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New America Foundation

NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION is dedicated to renewing america by continuing the quest to realize our nation's highest ideals, honestly confronting the challenges caused by rapid technological and social change, and seizing the opportunities those changes create.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$9.7MEducation$3.6MCommunity Improvement$2.6MHuman Services$852kPhilanthropy$642kYouth Development$625kPublic Benefit$380kHealth$208kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $1,031,582, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,036,649 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,005,067 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $443k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $589k
$30,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$81M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL INDIANA CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP INC$175,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$105,845
ALEXANDRIA LIBRARY$103,237
HORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE$100,000
CAREERWISE COLORADO$55,000
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES$50,000
COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$35,000
MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE DISTRICT$30,000
FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE$30,000
CHARLES STEWART MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE$30,000
QUINSIGAMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE$30,000
NGA CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES$30,000
LINN-BENTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PARTNERSHIPS IN EQUITY (NAPE) EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $125k → 6%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PARNERSHIPS IN EQUITY (NAPE) EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $150k → 9%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $150k → 11%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PARNERSHIPS IN EQUITY (NAPE) EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%YMCA EAST BAY: $100k → 10%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $150k → 11%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PARNERSHIPS IN EQUITY (NAPE) EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $125k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $125k → 11%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

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
TX
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 38 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
43

Total granted

$13M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+41%

Still filing today

63%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $348k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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

  • CC
    CAREERWISE COLORADO
    7× · 2018–2024 · $905k · revenue +27%
  • HE
    HORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $850k · revenue +28%
  • JF
    JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $580k · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • TF
    TECHCONGRESS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.2M · revenue +85% · 50% of their budget
  • GB
    GLOBAL BLOCKCHAIN BUSINESS COUNCIL - USA
    one grant, 2018 · $641k
  • MO
    MOONSHOTS & OTHER ADVENTURES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
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
Business - Higher Education Forum

The business-higher education forum is a national network that connects corporate and college leaders to identify and build the talent solutions that address priority talent needs for employers and the american economy. corporate…

Education
2
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc

To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.

Civil Rights
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
9
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.

Education
10
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
11
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Century Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fp Interrupted 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

53 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. 53 of the 96 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
37/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $708,600 · OtherTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGENATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: $680,000 · OtherNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER F…North Carolina Community College System: $650,000 · OtherNorth Carolina Community College SystemEDUCATION STRATEGY GROUP LLC: $500,000 · OtherEDUCATION STRATEGY GROUP LLCNATIONAL CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $383,250 · OtherNATIONAL CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOU…JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $350,000 · OtherCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation: $339,288 · OtherMOONSHOTS & OTHER ADVENTURES INC: $250,000 · Other+47 more: $2,769,238 · Other+47 moreCENTRAL INDIANA CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,925,000 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL INDIANA CORPORATE P…TECHCONGRESS FOUNDATION: $1,243,591 · Community ImprovementTECHCONGRESS FOUNDATIONGLOBAL BLOCKCHAIN BUSINESS COUNCIL - USA: $641,149 · Community ImprovementGLOBAL BLOCKCHAIN BUSINESS …NONPROFIT FINANCE FUND: $350,000 · Community ImprovementNONPROFIT FINANCE FUNDHUMANS FIRST DETROIT: $220,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $275,000 · Community Improvement+3 moreCAREERWISE COLORADO: $905,000 · EducationCAREERWISE COLORADOHORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $850,000 · EducationHORIZON EDUCATION ALLIA…MONTANA HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENT ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $519,657 · EducationMONTANA HIGHER EDUCATIO…Birmingham Promise Inc: $450,000 · EducationBirmingham Promise IncFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $349,932 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORN…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $188,739 · EducationFUTURE FOCUSED EDUCATION: $187,000 · EducationONE MILLION DEGREES: $185,712 · Education+10 more: $366,169 · Education+10 morePROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $550,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT F…TIDES CENTER: $451,562 · Human ServicesTIDES CEN…National Alliance for Partnerships In Equity Education Foundation Inc: $375,000 · Human ServicesNational …American Jobs for Americas Youth Montana: $150,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …Young Men's Christian Association of the East Bay: $100,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men…JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $580,000 · EmploymentWORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SEATTLE-KI: $275,000 · EmploymentNATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS: $50,000 · Employment+1 more: $25,000 · EmploymentCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $550,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $241,786 · PhilanthropyCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Civil RightsFP INTERRUPTED INC: $52,000 · Civil Rights
Other$6,630,376Community Improvement$4,654,740Education$4,002,209Human Services$1,626,562Employment$930,000Philanthropy$921,786Civil Rights$202,000

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 budgetCENTRAL INDIANA CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,925,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetTECHCONGRESS FOUNDATION: $1,243,591 over 1y, 50% of budgetCAREERWISE COLORADO: $905,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetHORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $850,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: $680,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $580,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $550,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $550,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENT ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $519,657 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $451,562 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBirmingham Promise Inc: $450,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetNATIONAL CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $383,250 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetNational Alliance for Partnerships In Equity Education Foundation Inc: $375,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetNONPROFIT FINANCE FUND: $350,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $349,932 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation: $339,288 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetWORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SEATTLE-KI: $275,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $241,786 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANS FIRST DETROIT: $220,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $188,739 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFUTURE FOCUSED EDUCATION: $187,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES: $185,712 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Jobs for Americas Youth Montana: $150,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $125,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $105,845 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP: $100,575 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the East Bay: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC: $67,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Indianapolis: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFP INTERRUPTED INC: $52,000 over 2y, 90% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $51,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR EDUCATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $45,616 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST-WEST MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFletcher Technical Community College Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMercy Corps: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndianapolis Private Industry Council: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Jobs for the Future I…American Association …Gates FoundationLumina Foundation for…Achieving the Dream I…Annie E Casey Foundat…Rockefeller Philanthr…The Aspen Institute I…New Venture FundI Car Education Found…Walton Family Foundat…WK Kellogg Foundation
Jobs for the Future IncMA41× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jobs for the Future Inc · American Association of Community Colleges · Gates Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Achieving the Dream Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Aspen Institute Inc · New Venture Fund · I Car Education Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg 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 New America Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New America Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report 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.

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 96 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 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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