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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

New Futures

Mission: to create educational opportunities for rewarding careers. The organization provides a practical yet innovative program of scholarships, career education services, and support to low-income dc-area young people pursuing shorter-term post-secondary educational opportunities toward fulfilling careers.

$469k
Granted FY2020
3
Itemized grants FY2020
3
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$40k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$13,560
Largest grant, FY2020
$14,907
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2018 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Total assets, FY2020
$3.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations New Futures funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20203$40k0%
FY20195$44k0%
FY201811$339kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Education$345kYouth Development$62kHuman Services$16k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of New Futures by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Collegetracks Inc$117,51445%
Latin American Youth Center$62,40020%
Liberty's Promise$57,85543%
Layc Career Academy Public Charter School$47,08141%
The Urban Alliance Foundation Inc$41,20010%
The Next Step Public Charter School$31,20010%
Jubilee Jobs Inc$27,33633%
Covenant House Washington DC$15,60020%
Year Up Inc$7,80020%
New York Avenue Foundation$7,8001n/a
Academy of Hope Adult Public Charter School$7,50030%

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCollegetracks Inc: $117,514 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetLatin American Youth Center: $62,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLiberty's Promise: $57,855 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetLayc Career Academy Public Charter School: $47,081 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Urban Alliance Foundation Inc: $41,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Next Step Public Charter School: $31,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJubilee Jobs Inc: $27,336 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCovenant House Washington DC: $15,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYear Up Inc: $7,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAcademy of Hope Adult Public Charter School: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% 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 10.

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Network for Good · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Futures

How much does New Futures give?
New Futures reported 3 itemized grants totaling $40,407, out of $469,036 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.
What does New Futures fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (82%), Youth Development (15%), Human Services (4%).
Who are New Futures's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2020: Collegetracks Inc ($118k), Latin American Youth Center ($62k), Liberty's Promise ($58k).
Does New Futures fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as New Futures?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
Where is New Futures based?
New Futures is based in DC.

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 11 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $395k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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