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Jerome a and Estelle R Newman Assistance Fund Inc at a glance

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Jerome a and Estelle R Newman Assistance Fund Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$700k
Granted FY2026still arriving
13
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$319k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.2MArts & Culture$785kEducation$410kInternational$310kCivil Rights$145kReligion$90kHealth$57kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2026 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $319k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS$318,600
BENNINGTON COLLEGE$60,000
THE YARD INC$60,000
JUSTWORLD INTERNATIONAL INC$60,000
LIGHTHOUSE GUILD$60,000
PUBLIC THEATER$60,000
ROOTS OF REFORM JUDAISM$25,000
COLUMBIA COLLEGE$12,000
CHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION$12,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$12,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$12,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER$4,200
LONG ISLAND LENDING A HELPING HAND$4,200
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE YARD INC: $60k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $319k → 17%ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT: $15k → 7%JUSTWORLD INTERNATIONAL INC: $60k → 11%ANTIOCH COLLEGE: $50k → 9%ROOTS OF REFORM JUDAISM: $25k → 16%CHANGING WORLDS: $35k → 14%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $60k → 11%THE YARD INC: $60k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $281k → 17%JUSTWORLD INTERNATIONAL INC: $60k → 11%ANTIOCH COLLEGE: $50k → 9%ROOTS OF REFORM JUDAISM: $25k → 16%CHANGING WORLDS: $35k → 14%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $60k → 11%THE YARD INC: $50k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $244k → 17%JUSTWORLD INTERNATIONAL INC: $50k → 11%ROOTS OF REFORM JUDAISM: $20k → 16%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $50k → 11%THE YARD INC: $50k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $220k → 17%JUSTWORLD INTERNATIONAL INC: $50k → 11%ROOTS OF REFORM JUDAISM: $14k → 16%CHANGING WORLDS: $25k → 14%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $50k → 11%THE YARD INC: $50k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $191k → 17%JUSTWORLD INTERNATIONAL INC: $50k → 11%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $50k → 11%THE YARD INC: $50k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $153k → 17%JUSTWORLD INTERNATIONAL INC: $50k → 11%CHANGING WORLDS: $25k → 14%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $50k → 11%CHANGING WORLDS: $25k → 14%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $60k → 17%PUBLIC THEATER: $60k → 17%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $60k → 17%PUBLIC THEATER: $60k → 17%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $50k → 17%PUBLIC THEATER: $50k → 17%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $50k → 17%PUBLIC THEATER: $50k → 17%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $50k → 17%PUBLIC THEATER: $50k → 17%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $50k → 17%PUBLIC THEATER: $50k → 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

VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
MD
DC
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 17 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$2.3M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+5%

Still filing today

65%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BC
    BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
    6× · 2021–2026 · $320k · revenue +9%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    6× · 2021–2026 · $320k · revenue +52%
  • AC
    ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • HI
    HIAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -28%
  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +5%
  • FA
    FREEMONT ABBEY ARTS CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
6
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
7
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
8
Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities

The auschwitz institute for the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities is dedicated to building a world that prevents genocide. we aim to see every state effectively integrate within government the domestically developed function of…

International
9
Mesorah Heritage Foundation

The foundation's mission is to research, locate, translate, and create jewish religious, literary, biblical, and talmudic works for religious, scholarly and cultural purposes for the general public.

Arts & Culture
10
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
11
International Vaccine Institute

To discover, develop and deliver safe, effective and affordable vaccines for global public health. its vision is developing countries free of suffering from infectious disease.

International
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Long Island Lending a Helping Hand. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $1,407,100 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETT…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $64,000 · PhilanthropyBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $320,000 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEGE COR…JustWorld International Inc: $320,000 · EducationJustWorld Internationa…ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION: $100,000 · EducationANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPOR…NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $320,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEAR…THE YARD INC: $320,000 · Arts & CultureTHE YARD INCLIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $320,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE GUILDMICAHEL J FOX FOUNDATION: $72,000 · OtherMICAHEL J FOX FOUN…COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $62,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA COLLEGECHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION: $33,000 · OtherISLAND HEALTH PROJECT: $25,500 · Other+12 more: $106,800 · Other+12 moreCHANGING WORLDS: $145,000 · Civil RightsROOTS OF REFORM JUDAISM INC: $94,000 · ReligionInternational Rescue Committee INC: $30,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $10,000 · International
Philanthropy$1,471,100Education$740,000Arts & Culture$640,000Other$619,300Civil Rights$145,000Religion$94,000International$40,000

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $1,407,100 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $320,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $320,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJustWorld International Inc: $320,000 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetTHE YARD INC: $320,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetCHANGING WORLDS: $145,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetROOTS OF REFORM JUDAISM INC: $94,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $64,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Lending A Helping Hand: $18,900 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER: $14,700 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHIAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ↗
  • Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds JustWorld International Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE YARD INC ↗
  • Who funds CHANGING WORLDS ↗
  • Who funds ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ROOTS OF REFORM JUDAISM INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds Long Island Lending A Helping Hand ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Jerome a and Estelle R Newman Assistance Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerome a and Estelle R Newman Assistance Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • The Yard Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report 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, 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.
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Find your warmest path to Jerome a and Estelle R Newman Assistance Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 28 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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