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The Noom 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.

$812k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$642kRecreation & Sports$547kHealth$241kPublic Benefit$97kArts & Culture$65kInternational$55kScience & Tech$50kEducation$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$12,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND ROWING FOUNDATION$500,000
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$100,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$50,000
AMERICAN RIVERS$25,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$20,000
THE SCULPTURE CENTER$15,000
STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT$15,000
SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY$15,000
OHIO VOICE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$12,500
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$12,500
THE GROWHAUS$7,500
BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS$7,500
BIKE CLEVELAND$5,000
COLORADO OPEN LANDS$4,000
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 (FY19–20, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INSTITUTO LAB: $2k → 11%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $1k → 8%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN & CIRCLE HEALTH SERVICES: $10k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 17%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

NH
WA
ID
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 25 repeat orgs$700k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
34

Total granted

$1.1M
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+24%

Still filing today

72%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $539k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    6× · 2018–2025 · $273k · revenue +119%
  • SL
    SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $115k · revenue +23%
  • RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY
    4× · 2018–2024 · $96k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • GI
    GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue 0%
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
4
The Democracy Collaborative Foundation Inc

See schedule othe democracy collaborative was established in 2000 to advance understanding of democracy for the 21st century and to promote emerging strategies and innovations in community development that enhance democratic life. in…

Education
5
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
6
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
7
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
8
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
9
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
12
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is Instituto Lab. 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

56 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. 56 of the 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
37/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND ROWING FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherCLEVELAND ROWING FOUNDATIONNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESSIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL HEALTH: $45,000 · OtherBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $40,000 · Other+37 more: $258,250 · Other+37 moreTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $272,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $115,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETYRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $96,000 · EnvironmentRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCYAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $52,500 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INC+8 more: $35,000 · Environment+8 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $50,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $25,000 · EducationINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $24,000 · Education+2 more: $3,500 · EducationRECOVERY RESOURCES: $80,000 · HealthTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $4,000 · HealthMAROON ARTS GROUP: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SCULPTURE CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO VOICE: $45,000 · Public BenefitSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $15,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $3,000 · Public BenefitCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $35,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$993,250Environment$571,000Education$102,500Health$84,000Arts & Culture$65,000Public Benefit$63,000Philanthropy$58,500

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 budgetCLEVELAND ROWING FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $272,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $115,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $96,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRECOVERY RESOURCES: $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $52,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAROON ARTS GROUP: $50,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetOHIO VOICE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $40,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $24,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE GROWHAUS: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIKE CLEVELAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEYSTONE PROGRESS EDUCATION FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBICYCLE COLORADO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUS COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDINE CITIZENS AGAINST RUINING OUR ENVIRONMENT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAMIR RICE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Cleveland Foundat…The George Gund Found…The Char and Chuck Fo…The Lozick Family Fou…The Colorado Health F…Tides FoundationCommunity Shares of C…Higley Fund of the Cl…Dominion Energy Chari…The Reinberger Founda…The Denver FoundationJewish Federation of …
The Cleveland FoundationOH29.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Tides Foundation · Community Shares of Colorado Inc · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 70 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home