Iowa · Private foundation
The Noble Foundation
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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $23,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 39
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Noble Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $1.2M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $1.2M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $1.1M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $1.1M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $738k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $64k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $89k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drake University | $1,000,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ellipsis Inc | $650,000 | 4 | 4% |
| On With Life Inc | $550,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa | $300,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Community Food Bank of Central Alabama | $215,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $127,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lakeside Hospice Inc | $126,778 | 5 | 2% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $120,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Alabama Veteran | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($540k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Noble Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Deb & Bob Pulver Foundation · The Denny and Candy Elwell Foundation · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · Lsb Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation
How this is measured
About The Noble Foundation
- How much does The Noble Foundation give?
- The Noble Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $1,234,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 39 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Noble Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Education (19%), Religion (9%).
- Who are The Noble Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Drake University ($1.0M), Ellipsis Inc ($650k), On With Life Inc ($550k).
- Does The Noble Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Noble Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Noble Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Power Foundation Inc, Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc, EMC Insurance Foundation.
- Where is The Noble Foundation based?
- The Noble Foundation is based in IA.
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