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John & Florence Newman Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $458k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $550k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION FUND INC$100,000
SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION$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
BANDERA CANYONLANDS ALLIANCE$45,000
TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO$45,000
CITY EDUCATION PARTNERS$33,000
THE NONPROFIT COUNCIL$30,000
ARBORETUM SAN ANTONIO$30,000
UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY$25,000
FRIENDS OF HONDO CANYON$25,000
SAN ANTONIO BOOK FESTIVAL$25,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE NONPROFIT COUNCIL: $50k → 16%THE NONPROFIT COUNCIL: $30k → 16%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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 26 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
22

Total granted

$3.1M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+30%

Still filing today

65%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $383k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • SA
    San Antonio Report
    4× · 2021–2024 · $529k · revenue +4%
  • BP
    Brackenridge Park Conservancy
    4× · 2021–2024 · $327k · revenue +29%
  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • VC
    VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $320k
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
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
Greater Satx

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.

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2
San Antonio Medical Foundation

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.

Health
3
Bexar Land Trust Inc dba Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas

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.

Environment
4
San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc

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…

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5
Texas Tribune Inc

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…

Education
6
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
7
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Guadalupe River Park Conservancy

Guadalupe River Park Conservancy provides community leadership for the development and active use of Guadalupe River Park & Garden through education, advocacy and stewardship.

Environment
9
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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10
Center for Austin Independent Journalism

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Texas Water Foundation

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…

Environment
12
San Antonio Area Foundation

To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio River Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 61 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
18/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $405,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATIONVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $320,000 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUNDSAN ANTONIO ACADEMY: $250,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO ACADEMYTHE SARAH ROBERTS FRENCH HOME: $150,150 · OtherTHE SARAH ROBERTS FRENCH HOMEIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAN ANTONIO BOOK FESTIVAL: $112,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherINDEPENDENT PRODUCTION FUND INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE ANN AND JOHN NEWMAN FAMILY FUND: $90,000 · Other+31 more: $714,282 · Other+31 moreSan Antonio Report: $528,708 · Arts & CultureSan Antonio ReportNEWS REVENUE HUB INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureNEWS REVENUE HUB INCTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $135,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO+5 more: $52,700 · Arts & Culture+5 moreVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $210,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD C…San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc: $113,000 · PhilanthropySan Antoni…UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY: $80,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…THE HOLDSWORTH CENTER: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HOLDSW…+1 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyPlanned Parenthood South Texas: $347,000 · HealthBrackenridge Park Conservancy: $327,400 · Recreation & SportsBANDERA CANYONLANDS ALLIANCE: $51,000 · EnvironmentHill Country Alliance: $50,000 · EnvironmentSAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HONDO CANYON: $35,000 · EnvironmentArboretum San Antonio: $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE NONPROFIT COUNCIL: $80,000 · Human Services
Other$2,391,682Arts & Culture$916,408Philanthropy$434,000Health$347,000Recreation & Sports$327,400Environment$206,000Human Services$80,000

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 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 budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $210,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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
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.

San Antonio Area Foun…Pryor Myra Stafford C…The Brown Foundation …Charitable Foundation…The Charles Butt Foun…Betty Stieren Kelso F…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Jack and Doris Smothe…Hixon Family Foundati…80-20 FoundationNancy Smith Hurd Foun…John L Santikos Chari…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to John & Florence Newman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to John & Florence Newman Foundation 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 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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