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New Challenge 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.

$8k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
8 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$282k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations New Challenge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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 arriving6$7k83%
FY20238$8k25%
FY202214$14k29%
FY202115$11k33%
FY202018$11k50%
FY201920$29k70%
FY201822$25k73%
FY201716$21kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$50kHuman Services$37kFood & Nutrition$14kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$3kReligion$2kInternational$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
IN
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Operation Homefront Inc$16,00040%
Caterinas Club$14,30070%
Marys Kitchen$10,90071%
Chaffey Community College District$2,5001n/a
California State University San Marcos Corporation$1,50010%
West Coast University$1,5001n/a
Grand Canyon University$1,50010%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$1,3507n/a
Valley Children's Hospital$1,10030%
Utah Food Bank$1,10030%
Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of New Challenge Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Operation Homefront Inc$16,00040%
Caterinas Club$14,30070%
Marys Kitchen$10,90071%
Chaffey Community College District$2,5001n/a
California State University San Marcos Corporation$1,50010%
West Coast University$1,5001n/a
Grand Canyon University$1,50010%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$1,3507n/a
Valley Children's Hospital$1,10030%
Utah Food Bank$1,10030%
Coast Community College District$1,0001n/a
Direct Relief$1,0001n/a
Jessie Rees Foundation$1,00010%
University of San Francisco$1,00010%
University of la Verne$1,00010%
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance$85030%
Casa de Los Ninos$85020%
Ryan House$80020%
Route91strong$80010%
Greater Tucson Fire Foundation$80020%
Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank$60010%
CaringBridge$50010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$50020%
Nick and Kelly Childrens Heart Fund$5001n/a
Breast Cancer Fundraiser$50010%
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation$50010%
San Diego Rescue Mission Inc$45020%
Calvary Chapel Northgrove$4002n/a
For Goodness Cakes$3001n/a
Riverside Humane Society Pet Adoption Center$25010%
Sbcs Corporation$20010%
Little League Baseball Inc 4056211 Fountain Valley Little League$2001n/a
La Casa de las Madres$20010%
Viking Foundation$10010%
Pedal the Cause$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget New Challenge Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOperation Homefront Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCaterinas Club: $14,300 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMarys Kitchen: $10,900 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCalifornia State University San Marcos Corporation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley Children's Hospital: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Food Bank: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of la Verne: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCasa de Los Ninos: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRyan House: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoute91strong: $800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Tucson Fire Foundation: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBreast Cancer Fundraiser: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Rescue Mission Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRiverside Humane Society Pet Adoption Center: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSbcs Corporation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Casa de las Madres: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetViking Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPedal the Cause: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 26.

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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.

Michael & Susan Dell FoundationTX13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving 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.

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About New Challenge Foundation

How much does New Challenge Foundation give?
New Challenge Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $7,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does New Challenge Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Human Services (29%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
Who are New Challenge Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Operation Homefront Inc ($16k), Caterinas Club ($14k), Marys Kitchen ($11k).
Does New Challenge Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does New Challenge 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 New Challenge Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is New Challenge Foundation based?
New Challenge Foundation is based in CA.

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 72 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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