202 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADIRONDACK CAROUSEL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOUR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

John D and Catherine …Circle of Service Fou…Cloudsplitter Foundat…Adirondack FoundationThe Chicago Community…Lewis-Sebring Family …The Howard S Dubin Fa…Tawani Charitable Dis…JM McDonald Foundatio…Owen D and Jennifer T…Baxter International …Elizabeth Beidler Tis…
John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL20.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Noonmark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Noonmark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 217 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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