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The Noel 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE TRIANG | $25,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $10,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC | $5,000 |
| COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF DURHAM | $2,000 |
| ELLERBEE CREEK | $1,000 |
| DIAPER TRAIN INC | $1,000 |
| CARY ACADEMY | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The Noel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)6× · 2018–2025 · $129k · revenue +45%
- CGCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +130%
NORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC6× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +78%
Funded once
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +0%- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -4%
- CCCARLETON COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Promote, coordinate, and develop youth soccer.
Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read and Feed and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds EL FUTURO INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GRASSROOTS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF N CENT NC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF DURHAM ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMOS HEALTH AND HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LATINX EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF LIFE & SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DIAPER TRAIN ↗
- Who funds Ellerbee Creek Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds Henderson Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds READ AND FEED ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke University · Duke Energy Foundation · The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation AKA THE BURT'S BEES FOUNDATION · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Goodnight Educational Foundation · Devonwood Foundation 009606-007
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 Noel 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.
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.
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