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NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC

NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,053,202 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH ($11,386,644). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$46M
Revenue FY2024
11
Funders on record
$12M
Grants received
$129M
Net assets
3/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%

Against its field

NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC's revenue fell 56% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve1.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,063 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($104M) Expenses 100 ($62M) Net assets 100 ($167M)2020 Revenue 54 ($56M) Expenses 90 ($56M) Net assets 86 ($144M)2021 Revenue 46 ($48M) Expenses 85 ($53M) Net assets 83 ($139M)2022 Revenue 43 ($45M) Expenses 79 ($50M) Net assets 76 ($127M)2023 Revenue 37 ($38M) Expenses 70 ($44M) Net assets 76 ($127M)2024 Revenue 44 ($46M) Expenses 73 ($46M) Net assets 77 ($129M)
201720202021202220232024
Revenue (44)Expenses (73)Net assets (77)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

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20
21
$5.1M
22
$6.0M
23
$209k
24
1.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $167k.

1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $267M from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC raised.

From the IRS filings of NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC.

94%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 2023 88%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

25% of NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 7 states in all.

IL
NV
OH
DC
OK
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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21
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23
Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $311 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.9M on record — $8.8M federal, $53k state.

Federal$8.8M
grants $8.8Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Science Foundation$6.9M
  • Department of Energy$1.0M
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration$600k
  • Department of Agriculture$290k
State$53k
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Top programs
  • OCAST Program Award Payments$53k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Oklahoma

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 8%Fundraising 3%

Governance

1
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 38 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC?
NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,053,202 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH ($11,386,644). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $12,053,202 in grants to NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC?
FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH is the largest funder on record, with $11,386,644 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing