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The Noonan Family Foundation at a glance

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The Noonan Family 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.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$141kArts & Culture$118kEducation$48kHealth$30kHuman Services$28kYouth Development$7kEnvironment$5kAnimals$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$38,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$942k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION$38,000
ROSIE'S HOUSE A MUSIC ACADEMY FOR CHILDREN$20,000
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 (FY19–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COPE FOUNDATION: $7k → 7%MHMR FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%AMERICA'S KIDS BELONG: $10k → 9%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

WA
MN
NY
PA
CO
AZ
KS
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$249k · 3 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$249k
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+64%

Still filing today

100%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • RH
    Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $141k · revenue +121%
  • ST
    SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $61k · revenue -27%
  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    2× · 2017–2019 · $48k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • FM
    FMDG MUSIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $24k
  • SO
    STEPS OF FAITH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +391%
  • MM
    MUSIC & MEMORY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $19k · revenue -94%
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
Heros Encore

Veteran support and mental wellness through music. Hero's Encore serves veterans and first responders through a structured program of guitar instruction, songwriting workshops, mindset development, and live performance.

Public Benefit
2
Bridges Through Music
Education
3
Song Rise Arts

Song Rise Arts is a nonprofit that provides trauma-informed spaces for underserved communities to find healing through creative practices. We nurture essential social and emotional skills and build resiliency by creating safe spaces for…

Arts & Culture
4
Bridging Voices

The mission of bridging voices is to provide a safe, welcoming, and accessible space for the full spectrum of queer, trans, and allied youth to experience empowerment and unity through music and community. we believe in building bridges,…

Arts & Culture
5
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc

The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…

Health
6
The Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music

The mission of the brooklyn conservatory of music is to transformlives and build community through the expressive, educational andtherapeutic powers of music.

Arts & Culture
7
Miami Music Project Inc

Miami music project uses music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively affecting their society through the study and performance of music. our vision is…

Arts & Culture
8
Musical Instruments N Kids Hands

Music can transform lives especially for kids growing up in difficult circumstances. Music Instruments N Kids Hands mission is to introduce students to science technology engineering arts and math STEAM through an interactive and digital…

Arts & Culture
9
Kurt Cobain Music Education Project
Arts & Culture
10
Finding Our Voices
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11
My Voice Music Inc

See schedule o. my voice music's mission is to amplify young voices and ignite self-discovery through music. our mantra is "write, record, release". the process of writing an original song, recording it in the studio and then releasing it…

Arts & Culture
12
Artists and Musicians in Recovery
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mhmr Visions Dba Mhmr Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Veterans Ecological Trades Collective. 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 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc: $140,850 · Housing & ShelterRosies House A Music Academy for Children…SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $60,700 · OtherSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATIONFMDG MUSIC SCHOOL: $23,500 · OtherFMDG MUSIC SCHOOLMUSIC & MEMORY INC: $18,500 · OtherMUSIC & MEMORY INCVeterans Ecological Trades Collective: $5,000 · OtherSA YOUTH: $7,000 · OtherSA YOUTH+2 more: $8,000 · Other+2 moreDONORSCHOOSEORG: $47,500 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEOR…STEPS OF FAITH FOUNDATION: $20,100 · HealthBanner Health Foundation: $10,000 · HealthAmericas Kids Belong: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOPE FOUNDATION INC: $7,250 · Human ServicesMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesRefugee Choir Project: $15,000 · Arts & CultureJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $7,250 · Philanthropy
Housing & Shelter$140,850Other$122,700Education$47,500Health$30,100Human Services$20,250Arts & Culture$15,000Philanthropy$7,250

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 budgetRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc: $140,850 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $60,700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $47,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPS OF FAITH FOUNDATION: $20,100 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetMUSIC & MEMORY INC: $18,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmericas Kids Belong: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOPE FOUNDATION INC: $7,250 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $7,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSA YOUTH: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVeterans Ecological Trades Collective: $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRUFF START RESCUE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Mightycause Charitabl…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Noonan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Noonan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 16 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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