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John & Florence Newman Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $458k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION FUND INC | $100,000 |
| THE ANN AND JOHN NEWMAN FAMILY FUND | $90,000 |
| THE SARAH ROBERTS FRENCH HOME | $75,150 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH TEXAS | $75,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO REPORT | $60,000 |
| HILL COUNTRY ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO | $45,000 |
| BANDERA CANYONLANDS ALLIANCE | $45,000 |
| CITY EDUCATION PARTNERS | $33,000 |
| THE NONPROFIT COUNCIL | $30,000 |
| ARBORETUM SAN ANTONIO | $30,000 |
| ST LUKES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOOK FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FUND | $25,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $80k) 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 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.
26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $383k 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
- SASan Antonio Report4× · 2021–2024 · $529k · revenue +4%
- BPBrackenridge Park Conservancy4× · 2021–2024 · $327k · revenue +29%
- TPTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- VCVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2020 · $320k
- SASAN ANTONIO ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $250k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $150k
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.
The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.
The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.
The mission of Bexar Land Trust (Green Spaces) is to sustain the natural environment and enhance urban spaces through land conservation, community engagement, and education.
The mission of the san antonio hispanic chamber of commerce is to advocate in building a better san antonio through the growth and prosperity of hispanic, small minority, women-owned businesses, and hispanic professional and trade…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…
Guadalupe River Park Conservancy provides community leadership for the development and active use of Guadalupe River Park & Garden through education, advocacy and stewardship.
To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…
Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…
To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio River Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Orion Research and Management Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 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. 38 of the 61 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 San Antonio Report ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood South Texas ↗
- Who funds Brackenridge Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds NEWS REVENUE HUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE SARAH ROBERTS FRENCH HOME ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NONPROFIT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ORION RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BANDERA CANYONLANDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds Hill Country Alliance ↗
- Who funds MONTE VISTA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BLOOM ↗
- Who funds INCARNATE WORD HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HONDO CANYON ↗
- Who funds Headwaters at Incarnate Word Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arboretum San Antonio ↗
- Who funds LANDA GARDENS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE HOLDSWORTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds The University of Texas Law School Foundation ↗
- Who funds BEAM FOUNDERS NETWORK ↗
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · The Brown Foundation Inc · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · The Charles Butt Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation · Hixon Family Foundation · 80-20 Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable 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 John & Florence Newman 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.
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