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Newman Family 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.

$225k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Arts & Culture$508kHealth$153kReligion$135kPublic Benefit$74kHuman Services$69kInternational$64kEducation$54kEnvironment$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $175k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIAMI CITY BALLET$45,000
GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER$30,000
JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION$20,000
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE$20,000
BALLETCOLLECTIVE INC$17,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$12,500
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY$10,000
FORUM ON LIFE CULTURE & SOCIETY$10,000
GREENWICH HOUSE - MUSIC SCHOOL$10,000
RIVERSIDE THEATRE$6,000
DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY$5,000
JOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT YALE$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$5,000
BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION$3,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 22%NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER: $750 → 22%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%THE STISSING CENTER: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
DC
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$875k · 32 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
31

Total granted

$875k
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+43%

Still filing today

72%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • MC
    MIAMI CITY BALLET INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $130k · revenue +36%
  • MI
    MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +38%
  • RT
    RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • GC
    GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +3%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +47%
  • GH
    GREENWICH HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue +59%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

2
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
3
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
4
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
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
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
Boston Architectural College

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

11
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
12
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mashomack Community Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringLocal History MuseumsAddiction Recovery ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Jewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Community Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%48%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,518

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
36/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION — $187,500 · OtherBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATIONGRAND CENTRAL ATELIER — $90,000 · OtherGRAND CENTRAL ATELIERGREENWICH HOUSE - MUSIC SCHOOL — $41,000 · OtherGREENWICH HOUSE - MUSIC SCHOOLGREENWICH HOUSE INC — $37,500 · OtherGREENWICH HOUSE INC+37 more — $132,100 · Other+37 moreMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $130,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INCBALLETCOLLECTIVE INC — $90,000 · Arts & CultureBALLETCOLLECTIVE INCGRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INCRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC — $33,100 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE THEATRE INCALL STARS PROJECT INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $31,050 · Arts & Culture+6 moreMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $70,000 · Public BenefitDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Public BenefitDISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · Public BenefitTexas Children's Hospital — $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $12,500 · Health+2 more — $1,300 · HealthJAMESTOWN FOUNDATION — $60,000 · InternationalHIAS INC — $3,500 · InternationalDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $13,000 · EnvironmentCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $10,526 · Environment+1 more — $1,250 · EnvironmentTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $10,500 · EducationNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $7,000 · EducationGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL — $4,500 · EducationTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC — $4,000 · Education+2 more — $2,000 · Education
Other$488,100Arts & Culture$372,650Public Benefit$76,000Health$63,800International$63,500Environment$44,776Education$38,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $130,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBALLETCOLLECTIVE INC — $90,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJAMESTOWN FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetGRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC — $60,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOUSE INC — $37,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC — $33,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $10,526 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORUM ON LIFE CULTURE & SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF WETHERSFIELD INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT 100 OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — $4,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER — $3,750 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHIAS INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASHOMACK COMMUNITY FUND INC — $1,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINNISFREE FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetMILLBROOK GARDEN CLUB INC — $1,250 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOLORADO FORUM FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLITERACY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINE PLAINS MEMORIAL HALL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBROOK HUNT INC — $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMillerton Fire Company Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Tcherepnine Foundation IncNY19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Tcherepnine Foundation Inc · Anna Carolina and Soo Kim Foundation · Lynn Favrot Nolan Family Fund · The Pamela Howard Family Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Barbara and Donald Tober Foundation Attn Jack Vivinetto · Hathaway Family Foundation · Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The New York Community Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Newman Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Hias Inc88% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc0% of income from government
  • The Learning Alliance Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Newman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Newman Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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