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The Noble Causes Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Noble Causes Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
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 2025.

Education$135kHuman Services$91kArts & Culture$15kRecreation & Sports$5kCrime & Legal$3kMembership Benefit$2kYouth Development$2kHealth$1k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION$20,000
PLACE OF HOPE$11,521
JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC$10,000
SAPPER ASSOCIATION$2,000
CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES$1,030
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 (FY17–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $25k → 4%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $21k → 4%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $15k → 4%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $10k → 4%PLACE OF HOPE: $12k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $4k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $2k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $2k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $812 → 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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$220k · 7 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$220k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
0%

Still filing today

57%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther
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

  • ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +131%
  • PO
    PLACE OF HOPE INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +102%
  • LK
    Lauren's Kids Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • SA
    SAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • AA
    ARMY A CLUB
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • CH
    CAMP HAVEN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $71,000 · Human ServicesJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INCPLACE OF HOPE INC: $20,391 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE INC+1 more: $1,030 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $67,344 · Public BenefitASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES O…ST ANDREWS SCHOOL: $39,700 · OtherST ANDREWS SCHOOLJOHNNY MAC SOLDIER FUND: $15,000 · OtherJOHNNY MAC SOLDIER FUNDBOCA RATON YOUTH SPORTS INC: $3,500 · OtherBOCA RATON YOUTH SPORTS INC+3 more: $4,650 · Other+3 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSI…SAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC: $7,500 · EducationSAINT ANDREW…Lauren's Kids Inc: $3,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$92,421Public Benefit$67,344Other$62,850Education$27,500Crime & Legal$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $71,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $67,344 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $20,391 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLauren's Kids Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.4% 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 JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC ↗
  • Who funds Lauren's Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES INC ↗

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.

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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 The Noble Causes Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Noble Causes Foundation Inc. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Lauren's Kids Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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