Washington · Private foundation
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.
- $456k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 27
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Newman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $406k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $391k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $433k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $244k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $159k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $201k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $110k | 23% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $113k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Hebrew Academy | $260,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Brothers for Life | $206,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Congregation Shevet Achim | $205,360 | 4 | 10% |
| Holocaust Center For Humanity | $166,225 | 8 | 3% |
| Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington | $160,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Worldwide Friends Foundation | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences | $57,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Burkitt's Lymphoma Fund for Africa | $30,000 | 6 | 12% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($749k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Newman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Samis Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · R & H Rosen Family Foundation · Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust · Lott Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Franka Foundation · The Rabbi Arthur a Jacobovitz Institute · Howard and Frances Keller Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About Newman Family Foundation
- How much does Newman Family Foundation give?
- Newman Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $456,020 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Newman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (33%), Arts & Culture (19%), Science & Tech (18%).
- Who are Newman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Seattle Hebrew Academy ($260k), Brothers for Life ($206k), Congregation Shevet Achim ($205k).
- Does Newman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Newman Family 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 Newman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Samis Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.
- Where is Newman Family Foundation based?
- Newman Family Foundation is based in WA.
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