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The Ray and Tye Noorda 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.

$29M
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$72MHealth$23MEducation$19MHuman Services$11MEnvironment$6.4MFood & Nutrition$5.5MPhilanthropy$4.2MRecreation & Sports$2.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+44 grants · $28M
$350,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$102M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION$5,000,000
EVIDENCE ACTION$1,500,000
ID INSIGHT INC$1,025,000
MUSO$1,000,000
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL$1,000,000
LIVING GOODS$1,000,000
EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION$1,000,000
EDUCATE GIRLS$1,000,000
ONEGOAL$800,000
THE BOMA PROJECT$750,000
ASHOKA - ALL AMERICA$640,000
VISIONSPRING$625,000
SPLASH INTERNATIONAL$600,000
Individual grant recipient$600,000
NAMATI$600,000
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 (FY19–24, $9.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Prime Coalition: $1.0M → 8%FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT: $500k → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $5k → 7%FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT: $500k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $1.5M → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $1.0M → 10%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $250k → 10%ROOM TO GROW: $500k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $500k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $500k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $500k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $400k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $400k → 17%THE STRAIGHTER WAY FOUNDATION: $225k → 8%THE STRAIGHTER WAY FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%THE STRAIGHTER WAY FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%THE STRAIGHTER WAY FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%UPSCHALE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $32k → 8%UPSCHALE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $24k → 8%UPSCHALE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $16k → 8%UPSCHALE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICES: $200k → 8%UTAH PET PARTNERS: $3k → 8%THERAPY ANIMALS OF UTAH: $2k → 8%UTAH PET PARTNERS: $1k → 8%ENCIRCLE FAMILY AND YOUTH RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $5k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $84k → 8%UTAH PET PARTNERS: $600 → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $27k → 8%ROAD HOME: $27k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $14k → 8%ROAD HOME: $12k → 8%ROAD HOME: $6k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $6k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $3k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $200k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $200k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $20k → 8%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$156M · 108 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

108 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
29

Total granted

$156M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+30%

Still filing today

61%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TA
    The Against Malaria Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · $14M · revenue +29%
  • HK
    HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +36%
  • OA
    ONE ACRE FUND
    4× · 2019–2022 · $4.5M · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • LH
    LDS HUMANITARIAN FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $3.4M
  • PC
    PRIME COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +32%
  • US
    UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
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
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
2
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
3
Upaya Social Ventures

Upaya Social Ventures' mission is to create dignified jobs for people living in extreme poverty by building scalable businesses with investment and consulting support.

International
4
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
5
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
6
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
7
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
8
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
9
Well Aware Inc

Well Aware's mission is to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to water scarcity and contamination in East Africa.

International
10
Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health
11
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
12
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Wasatch Mental Health Foundation. 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

92 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. 92 of the 147 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
69/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $8,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $6,200,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITYEDUCATE GIRLS: $5,133,333 · OtherEDUCATE GIRLSREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $4,358,910 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIALDS HUMANITARIAN FUND: $3,392,006 · OtherMYAGRO FARMS: $2,933,333 · OtherPROXIMITY DESIGNS: $2,916,666 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,816,666 · Other+75 more: $43,096,205 · Other+75 moreHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $6,500,000 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONALONE ACRE FUND: $4,550,000 · InternationalONE ACRE FUNDLIVING GOODS: $4,375,000 · InternationalLIVING GOODSMUSO INC: $4,223,333 · InternationalMUSO INCTHE BOMA PROJECT INC: $3,150,000 · InternationalTHE BOMA PROJECT INCID INSIGHT INC: $2,516,666 · InternationalID INSIGHT INCSANERGY INC: $2,400,000 · InternationalSANERGY INCEducate: $2,166,666 · InternationalROOT CAPITAL INC: $1,650,000 · InternationalVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $1,583,333 · InternationalLwala Community Alliance: $1,520,000 · InternationalEVIDENCE ACTION: $1,500,000 · InternationalSPARK MICROGRANTS INC: $1,400,000 · International+6 more: $3,739,166 · International+6 moreThe Against Malaria Foundation: $14,333,333 · HealthThe Against Malar…MEDIC MOBILE INC: $3,300,000 · HealthMEDIC MOBILE INCIntegrate Health Inc: $2,041,666 · HealthIntegrate Health …THE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC: $1,439,000 · HealthTHE DR DALE B HUL…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,205,000 · Health+10 more: $3,645,001 · Health+10 moreROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $2,800,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $2,500,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $2,250,000 · Human ServicesPRIME COALITION INC: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesTHE STRAIGHTER WAY FOUNATION: $575,000 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $400,000 · Human Services+10 more: $750,700 · Human ServicesVISIONSPRING INC: $3,750,000 · PhilanthropySalt Lake Education Foundation: $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyHEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM: $1,750,000 · EnvironmentUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $1,566,666 · EnvironmentSPLASH INTERNATIONAL: $600,000 · EnvironmentCERES INC: $500,000 · Environment+5 more: $346,000 · EnvironmentONEGOAL: $3,600,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $350,000 · Youth Development
Other$78,847,119International$41,274,164Health$25,964,000Human Services$11,275,700Philanthropy$4,950,000Environment$4,762,666Youth Development$3,950,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $14,333,333 over 6y, 14% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $6,500,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $4,550,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLIVING GOODS: $4,375,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetMUSO INC: $4,223,333 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetVISIONSPRING INC: $3,750,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetONEGOAL: $3,600,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetMEDIC MOBILE INC: $3,300,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetTHE BOMA PROJECT INC: $3,150,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetMYAGRO FARMS: $2,933,333 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $2,800,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetID INSIGHT INC: $2,516,666 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $2,500,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetSANERGY INC: $2,400,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $2,250,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetEducate: $2,166,666 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetIntegrate Health Inc: $2,041,666 over 5y, 12% of budgetUBONGO INTERNATIONAL: $1,750,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetHEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM: $1,750,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetROOT CAPITAL INC: $1,650,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $1,583,333 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $1,566,666 over 6y, 24% of budgetLwala Community Alliance: $1,520,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetEVIDENCE ACTION: $1,500,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC: $1,439,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetSPARK MICROGRANTS INC: $1,400,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $1,250,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $1,250,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,205,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation: $1,200,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetNAMATI INC: $1,200,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetEqualize Health Formerly D-Rev: $1,100,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetPRIME COALITION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUTAH REGIONAL HOUSING CORPORATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetBUILDING TOMORROW INC: $912,500 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetIMAGINE WORLDWIDE: $900,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY: $805,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS INC: $800,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetPIVOT WORKS INC: $800,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetEARTHENABLE INC: $766,666 over 3y, 11% of budgetBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $750,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $700,001 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $700,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPLASH INTERNATIONAL: $600,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetFRIENDS FOR SIGHT: $577,000 over 6y, 34% of budgetTHE STRAIGHTER WAY FOUNATION: $575,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 4y, 4.1% 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.

  • Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
  • Who funds LIVING GOODS ↗
  • Who funds MUSO INC ↗
  • Who funds VISIONSPRING INC ↗
  • Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
  • Who funds MEDIC MOBILE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOMA PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MYAGRO FARMS ↗
  • Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ID INSIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds SANERGY INC ↗
  • Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
  • Who funds Educate ↗
  • Who funds Integrate Health Inc ↗
  • Who funds UBONGO INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM ↗
  • Who funds ROOT CAPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
  • Who funds UTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Lwala Community Alliance ↗
  • Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds THE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPARK MICROGRANTS INC ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…Mulago FoundationGeorge S and Dolores …Larry H Miller and Ga…The Community Foundat…Dovetail Impact Found…Rippleworks IncIhc Health Services I…David Kelby Johnson M…Lawrence & Janet Dee …The Miner FoundationC Scott & Dorothy E W…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT50.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Mulago Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · Rippleworks Inc · Ihc Health Services Inc · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Miner Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable 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 Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Root Capital Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Ray and Tye Noorda 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 147 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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