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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 FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$2.1MEducation$1.0MReligion$473kAnimals$451kFood & Nutrition$443kHuman Services$340kPhilanthropy$204kInternational$120kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $433k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$23,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELLIPSIS$250,000
GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY$250,000
VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA$175,000
ON WITH LIFE$50,000
LAKESIDE HOSPICE$50,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$40,000
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS$35,000
ST CLAIR COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC$30,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY$25,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$25,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$25,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$25,000
EASTVIEW COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
ANAWIM HOUSING INC$25,000
ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL$25,000
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 (FY19–25, $434k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%HUNGER HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 21%TIMBER CREEK CHARITIES: $5k → 10%BIG OAK RANCH: $10k → 18%RAINBOW OMEGA: $6k → 18%ALABAMA SHERIFF'S YOUTH RANCHES: $50k → 18%MERCY CHEFS: $10k → 20%TIMBER CREEK CHARITIES: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%TIMBER CREEK CHARITIES: $3k → 10%BIG OAK RANCH: $10k → 13%TIMBER CREEK CHARITIES: $2k → 10%LAKESIDE HOSPICE: $50k → 13%LAKESIDE HOSPICE INC: $29k → 13%LAKESIDE HOSPICE INC: $28k → 13%LAKESIDE HOSPICE INC: $15k → 13%LAKESIDE HOSPICE: $5k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY: $25k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY: $20k → 12%ALABAMA SHERIFF'S YOUTH RANCHES: $20k → 12%HOUSTON PROJECT: $15k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY: $15k → 12%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $20k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGION COUNCIL: $20k → 10%HOUSTON PROJECT: $4k → 13%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%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

NY
IA
MO
VA
TN
NC
DC
AL
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 46 repeat orgs$799k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
18

Total granted

$4.7M
$384k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $415k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +4%
  • EI
    ELLIPSIS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $650k · revenue +8%
  • OW
    ON WITH LIFE INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $550k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • AV
    ALABAMA VETERAN
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -90%
  • CT
    CHRIST THE KING
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • IH
    IOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +14%
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
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
2
Adams County Pet Rescue

Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.

Animals
3
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
4
Animal Lifeline of Iowa Inc

Animal lifeline is a special needs no kill animal shelter that helps dogs & cats that are abused, seriously ill, handicapped, pregnant & nursing moms, orphan babies that need to be bottle fed & abandoned. we provide vet care, surgery,…

Animals
5
Christian Community Care Clinic

To provide medical care to the uninsured.

Health
6
Chattahoochee Hospice Inc

The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.

Human Services
7
Mississippi Animal Rescue League

Aquisition and care for homeless and abused animals prevention of cruelty to animals through education

Animals
8
Iowa Bird Rehabilitation

The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…

Animals
9
Macomb County Humane Society

Provide care for homeless/abused animals

Animals
10
Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County Inc

None

Animals
11
Fordland Clinic Inc

To improve the health of our wider rural community and to serve as the independent provider of choice by offering comprehensive healthcare services to all area residents without regard to insurance or income.

Health
12
Humane Society of Douglas County

To feed, shelter, and provide medical care to abandoned and lost animals

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childserve Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Angies Dog House. 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

54 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. 54 of the 75 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
33/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ON WITH LIFE INC: $550,000 · OtherON WITH LIFE INCVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA: $300,000 · OtherVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWAST SIMON PETER EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $260,500 · OtherST SIMON PETER EPISCOPAL CHURCHPILOTS FOR CHRIST INC: $90,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $120,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSEALABAMA VETERAN: $100,000 · Other+32 more: $571,245 · Other+32 moreDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITY+2 more: $29,000 · EducationELLIPSIS INC: $650,000 · HealthELLIPSIS INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S R…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $65,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FO…ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health+3 more: $50,000 · HealthTHE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $250,000 · AnimalsTHE GREAT…Humane World for Animals Inc: $70,000 · AnimalsHumane Wo…ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC: $65,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RE…Angies Dog House: $38,000 · AnimalsAngies Do…GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · AnimalsGREAT OUT…+2 more: $20,000 · AnimalsLAKESIDE HOSPICE INC: $126,778 · Human ServicesLAKESIDE …ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesALABAMA S…FAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY: $60,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PR…DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $40,000 · Human ServicesDES MOINE…CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC: $32,200 · Human ServicesCHILDSERV…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …BIG OAK RANCH INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOUSTON PROJECT: $19,000 · Human Services+4 more: $41,000 · Human Services+4 moreCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $215,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $75,000 · Food & NutritionCARING HANDS OUTREACH CENTER INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionCHRISTIAN LOVE PANTRY INC: $52,500 · Food & NutritionUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $127,000 · PhilanthropyST CLAIR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $26,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,991,745Education$1,029,000Health$1,015,000Animals$468,000Human Services$453,978Food & Nutrition$417,500Philanthropy$153,000

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 budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetELLIPSIS INC: $650,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetON WITH LIFE INC: $550,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA: $300,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetTHE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $215,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $127,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESIDE HOSPICE INC: $126,778 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA VETERAN: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPILOTS FOR CHRIST INC: $90,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCARING HANDS OUTREACH CENTER INC: $75,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY: $60,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN LOVE PANTRY INC: $52,500 over 4y, 21% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEcumenical Ministries Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAngies Dog House: $38,000 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetPERDIDO BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $35,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC: $32,200 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDENTAL CONNECTIONS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetST CLAIR COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetST CLAIR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $26,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetGREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE IOWA: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEastview Community Center: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $15,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTIMBER CREEK CHARITIES: $15,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetBALDWIN COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION: $14,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHUNGER HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCEDAR BEND HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAHEINZ57 PET RESCUE & TRANSPORT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMISSOURI CONSERVATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW OMEGA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Alabama Power Foundat…Prairie Meadows Race …EMC Insurance Foundat…Wt and Edna M Dahl Tr…Community Fdn of Grea…The West Bancorporati…GreenState Credit Uni…Deb & Bob Pulver Foun…The Denny and Candy E…Kyle J & Sharon Kraus…Lsb FoundationMeredith Corporation …
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL25.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 2 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 75 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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