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The Thomas E 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.

$392k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$186k
Largest
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Recreation & Sports$668kArts & Culture$301kHealth$249kReligion$215kEducation$147kAnimals$102kEnvironment$86kPublic Benefit$81kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $296k
$1,037
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GT FOUNDATION$186,000
CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA$60,000
ST WILLIAM CATHOLIC CHURCH$50,100
JACKSONVILLE ZOO$25,010
FREDERICA ACADEMY$14,000
BENS$10,182
WOLFSON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
ST SIMONS LAND TRUST$5,000
UVA FUND$3,000
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH$3,000
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$3,000
COASTAL GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,520
ANDEE'S ARMY$2,500
ST ANNE'S BELFIELD$2,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MUST MINISTRIES: $100 → 6%SAFE HARBOR CENTER: $11k → 14%BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE: $5k → 13%BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE: $2k → 13%BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE: $1k → 13%BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE: $1k → 13%BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE: $1k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
WA
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
CA
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 48 repeat orgs$640k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
91

Total granted

$2.4M
$630k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+23%

Still filing today

48%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AH
    ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $234k · revenue +175%
  • JZ
    JACKSONVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +5%
  • CR
    CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $45k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • GT
    GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +179%
  • GA
    GT ALEXANDER THARPE FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $138k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
4
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
8
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
9
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education
10
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

11
The Grady Health Foundation Inc

The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…

Philanthropy
12
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is White Oak Conservation Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Independent K-12 SchoolsChristian Youth CampsLocal History MuseumsMilitary Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr14%28%20–35yr9%19%35–55yr13%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr9%5%35–55yr13%72%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
19%
10,947/58,239

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.

04the grantee network

55 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 154 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
34/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GT FOUNDATION — $509,500 · OtherGT FOUNDATIONGT ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION — $426,500 · OtherGT ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONGTAA — $190,000 · OtherGTAAGT ALEXANDER THARPE FUND — $137,500 · OtherGT ALEXANDER THARPE FUNDGT FUND — $123,150 · OtherGT FUNDCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherHOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH — $90,000 · OtherST WILLIAM CATHOLIC CHURCH — $80,100 · Other+108 more — $509,729 · Other+108 moreGEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $200,000 · EducationGEORGIA TEC…GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · EducationGEORGIA TEC…THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC — $30,250 · EducationTHE LOVETT …FREDERICA ACADEMY INC — $24,500 · EducationFREDERICA A…+7 more — $23,350 · Education+7 moreATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $233,839 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HI…ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W W…Coastal Georgia Historical Society — $18,060 · Arts & CultureCoastal Ge…+3 more — $500 · Arts & CultureCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC — $45,000 · EnvironmentST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentNORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC — $15,200 · EnvironmentJACKSONVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $45,010 · AnimalsWHITE OAK CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $5,000 · Animals+3 more — $1,500 · AnimalsCAMP TWIN LAKES INC — $28,000 · Recreation & SportsAgape Community Center — $1,100 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsANDEE'S ARMY — $15,932 · HealthGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,100 · Health+5 more — $1,320 · Health
Other$2,266,479Education$318,100Arts & Culture$282,399Environment$80,200Animals$56,510Recreation & Sports$30,100Health$26,352

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $233,839 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJACKSONVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $45,010 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSoutheast Georgia Health System Foundation Inc — $43,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC — $30,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC — $28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFREDERICA ACADEMY INC — $24,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCoastal Georgia Historical Society — $18,060 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $16,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetANDEE'S ARMY — $15,932 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC — $15,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Harbor Center Inc — $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERT'S BIG ADVENTURE INC — $9,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc — $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC — $5,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE OAK CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInspire Brands Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNSORO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgape Community Center — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGSGA FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREMERGE INC — $603 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTANNER MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHRJ CHARITIES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSwim Across America Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Security for America Inc — $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOOF GANG RESCUE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALBANY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds JACKSONVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC
  • Who funds Southeast Georgia Health System Foundation Inc
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
  • Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC
  • Who funds FREDERICA ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds ST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds Coastal Georgia Historical Society
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ANDEE'S ARMY
  • Who funds NORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds Safe Harbor Center Inc
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION

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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA22.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Julia Terrill Thomas Foundation Inc · The Nunnally Foundation Inc (Glynn County) · The Kelin Foundation · Davis Love III Foundation · Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc

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 Thomas E Noonan Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • North Florida Land Trust Inc81% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology35% of income from government
  • Museum of Science0% of income from government
  • Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 154 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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