· Private foundation
Alex W and Sue a Newton 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESTORATION ACADEMY | $14,000 |
| JESSIE'S PLACE | $10,000 |
| JIMMIE HALE MISSION | $10,000 |
| ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| STILLMAN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK | $5,000 |
| PARKINSON'S ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION | $5,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN | $3,500 |
| ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $3,000 |
| URBAN YOUNG LIFE BIRMINGHAM | $3,000 |
| IPC FRESH AIR FARMSTAIR PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| CAMP SEALE HARRIS | $2,500 |
| FOUNDATIONS OF EARLY LEARNING & FAMILY CENTER | $2,500 |
| OPERA BIRMINGHAM | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- SCStillman College8× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +77%
- TRTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY3× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +78%
- PAPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC2× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +253%
Funded once
- EHETHANS HEART BAGS4BLESSINGSone grant, 2022 · $5k
- AAALS ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA CHAPTERone grant, 2022 · $5k
- YYMCAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +42%
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.
Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.
To glorify god by providing a quality, christ-centered education which challenges students and teachers to maximize their potential so that graduates are prepared to further their education while becoming productive christian citizens.
The college's mission is to train christians to serve god and his church.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
Selma university's mission is to prepare men and women for christian ministry and christian living in the modern world based on the example of jesus christ.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
Provide public classical and pops musical performances throughout alabama featuring diverse selections of musical programing and provide organized musical education programs focused
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Home for Children and the most unlike its peers is The Restoration Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 21 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
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 Stillman College ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Service Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
- Who funds OPERA BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA ↗
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: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Protective Life Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · Holle Family Foundation · Dunn-French 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 Alex W and Sue a Newton 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.
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.