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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 25
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$29M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations John & Florence Newman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving31$1.0M35%
FY202325$1.0M36%
FY202223$994k43%
FY202119$515k47%
FY202020$921kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MEnvironment$650kEducation$587kHealth$523kAnimals$225kCommunity Improvement$105kYouth Development$56kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of John & Florence Newman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Antonio Report$528,708412%
Planned Parenthood South Texas$347,00051%
Brackenridge Park Conservancy$327,40049%
News Revenue Hub Inc$200,00023%
The Sarah Roberts French Home$150,15042%
Texas Public Radio$135,00051%
San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc$113,00042%
Independent Production Fund Inc$100,000142%
United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County$80,00050%
The Nonprofit Council$80,00028%
St Lukes Episcopal School of San$75,0003n/a
Orion Research and Management Services$65,000432%
Bandera Canyonlands Alliance$51,0002n/a
Hill Country Alliance$50,00013%
Boys & Girls Club of San Antonio$50,00020%
Monte Vista Historical Association$47,000320%
Project Bloom$40,000220%
San Antonio River Foundation$40,00034%
Incarnate Word High School$36,00010%
Friends of Hondo Canyon$35,0002n/a
Headwaters at Incarnate Word Inc$35,00015%
San Antonio Area Foundation$33,0001n/a
San Antonio Public Library Foundation$30,00014%
Arboretum San Antonio$30,00012%
Beam Founders Network$25,00015%
The Holdsworth Center$25,00010%
Landa Gardens Conservancy$25,00034%
The University of Texas Law School Foundation$25,00010%
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc$15,00011%
Interfaith Welcome Coalition$10,00012%
San Antonio Pets Alive Inc$10,00010%
Public Health Watch Inc$10,00011%
McNay Art Museum$9,20010%
Young Life$6,00010%
The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation$5,00010%
Texas Biomedical Forum$5,00010%
Conjunto Heritage Taller Inc$2,00012%
San Anto Cultural Arts$1,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

John & Florence Newman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Antonio Report: $528,708 over 4y, 12% of budgetPlanned Parenthood South Texas: $347,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBrackenridge Park Conservancy: $327,400 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetNews Revenue Hub Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetThe Sarah Roberts French Home: $150,150 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTexas Public Radio: $135,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc: $113,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetIndependent Production Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetUnited Way of San Antonio and Bexar County: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Nonprofit Council: $80,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetOrion Research and Management Services: $65,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetHill Country Alliance: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of San Antonio: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMonte Vista Historical Association: $47,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetProject Bloom: $40,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetSan Antonio River Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetIncarnate Word High School: $36,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHeadwaters at Incarnate Word Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSan Antonio Public Library Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetArboretum San Antonio: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBeam Founders Network: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetThe Holdsworth Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLanda Gardens Conservancy: $25,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInterfaith Welcome Coalition: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSan Antonio Pets Alive Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPublic Health Watch Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMcNay Art Museum: $9,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Life: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Biomedical Forum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetConjunto Heritage Taller Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSan Anto Cultural Arts: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX40.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About John & Florence Newman Foundation

How much does John & Florence Newman Foundation give?
John & Florence Newman Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $1,031,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does John & Florence Newman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Philanthropy (24%), Environment (14%).
Who are John & Florence Newman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: San Antonio Report ($529k), Planned Parenthood South Texas ($347k), Brackenridge Park Conservancy ($327k).
Does John & Florence Newman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John & Florence Newman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as John & Florence Newman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100, The Brown Foundation Inc.
Where is John & Florence Newman Foundation based?
John & Florence Newman Foundation is based in TX.

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 61 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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