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Newman Family 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.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$508kHealth$153kReligion$135kPublic Benefit$74kHuman Services$69kInternational$64kEducation$54kEnvironment$52kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIAMI CITY BALLET$70,000
BALLETCOLLECTIVE INC$15,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$12,500
GREENWICH HOUSE - MUSIC SCHOOL$10,000
JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION$10,000
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$5,000
JOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT YALE$5,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$3,000
BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION$3,000
CARY INSTITUTE$2,500
PENN HILLEL$2,500
NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC$2,500
DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY$2,000
HIAS$1,500
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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

VT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
DC
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 34 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
38

Total granted

$1.0M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+43%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • MC
    MIAMI CITY BALLET INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · 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 +69%
  • GH
    GREENWICH HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue +59%
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
The Economic Club of New York

The economic club of new york is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonpolitical organization dedicated to the promotion of the study and discussion of social, economic and political questions. for more than a century, the club has served as the…

Social Science
5
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
6
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.

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7
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
10
Arthur Miller Foundation

To honor the legacy of the great american playwright, arthur miller, and his new york city public school education, the arthur miller foundation (the "foundation") increases equitable access to quality theater education for public school…

Philanthropy
11
New York Academy of Art

The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…

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12
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich House Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 78 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
39/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATIONGRAND CENTRAL ATELIER: $90,000 · OtherGRAND CENTRAL ATELIERGREENWICH HOUSE - MUSIC SCHOOL: $51,000 · OtherGREENWICH HOUSE - MUSIC SCHOOLGREENWICH HOUSE INC: $37,500 · OtherGREENWICH HOUSE INCJOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT: $20,000 · Other+38 more: $122,300 · Other+38 moreMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INCBALLETCOLLECTIVE INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureBALLETCOLLECTIVE INCGRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INCRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $33,100 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE THEATRE INCBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $50,550 · Arts & Culture+7 moreJAMESTOWN FOUNDATION: $70,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $5,000 · International+2 more: $3,500 · InternationalMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $70,000 · Public BenefitDISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Public BenefitDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Public BenefitTexas Children's Hospital: $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $17,500 · Health+3 more: $2,050 · HealthDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $22,000 · EnvironmentCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC: $13,026 · EnvironmentMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $13,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,250 · EnvironmentNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $20,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,500 · EducationTHE WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $4,500 · EducationTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · Education
Other$520,800Arts & Culture$465,150International$78,500Public Benefit$76,000Health$69,550Environment$49,276Education$48,000

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 budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBALLETCOLLECTIVE INC: $105,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetJAMESTOWN FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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: $22,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC: $13,026 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,500 over 5y, 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 budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF WETHERSFIELD INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHIAS INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $4,500 over 2y, 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 budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetCENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION: $1,200 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 budgetCOLORADO FORUM FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBROOK HUNT INC: $800 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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 Tcherepnine Found…Anna Carolina and Soo…Lynn Favrot Nolan Fam…The Pamela Howard Fam…Berkshire Taconic Com…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundBarbara and Donald To…Hathaway Family Found…Morris and Alma Schap…The Bessemer Giving F…The New York Communit…
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

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 Newman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Newman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Learning Alliance Inc: 0% 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home