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Milton and Ida Newman Foundation at a glance

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Milton and Ida Newman 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.

$498k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.2MArts & Culture$1.1MHealth$236kInternational$198kHuman Services$76kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kFood & Nutrition$45kCommunity Improvement$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $128k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUBAVITCH OF BUCKS COUNTY$250,000
CENTRAL FUND FOR ISRAEL$100,000
WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM$30,000
IMPACT ISRAEL$27,500
Individual grant recipient$25,000
THE CHOP FOUNDATION$15,000
AFMDA$10,000
JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY$10,000
AJC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL$5,000
AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY$5,000
VFW$1,000
HELPUSADOPTORG$1,000
BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $1k → 14%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $25k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $10k → 7%HELPUSADOPTORG: $3k → 17%JFCS: $20k → 22%HELPUSADOPTORG: $2k → 17%HELPUSADOPTORG: $1k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $1k → 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

NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
MD
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 8 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

$3.5M
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+45%

Still filing today

50%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionHealthEducationReligionOther
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

  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    2× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +98%
  • II
    IMPACTISRAEL INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +45%
  • HI
    HELPUSADOPTORG INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +506%

Funded once

  • JE
    JEWISH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • Philabundance
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +0%
  • EH
    EINSTEIN HEALTH CARE NETWORK
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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.

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc
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7
The Bnai Jacob Foundation
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8
Jewish Food Society Inc

Jewish food society works to preserve and celebrate jewish culinary heritage from around the world in order to increase awareness and deepen connections to jewish life. jfs is committed to showcasing the diversity of the jewish experience,…

Arts & Culture
9
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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10
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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Boundless Israel Inc

The organization is a think-action tank partnering with community leaders to revitalize israel education and take bold collective action to combat jew-hatred.

Education
12
American Friends of Minyan Avreichim

Support religious jewish instituions in furthering torah study

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of the Old City Cheder in Jerusalem Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 38 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHOP FOUNDATION: $1,522,536 · OtherTHE CHOP FOUNDATIONLUBAVITCH OF BUCKS COUNTY: $1,070,000 · OtherLUBAVITCH OF BUCKS COUNTYJewish Federation of Philadelphia: $436,000 · OtherJewish Federation of PhiladelphiaTHE FUND FOR PENN MEDICINE: $200,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PENN MEDICINE+19 more: $187,500 · Other+19 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $200,000 · PhilanthropyCentral Fund of Israel: $150,000 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INC: $37,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 · InternationalJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $35,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · Human ServicesHELPUSADOPTORG INC: $6,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePhilabundance: $25,000 · Food & NutritionJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC: $12,000 · ReligionMOVING TRADITIONS: $1,000 · Religion
Other$3,416,036Philanthropy$200,000International$197,500Human Services$63,000Arts & Culture$35,000Food & Nutrition$35,000Religion$13,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $35,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPhilabundance: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetA MEANINGFUL PURPOSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHELPUSADOPTORG INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSIMON'S FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OLD CITY CHEDER IN JERUSALEM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD POETRY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Snider FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Snider FoundationPA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Snider Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Milton and Ida Newman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milton and Ida Newman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 Milton and Ida Newman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Milton and Ida 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 38 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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