· Private foundation
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k90 grants · $334k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $701k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+10 grants · $51M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC | $36,500,000 |
| LEADING THE WAY WITH DR MICHAEL YOUSSEF INC | $8,250,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA BETHANY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER | $1,780,000 |
| SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC | $1,500,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER INC | $1,000,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC | $500,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY | $500,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ASHLEY INC | $200,000 |
| COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA | $130,000 |
| THE MORE FOUNDATION | $101,244 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CLINIC INC | $100,000 |
| GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% 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.
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.
267 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2024, 165 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M 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
- SHSOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE4× · 2018–2021 · $7.0M · revenue +9% · 38% of their budget
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +9%- NCNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM2× · 2021–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +21%
Funded once
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundationone grant, 2023 · $3.5M · revenue +20%- COCENTRAL OKLAHOMA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCone grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue +14%
- MHMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITYone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -74%
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.
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True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Gunnison Council for the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 85% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
145 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. 145 of the 403 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC ↗
- Who funds SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Center of Family Love ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OKLAHOMA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CLINICINC ↗
- Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds CB GODDARD CENTER FOR VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE MORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ARDMORE OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ST ANTHONY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A CHANCE TO CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLORIA AINSWORTH CHILD CARE & LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITY ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ARBUCKLE LIFE SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CITIES IN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds A READING INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
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: Noble Research Institute LLC · The Merrick Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc · American Fidelity Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Charles B Goddard Foundation Trust · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · McCrory Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation
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 Samuel Roberts Noble 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Remerge Inc — 7% of income from government
- Good Shepherd Community Clinicinc — 5% of income from government
- Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers — 2% of income from government
- Pivot Inc — 2% of income from government
- Dean Mcgee Eye Institute — 1% of income from government
- Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
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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