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Craig Newmark 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.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$50MHuman Services$43MEducation$27MSocial Science$17MPublic Benefit$13MPublic Safety & Disaster$11MScience & Tech$9.9MCivil Rights$8.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$139M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMON SENSE MEDIA$2,000,000
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY$1,000,000
GLOBAL CYBER ALLIANCE INC$500,000
VETS IN TECH$500,000
ADVANCE DEMOCRACY$500,000
WOMEN IN CYBERSECURITY$250,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $10.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RE POWER FUND: $100k → 11%Invisible People: $50k → 14%Hollaback Inc: $300k → 20%RIGHT TO BE: $250k → 20%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $100k → 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $100k → 10%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $500k → 17%FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $125k → 10%Freedom of the Press Foundation: $125k → 10%VETS IN TECH: $500k → 10%VETS IN TECH: $500k → 10%VETS IN TECH: $500k → 10%VETSINTECH: $300k → 10%GIRLS WHO CODE: $400k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $200k → 17%VetsinTech: $250k → 10%Girls Who Code: $200k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $5k → 10%Student Veterans of America: $75k → 14%HOLLABACK INC: $250k → 17%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $5.0M → 17%Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America: $200k → 17%Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America: $125k → 17%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $100k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $500k → 17%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $100k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $23k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$136M · 58 repeat orgs$57M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
101

Total granted

$136M
$57M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+7%

Still filing today

91%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BW
    BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $23M · revenue +236% · 47% of their budget
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $16M · revenue +192%
  • CS
    COMMON SENSE MEDIA
    5× · 2020–2025 · $11M · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • CS
    CUNY SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
    one grant, 2018 · $20M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10M
  • TL
    THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5.0M · revenue -50%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
3
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.

International
4
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
5
Center for Democracy and Technology

Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.

Civil Rights
6
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.

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7
Open Technology Fund

The open technology fund aims to advance internet freedom globally by supporting the research, development, implementation, and maintenance of technologies that provide secure and uncensored access to the internet.

Arts & Culture
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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9
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
10
News Media Alliance

The news media alliance (nma) is a nonprofit organization representing nearly 2,000 news media organizations and their multi-media platform businesses in the us, canada and europe.

—
11
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
12
Electronic Privacy Information Center

Epic's mission is to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age for all people through advocacy, research, and litigation.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New America Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

144 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 144 of the 166 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
138/144
Grantees still filing
94/144
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CUNY SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM: $20,000,000 · OtherCUNY SCHOOL OF JOURNALISMIndividual grant recipient: $10,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGLOBAL CYBER ALLIANCE INC: $10,500,000 · OtherGLOBAL CYBER ALLIANCE INCATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $3,891,000 · OtherCIVIC HALL LABS INC: $5,500,000 · OtherCIVIC HALL LABS INCINSTITUTE FOR SECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY: $4,700,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR SECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY+93 more: $26,850,700 · Other+93 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $9,325,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $6,250,000 · EducationPresident and F…WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $2,750,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUND…THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $2,500,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIV…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $1,850,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENN…THE SHADOWSERVER FOUNDATION INC: $1,600,000 · EducationTHE SHADOWSERVE…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,000,000 · Education+17 more: $3,912,000 · Education+17 moreCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $11,000,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMON SENSE M…The Markup News Inc: $7,500,000 · Arts & CultureThe Markup New…PRO PUBLICA INC: $1,500,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA IN…PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $1,300,000 · Arts & CultureThe Forward Association Inc: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $950,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $950,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $1,875,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $23,200,000 · HealthBOB WOODRUFF…BLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $8,800,000 · Public BenefitBLUE STAR FA…CONSUMER REPORTS INC: $6,000,000 · Public BenefitCONSUMER REP…THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000,000 · Public BenefitTHE LEADERSH…DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,100,000 · Public Benefit+10 more: $1,403,500 · Public Benefit+10 moreTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $16,154,000 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN…+2 more: $700,000 · Social ScienceIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $6,025,000 · Human ServicesVETSINTECH: $2,050,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $1,323,082 · Human ServicesRIGHT TO BE INC: $800,000 · Human Services+6 more: $680,000 · Human Services
Other$81,441,700Education$29,187,000Arts & Culture$26,075,000Health$23,200,000Public Benefit$22,303,500Social Science$16,854,000Human Services$10,878,082

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $23,200,000 over 5y, 47% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $16,154,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $11,000,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetGLOBAL CYBER ALLIANCE INC: $10,500,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $9,325,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $8,800,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetThe Markup News Inc: $7,500,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $6,250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $6,025,000 over 6y, 63% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $6,000,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCIVIC HALL LABS INC: $5,500,000 over 2y, 82% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY: $4,700,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $3,891,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $2,750,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $2,500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVETSINTECH: $2,050,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC: $2,000,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $1,850,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE SHADOWSERVER FOUNDATION INC: $1,600,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF: $1,500,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $1,500,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $1,323,082 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $1,300,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,247,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,100,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc: $1,000,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $950,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $950,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $800,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRIGHT TO BE INC: $800,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetNew York University: $742,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $700,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Humane Technology: $700,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetTECHCONGRESS FOUNDATION: $550,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetFARESTART: $500,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $500,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFeeding America: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST PROJECT: $500,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAI FOR THE PEOPLE INC: $450,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetWomen In Cyber Security: $450,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Foundation to Promote…The William & Flora H…John D and Catherine …The Ford FoundationNew Venture FundJohn S and James L Kn…Silicon Valley Commun…Democracy Fund IncTides FoundationOmidyar Network Fund …Gates FoundationLuminate Foundation I…
Foundation to Promote Open SocietyNY43.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation to Promote Open Society · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ford Foundation · New Venture Fund · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Omidyar Network Fund Inc · Gates Foundation · Luminate Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Craig Newmark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Craig Newmark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 166 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home