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Newton Family Foundation Inc

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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$319kHuman Services$105kRecreation & Sports$72kInternational$48kCommunity Improvement$20kHealth$19kArts & Culture$15kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $119k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$45,000
WIREGRASS MINISTRIES INC$25,000
LOVE IN ACTION INTERNATIONAL$25,000
CRU - ATHLETES IN ACTION$24,000
TIME YOUTH IMPACT CENTER$7,500
CULTURAL ARTS CENTER$5,000
COMMUNITIES OF TRANSFORMATION$5,000
ALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCES$5,000
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION$3,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GSMBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15k → 16%ALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCES: $5k → 18%THE 410 BRIDGE: $25k → 13%COMMUNITIES OF TRANSFORMATION: $5k → 17%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$434k · 6 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$434k
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+33%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyReligionArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • WH
    WIREGRASS HOPE GROUP INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +31%
  • LI
    LOVE IN ACTION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +46%
  • CA
    CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • T4
    THE 410 BRIDGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +33%
  • TT
    TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +55%
  • GC
    GSMBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -92%
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
Wayne Dorsett Ministries Inc

To reach lost people with the transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
2
Rick Webb Ministries

To work with churches around michigan to honor god through collaborative services with food, games, live worship, biblical teaching, prayer, response time, and small groups.

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3
Wiregrass Emergency Pregnancy Service

To uphold that every pregnant woman has the right to needed help to bring her child to term and to foster respect for human life from conception to natural death - all stages of development.

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4
All Peoples Ministries

Our mission is to equip believers so that they may fulfill god's plan and purpose for their lives.

Religion
5
Weakday Ministries

Bring christ to people where they are, increase opportunities for discipleship, and to partner with existing churches, community agencies, and individuals to help fill the gaps and meet the needs within the community.

Community Improvement
6
Wordsower Africa

The mission of wordsower africa is to equip and encourage christians in west african countries to bring the gospel to the unreached people groups, to disciple, become spiritual leaders and start healthy churches in every village god sends…

Religion
7
Livingwaterinme Ministries

To spread the love of christ, to restore joy to people, and to revive the lands - revival prayer walks in the us; prayer walks in other countries; speeches and life testimony sharing; mercy ministry; worship & music ministry; children…

Religion
8
Dirt Roads Network Inc

Establish a network of rural, disciple-making, life-giving, transformational church plants through the country. create rural-church revitalization cohorts that guide rural congregations through the process of revitalization.

Religion
9
Global Faith Network
Human Services
10
Land in Between Ministry

To teach people through repentance and faith in a personal relationship with jesus christ that will change their lives towards eternal salvation and help them recover from hurts, hang-ups, and habits and create a desire for them for…

Religion
11
Love Link Ministries Inc

Love link minsitries, inc seeks to reflect the transforming love of christ, alleviate poverty, and facilitate physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

Religion
12
Hope Grows International Inc

Hope grows international is working alongside the body of christ to bring hope to the hurting. we partner with organizations and missionaries that are already in the field to provide for the needs in their communities. we take sustainable…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ark Dothan Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

16 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. 16 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $138,400 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHWIREGRASS MINISTRIES INC: $130,793 · OtherWIREGRASS MINISTRIES INCCRU - ATHLETES IN ACTION: $72,000 · OtherCRU - ATHLETES IN ACTIONWIREGRASS HOPE GROUP INC: $55,000 · OtherWIREGRASS HOPE GROUP INCLOVE IN ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · Other+10 more: $76,000 · Other+10 moreTHE 410 BRIDGE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesGSMBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES OF TRANSFORMATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesLOVE IN ACTION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $23,000 · ReligionTHE WELLSPRING GROUP: $10,000 · ReligionTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWIREGRASS HONOR FLIGHT: $10,000 · Public BenefitWIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$497,193Human Services$50,000Religion$33,000Philanthropy$30,000Arts & Culture$15,000Public Benefit$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWIREGRASS HOPE GROUP INC: $55,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHE 410 BRIDGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOVE IN ACTION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $23,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGSMBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARK DOTHAN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE WELLSPRING GROUP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALK POSITIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOTHAN BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Wiregrass FoundationThe George & Laura Fl…The Paul & Barbara Fl…John H Watson Charita…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Wiregrass FoundationAL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wiregrass Foundation · The George & Laura Flowers Foundation · The Paul & Barbara Flowers Foundation · John H Watson Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 26 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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