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The Noblitt 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.

$275k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Religion$1.0MHuman Services$307kArts & Culture$300kInternational$175kCivil Rights$80kYouth Development$40kRecreation & Sports$40kHealth$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY$100,000
SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME$50,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$40,000
EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL MS$20,000
MISSION FIRST$20,000
CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK - ORPHAN'S PROMISE$15,014
CANOPY CHILDREN'S SOLUTIONS$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME: $50k → 11%SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME: $50k → 11%SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 11%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME: $12k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$1.6M
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-6%

Still filing today

56%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthReligionEducationCivil RightsAnimalsOther

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

  • WB
    WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +26%
  • SC
    SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $137k · revenue +65%
  • HV
    HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +15%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +63%
  • EM
    EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Mission Mississippi

To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.

Civil Rights
2
Methodist Children's Home

Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.

Human Services
3
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
4
Greater Missoula Youth for Christ

Yfc reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to prayer

Youth Development
5
Christian Services for Children in Alabama

The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.

6
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
7
Bless the Children Ministries Inc

To be the love of christ to uganda's orphaned and vulnerable children, equipping them to become authentic godly leaders that transform generations

International
8
Christian Works for Children Inc

Adoption, maternity & parenting services, family & individual counseling, children's support groups

Human Services
9
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Washington Inc

Child evangelism fellowship is an evangelical,bible-centered mission whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the gospel of the lord jesus christ and to establish and disciple them in the word of god and in a local church for…

Religion
10
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
11
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
12
Children's Foundation of Mississippi

To improve the well-being of mississippi's children through the design, promotion and improvement of systems and services.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mcclean Fletcher Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cheshire Abbey. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PARENTS TELEVISION AND MEDIA COUNCIL — $300,000 · OtherPARENTS TELEVISION AND MEDIA COUNCILCHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK - ORPHAN'S PROMISE — $292,014 · OtherCHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK - ORPHAN'S PROM…METHODIST SENIOR SERVICES — $45,000 · OtherMETHODIST SENIOR SERVICESMISSION FIRST INC — $42,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $40,000 · OtherBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Other+6 more — $65,000 · Other+6 moreWESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY — $600,000 · EducationWESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARYSUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $137,000 · Human ServicesSUNNYBROOK CHI…EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER MISSIS…HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesHOPE VILLAGE F…WORLD VISION INC — $175,000 · InternationalWORLD VIS…ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $80,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 · ReligionGODS NOT DEAD FOUNDATION — $10,000 · ReligionEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI — $20,000 · HealthTHE MCCLEAN FLETCHER CENTER INC — $10,000 · HealthCHESHIRE ABBEY — $5,000 · Animals
Other$814,014Education$600,000Human Services$262,000International$175,000Civil Rights$80,000Religion$30,000Health$30,000Animals$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY — $600,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $137,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMISSION FIRST INC — $42,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MCCLEAN FLETCHER CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESHIRE ABBEY — $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budget
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.

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.

Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender TrusteeMS19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Ergon Foundation Inc · Century Club Charities Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Feild Co-Operative Association · Walker Foundation · The Pruet Foundation · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · Elmer & Gladys Ferguson Charitable Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Noblitt 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Noblitt Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Noblitt Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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