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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.

$456k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$741kArts & Culture$417kScience & Tech$408kInternational$163kHuman Services$92kPhilanthropy$87kEducation$67kHealth$66kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Worldwide Friends Foundation$60,000
Brothers for Life$60,000
American Technion Society$50,000
Hillel International$36,000
Seattle Academy SAAS$30,000
Seattle Hebrew Academy$30,000
Jewish Federation$27,000
Holocaust Center for Humanity$26,800
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Stand With Us$20,000
JFS$18,000
Hadassah$17,500
Shalom Hartman Institute$10,000
Stroum Jewish Community Center$8,000
Camp Solomon Schechter$6,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STAND WITH US NORTHWEST: $20k → 14%Hillel International: $36k → 14%Holocaust Center for Humanity: $60k → 9%Stand With Us: $20k → 14%Seattle Academy SAAS: $30k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION: $28k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE (JFS): $18k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $18k → 17%Jewish Federation: $27k → 9%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH: $18k → 17%JFS: $18k → 9%Holocaust Center for Humanity: $27k → 9%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION (AST): $123k → 17%American Society for Technion (AST): $63k → 17%HOLOCAUST CENTER FOR HUMANITY: $22k → 9%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $60k → 17%American Technion Society: $50k → 17%HOLOCAUST CENTER FOR HUMANITY: $20k → 9%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION (AST): $48k → 17%American Society for Technion (AST): $38k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION: $18k → 9%American Society for Technion (AST): $38k → 17%American Society for Technion (AST): $38k → 17%HOLOCAUST CENTER FOR HUMANITY: $15k → 9%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $40k → 17%Worldwide Friends Foundation: $60k → 17%HADASSAH: $19k → 9%Hadassah: $18k → 9%SEATTLE HEBREW ACADEMY: $130k → 9%SEATTLE HEBREW ACADEMY: $40k → 9%Seattle Hebrew Academy: $30k → 9%Seattle Hebrew Academy: $30k → 9%SEATTLE HEBREW ACADEMY: $30k → 9%Brothers for Life: $60k → 9%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $48k → 9%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $20k → 9%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $18k → 9%ISLAND SYNAGOGUE: $100k → 9%ISLAND SYNAGOGUE: $50k → 9%Island Synagogue: $50k → 9%HILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $35k → 9%Hillel UW: $25k → 9%HILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $25k → 9%Hillel at the University of Washington: $20k → 9%Hillel at the University of Washington: $20k → 9%Hillel at the University of Washington: $20k → 9%HILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $20k → 9%Hillel at the University of Washington: $20k → 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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 27 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
11

Total granted

$1.8M
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+23%

Still filing today

44%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationArts & CultureReligionCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BF
    Brothers for Life
    8× · 2017–2024 · $206k · revenue ×13
  • CS
    CONGREGATION SHEVET ACHIM
    4× · 2019–2024 · $205k · revenue +70%
  • HC
    Holocaust Center For Humanity
    8× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +174%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -45%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -51%
  • J
    JDC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
4
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
7
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
8
The Jerusalem Connection
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9
Hillel At the George Washington University Inc

The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…

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10
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
11
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
12
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Jewish Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer. 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

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 58 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION (AST): $345,000 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION (AST)CONGREGATION SHEVET ACHIM: $205,360 · OtherCONGREGATION SHEVET ACHIMHolocaust Center For Humanity: $166,225 · OtherHolocaust Center For HumanityHillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington: $160,000 · OtherHillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of WashingtonHADASSAH: $85,800 · OtherHADASSAHJEWISH FEDERATION: $73,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATIONJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE (JFS): $70,978 · Other+31 more: $227,425 · Other+31 moreSeattle Hebrew Academy: $260,000 · ReligionSeattle Hebrew …HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $36,000 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUN…+1 more: $500 · ReligionAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $110,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCI…Worldwide Friends Foundation: $60,000 · InternationalWorldwide Fri…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $45,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATION…ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $20,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $18,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIE…THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 · InternationalBrothers for Life: $206,000 · Arts & CultureBrothers fo…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF …+1 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $57,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $5,800 · Education+2 more: $1,000 · EducationCamp Solomon Schechter: $17,000 · Recreation & SportsJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyOREGON JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,600 · Philanthropy
Other$1,333,788Religion$296,500International$273,000Arts & Culture$228,000Education$63,800Recreation & Sports$17,000Philanthropy$13,600

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 budgetSeattle Hebrew Academy: $260,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBrothers for Life: $206,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCONGREGATION SHEVET ACHIM: $205,360 over 4y, 10% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity: $166,225 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetHillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington: $160,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWorldwide Friends Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $57,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $36,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBURKITT'S LYMPHOMA FUND FOR AFRICA: $30,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Solomon Schechter: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $5,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIVKIN CENTER FOR OVARIAN CANCER: $4,605 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIE: $1,360 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINDERTRANSPORT ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $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.

  • Who funds Seattle Hebrew Academy ↗
  • Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
  • Who funds CONGREGATION SHEVET ACHIM ↗
  • Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
  • Who funds Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds Worldwide Friends Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds BURKITT'S LYMPHOMA FUND FOR AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds Camp Solomon Schechter ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVKIN CENTER FOR OVARIAN CANCER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗

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.

Samis FoundationSeattle FoundationJewish Federation of …R & H Rosen Family Fo…Tillie & Alfred Shema…Lott FoundationJewish Communal FundThe Franka FoundationThe Rabbi Arthur a Ja…Howard and Frances Ke…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Samis FoundationWA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 58 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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