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Newton Family Fund
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k46 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RIVERS COLORADO RIVER BASIN | $5,250 |
| SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE JUNEAU | $4,667 |
| FIELD INSTITUTE OF TAOS | $4,666 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DENVER | $4,000 |
| APPLEBY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SOLSTICE PROJECT | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| ARM OF THE SEA THEATRE | $2,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,500 |
| AMYLOIDOSIS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND | $1,500 |
| STINK BUG PROJECT AT ROCKY MTN CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 10 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF JUNEAU6× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +259%
- CICONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE4× · 2019–2023 · $23k · revenue +29%
- SPSOLSTICE PROJECT INC7× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +259%
Funded once
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +65%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +26%- IIFWHENHOWone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -42%
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.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
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…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Women Inc and the most unlike its peers is Guerrant Foundation Inc. 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 35 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 132 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
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 FAMILY PROMISE OF JUNEAU ↗
- Who funds SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APPLEBY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SOLSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Field Institute of Taos ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IFWHENHOW ↗
- Who funds Casa De Paz ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds New Directions Cello Association and Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PTA GEORGIA OKEEFE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Santa Fe Youth Symphony Incorporated ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · St Vincent Hospital · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Brindle Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Christus Health · Impactassetsinc · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Newton Family Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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.
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