Funding search · EIN 815328519 · Ardmore, OK

The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation

Name: The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

503
grants reported: $147.5M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

noble scholarship educational scholarships school oklahoma endowed family

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Operational support for Noble Research Institute, its own agricultural research arm
Evangelical Christian ministry, chiefly the Noble Ministry Fund
Ardmore and Carter County human services, clinics, shelters, food programs
Children's health facilities and pediatric hospital capital campaigns
Free-market and education-choice policy groups in DC and Oklahoma City
Sam Noble Scholarship and Noble Educational Fund awards to individual students

Typical grant

Median grant is $5,000 and the middle half runs $2,500 to $20,000, so most of the 503 grants are small community checks and named scholarships to individuals. The money is concentrated at the top: $36.5 million in operational support to Noble Research Institute LLC and $8.25 million to Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef dwarf everything else, with capital projects at $250,000 to $1.78 million forming the next tier. Ardmore-area nonprofits like Good Shepherd Community Clinic, the Ardmore YMCA, A Plus Reading and the Goddard Center show up repeatedly with similar amounts year over year.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“OPERATIONAL SUPPORT”
“GENERAL SUPPORT”
“GENERAL OPERATIONS”
“SCHOLARSHIPS”
“CAPITAL CAMPAIGN”

Positioning adjacent work

Tie work to agricultural or ranching research, the theme behind their largest recurring commitment to Noble Research Institute.
Ask $25,000 to $50,000 for program or operating costs unless you have a defined capital project.
Name Carter County or Ardmore beneficiaries explicitly; the Oklahoma City grants are the exception, not the pattern.
Frame health-science asks around applied clinical tools, as with Dean McGee Eye Institute's vision loss models at $50,000.

Worth knowing: This is a family foundation whose giving is deeply relationship-driven: it funds its own affiliated Noble Research Institute, carries named funds honoring family members like the Ed Noble Lobby at Heritage Foundation, and repeats the same Ardmore grantees annually. Roughly two thirds of recipients are in Oklahoma and a cold approach from outside the Ardmore orbit, or outside agriculture, Christian ministry, and conservative policy, has little precedent in the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Noble Research Institute Llc5 grants · $111.0M
Leading the Way With Dr Michael Youssef3 grants · $8.4M
Hillsdale College5 grants · $3.5M
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation1 grant · $3.5M
Heritage Foundation4 grants · $1.9M
The Children'S Center Inc Dba Bethany Children'S Health Center1 grant · $1.8M
Center of Family Love4 grants · $1.6M
Southern Oklahoma Ambulance Service2 grants · $1.5M
Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity1 grant · $1.5M
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum1 grant · $1.5M

Giving over time

$45.2M

2022

$48.4M

2023

$53.9M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 503 grants.

$40.5M
Noble Research Institute Llc · Ardmore, OK · 2022
Operational support
$36.5M
Noble Research Institute Llc · Ardmore, OK · 2024
Operational support
$34.0M
Noble Research Institute Llc · Ardmore, OK · 2023
Operational support
$8.3M
Leading the Way With Dr Michael Youssef · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Noble ministry fund
$3.5M
Hillsdale College · Hillsdale, MI · 2023
K-12 endowment & graduate school of classical education endowed scholarships
$3.5M
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
David r. Brown center for advanced human imaging
$1.8M
The Children'S Center Inc Dba Bethany Children'S Health Center · Bethany, TX · 2024
The landmark of hope expansion project
$1.5M
Southern Oklahoma Ambulance Service · Ardmore, OK · 2024
Ambulance facility project
$1.5M
Center of Family Love · Okarche, OK · 2023
Dr. David brown regenerative agricultural center
$1.5M
Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
Phase 1: cornerstone creek project
$1.5M
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022
Sam noble special events center
$1.0M
Shepherd Center · Atlanta, OK · 2024
Performance lab and ed noble smart tech hub
$750,000
Heritage Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Ed noble lobby
$750,000
Newview Oklahoma · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
Warehouse expansion-jobs for blind oklahomans
$700,000
Community Childrens Shelter and Family Service Center · Ardmore, OK · 2022
Capital campaign: building park street campus
$500,000
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs · Oklahoma City, OK · 2024
The generations project
$500,000
Ymca of Greater Oklahoma City · Oklahoma City, TX · 2024
Ymca camp classen: here for all. Here for good. Capital campaign
$400,000
Heritage Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
First principles, free enterprise, and education choice
$400,000
Heritage Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
Defending our first principles, free enterprise, and parental control of schools
$400,000
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
The generations project
$300,000
Heritage Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Fighting for first principles, free markets, and parental control of schools
$300,000
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022
The generations project
$250,000
Childrens Medical Center Foundation · Dallas, TX · 2024
Building the new dallas pediatric hospital campus
$250,000
St Anthony Hospital Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
A new st. Anthony hospital main entrance
$200,000
Ashley · Havre De Grace, MD · 2024
Birds of a feather treatment scholarship for pilots and airline personnel
$150,000
Botanical Research Institute of Texas · Fort Worth, TX · 2023
Family garden design development
$150,000
Integris Health Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
Behavioral health automated care program
$150,000
Oklahoma Zoological Society · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
Shore to sea at the oklahoma city zoo
$130,000
Community Youth Services of Southern Oklahoma · Ardmore, OK · 2024
Park street campus - debt reduction
$101,244
The More Foundation · Ardmore, GA · 2024
Pettitt fund
$100,000
Good Shepherd Community Clinic · Ardmore, OK · 2024
Operational support
$100,000
Gunnison Valley Health Foundation · Gunnison, CO · 2024
Seconds save lives
$100,000
Good Shepherd Community Clinic · Ardmore, OK · 2023
Operational support
$100,000
Good Shepherd Community Clinic · Ardmore, OK · 2022
Operational support
$100,000
Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022
Capital campaign: centered on impact
$98,600
Leading the Way With Dr Michael Youssef · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Awake america - phase 2
$90,176
The More Foundation · Ardmore, OK · 2023
Distribution from pettitt educational fund
$85,000
Ardmore Animal Care · Ardmore, OK · 2023
Medical fund
$77,887
The More Foundation · Ardmore, OK · 2022
2022 pettitt fund distribution
$75,000
Little Hill Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Alcoholics · Blairstown, NJ · 2024
Haley house - maintenance refresh
$75,000
Oklahoma State University Foundation · Stillwater, OK · 2024
Rancher's club: noble ranch portrait
$75,000
Gunnison Valley Health Foundation · Gunnison, CO · 2023
Seconds save lives
$75,000
Ashley · Havre De Grace, MD · 2022
Addiction treatment research
$75,000
Charles B Goddard Center for Visual and Performing Arts · Ardmore, OK · 2022
Restroom addition
$60,000
Capital Research Center · Washington, DC · 2024
General operations
$60,000
Southeastern Legal Foundation · Roswell, OK · 2024
General operating
$60,000
Young Mens Christian Association of Ardmore Oklahoma · Ardmore, OK · 2024
Operational support
$55,000
A Chance To Change Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2024
Operational support
$55,000
A Chance To Change Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
Operational support
$50,000
Center of Family Love · Okarche, OK · 2024
General operations funding
$50,000
Charles B Goddard Center for Visual and Performing Arts · Ardmore, OK · 2024
Operational support
$50,000
Dean McGee Eye Institute · Oklahoma City, OK · 2024
Enhanced technology for creation of vision loss models and retina cellular analysis
$50,000
Fields & Futures Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2024
Fields & futures operational support
$50,000
Gloria Ainsworth Child Care & Learning Center · Ardmore, OK · 2024
Operational support
$50,000
Leadership Institute · Arlington, VA · 2024
School board leaders program
$50,000
Oklahoma City University · Oklahoma City, OK · 2024
Physical therapy support fund at oklahoma city university
$50,000
Center of Family Love · Okarche, OK · 2023
Center of family love general operations
$50,000
Classically Formed Foundation · Tulsa, OK · 2023
Inaugural year of oklahoma's first charter school of classical education
$50,000
Dean McGee Eye Institute · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
Vivarium emergency backup equipment
$50,000
Fields & Futures Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
Perpetual field maintenance program
$50,000
Intercollegiate Studies Institute · Wilmington, DE · 2023
Isi core programs and oklahoma expansion project
$50,000
Southeastern Legal Foundation · Roswell, GA · 2023
General operating support
$50,000
Texas Christian University · Fort Worth, TX · 2023
Ranch management field studies and scholarships
$50,000
Valley Hope Association · Norton, KS · 2023
Building hope parker project
$50,000
Young Mens Christian Association of Ardmore Oklahoma · Ardmore, OK · 2023
Operational support
$50,000
A Chance To Change Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022
Operational support
$50,000
Center of Family Love · Okarche, OK · 2022
Operational support
$50,000
Dean McGee Eye Institute · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022
Ophthalmology microsurgical laboratory update
$50,000
Fields & Futures Foundation · Edmond, OK · 2022
Field maintenance program
$50,000
Intercollegiate Studies Institute · Wilmington, DE · 2022
Isi core programming & oklahoma expansion project
$50,000
Southeastern Legal Foundation · Roswell, GA · 2022
Operational support
$50,000
St Anthony Hospital Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022
Family medicine clinic & residency program expansion
$50,000
Young Mens Christian Association of Ardmore Oklahoma · Ardmore, OK · 2022
Operational support
$48,000
Leading the Way With Dr Michael Youssef · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Awake america campaign
$45,000
Capital Research Center · Washington, DC · 2023
General operations
$45,000
Gloria Ainsworth Child Care & Learning Center · Ardmore, OK · 2023
Operational support
$45,000
Gloria Ainsworth Child Care & Learning Center · Ardmore, OK · 2022
Operational support
$40,000
A Plus Reading · Ardmore, OK · 2024
Partial funding for reading therapists salaries
$40,000
Cities in Schools · Lone Grove, OK · 2024
Service learning program (mentoring)
$40,000
A Plus Reading · Ardmore, OK · 2023
Partial funding for reading therapists salaries
$40,000
Arbuckle Life Solutions · Ardmore, OK · 2023
Operational support
$40,000
Charles B Goddard Center for Visual and Performing Arts · Ardmore, OK · 2023
Operational support
$40,000
Charles B Goddard Center for Visual and Performing Arts · Ardmore, OK · 2023
Goddard center landscaping project
$40,000
Cities in Schools · Lone Grove, OK · 2023
Service learning program-mentoring
$40,000
Gunnison Council for the Arts · Gunnison, CO · 2023
Energy efficient window shades
$40,000
A Plus Reading · Ardmore, OK · 2022
Partial funding for reading therapists salaries
$40,000
Arbuckle Life Solutions · Ardmore, OK · 2022
Operational support
$40,000
Charles B Goddard Center for Visual and Performing Arts · Ardmore, OK · 2022
Operational support
$37,000
Southern Oklahoma Ambulance Services · Ardmore, OK · 2022
Repair roof
$35,000
Education and Employment Ministry · Oklahoma City, OK · 2024
Operational support
$35,000
Infant Crisis Services · Oklahoma City, OK · 2024
Infant crisis services: feeding oklahoma's future
$35,000
Education and Employment Ministry · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
Operational support
$35,000
Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
2024 faculty retention "bridge" stipend program
$35,000
Capital Research Center · Washington, DC · 2022
Operational support
$35,000
Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022
2023 faculty retention "bridge" stipend program
$35,000
Valley Hope Association · Norton, KS · 2022
Capital campaign, buildng hope: parker project
$30,000
Association of Professional Oklahoma Educators Foundation · Norman, OK · 2024
Operational support
$30,000
Food and Resource Center of South Central Oklahoma · Ardmore, OK · 2024
Operations support
$30,000
Hearts for Hearing Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2024
Listening start - teaching babies born deaf to listen and talk
$30,000
Association of Professional Oklahoma Educators Foundation · Norman, OK · 2023
Operational support

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