· Private foundation
The Noah 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVE AND LET LIVE | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE | $10,000 |
| LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| BECKY'S GIFT EQUINE RELIEF | $10,000 |
| SQUAM LAKE SCIENCE CENTER | $9,000 |
| NHSPCA | $8,000 |
| MSSPA | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT PHILADELPHIA ZOO | $5,000 |
| COOS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $4,000 |
| ELAINE CONNORS CENTER FOR WILDLIFE | $4,000 |
| CHANGING LIVES EQUINE CENTER | $3,000 |
| DRAFT GRATITUDE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 81% of The Noah Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 70% of the giving stays in NH; by stated purpose, 10%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY INC6× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +81%
- BGBECKY'S GIFT EQUINE RELIEF5× · 2018–2024 · $34k · revenue +161% · 25% of their budget
- LALIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC4× · 2018–2023 · $27k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- NFNH FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICAone grant, 2018 · $5k
- NSNH SPAY AND NEUTER ANIMAL CONTROLone grant, 2018 · $5k
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +12%
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.
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.
Rescue and sanctuary for horses, donkeys, and mules.
Pasture time rescues unwanted equines, especially draft horses, which could be destined for slaughter. we care for these animals for the remainder of their lives.
Animal rescue, we rescue equines from the slaughter pipeline and rehibilitation
Rescued abused abandoned and neglected horses and farm animals including goats pigs chickens and donkeys. Provided emergency care veterinary services proper nutrition shelter and behavioral rehabilitation to each intake.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BECKY'S GIFT EQUINE RELIEF ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds DRAFT GRATITUDE ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Noah Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Noah Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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