· Private foundation
The Lloyd and Vivian Noble 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEADING THE WAY | $600,000 |
| FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL | $450,000 |
| HELP THE PERSECUTED | $300,000 |
| WHITEFIELD ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY SBA LIST FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $150,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CENTER FOR RENEWING AMERICA | $75,000 |
| CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER | $75,000 |
| JACOB'S LADDER INC | $60,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| COMPASS | $50,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +22% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +12%- FRFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +16%
- PUPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $700k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $30k
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCHone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -13%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD INDIAone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
First liberty institute provides pro bono legal services to advance and defend religious liberty for individuals, churches, and other ministries and organizations.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
Summit ministries is an educational christian ministry with the purpose of equipping tomorrow's servant leaders to analyze competing worldviews and champion the christian faith, inspiring each one to love god with all his heart, soul,…
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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 37 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
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 41 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 THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UBORATZ INC ↗
- Who funds THEOLOGICAL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds Center for Renewing America Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Living on the Edge Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds NETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Forum of Christian Leaders ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds JIM THORPE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPION MINISTRIES 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.
Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Holman Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 The Lloyd and Vivian Noble 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.
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