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The Noblitt Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MISSION FIRST$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL MS$20,000
CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK - ORPHAN'S PROMISE$15,014
CANOPY CHILDREN'S SOLUTIONS$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mcclean Fletcher Center Inc; 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 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. 14 of the 23 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

Van Devender Family F…Ergon Foundation IncCentury Club Charitie…Community Foundation …Feild Co-Operative As…Walker FoundationThe Pruet FoundationSam E & Burnice C Wit…Elmer & Gladys Fergus…Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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