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Newman's Own 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k105 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k60 grants · $4.5M
- $250k+4 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK | $3,500,000 |
| FOODCORPS INC | $1,500,000 |
| CHARITYVEST - NATIVE AMERICANS IN PHILANTHROPY | $500,000 |
| CHARITYVEST - FOOD RESEARCH & ACTION CENTER | $250,000 |
| CHARITYVEST - SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK | $200,000 |
| CHARITYVEST - SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK | $125,000 |
| CHARITYVEST - MAKOCE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT | $100,000 |
| CHARITYVEST - NORTH AMERICAN TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS FOOD SYSTEMS | $100,000 |
| CHARITYVEST - COMMUNITY FOOD ADVOCATES INC | $100,000 |
| CHARITYVEST - DREAM OF WILD HEALTH | $100,000 |
| CHARITYVEST - ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT | $100,000 |
| CHARITYVEST - GEORGIA ORGANICS INC | $100,000 |
| CHARITYVEST - FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| CHARITYVEST - SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT | $100,000 |
| CHARITYVEST - GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Newman's Own Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
379 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 354 since wound down; 133 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SCSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK6× · 2019–2024 · $25M · revenue +10% · 35% of their budget
FOODCORPS INC5× · 2019–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +23%- SHSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC4× · 2019–2022 · $3.7M · revenue +189%
Funded once
- FIFOODCORPS INCone grant, 2023 · $2.5M
- BCBROAD COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $115k · revenue +239% · 29% of their budget
- HSHISTORIC SOTTERLEY INCone grant, 2019 · $113k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Warde Football Gridiron. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
746 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 746 of the 978 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE WATER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RECENTER RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHIEF EXECUTIVES FOR CORPORATE PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds Food Research & Action Center ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS ↗
- Who funds Dakota Rural Action ↗
- Who funds VOTERIDERS ↗
- Who funds PAINTED DESERT DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CALVARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds WHOLESOME WAVE INC ↗
- Who funds THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERING AMISTAD INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHEF ANN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT STEP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BRONX MACHINE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds FAIR FOOD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Peoples United Community Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · Mbia Foundation · The Pitney Bowes Foundation
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's Own 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.
- Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
- American Indian Resource Center Inc — 79% of income from government
- Elderberry Wisdom Farm — 56% of income from government
- Delaware County Community Partnership Inc — 46% of income from government
- Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc — 41% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
- Historic Sotterley Inc — 28% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Green Village Initiative Inc — 14% of income from government
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- The Next Step Fund Inc — 10% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- American Mural Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Marathon Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.