How much does Newton Family Fund give?

Newton Family Fund reported 47 grants totaling $74,999 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Newton Family Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (17%), Health (16%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are Newton Family Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Family Promise of Juneau ($26k), Appleby Foundation Inc ($24k), Contigo Immigrant Justice ($23k).

Does Newton Family Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Newton Family Fund 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 Newton Family Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, St Vincent Hospital, Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation.

Where is Newton Family Fund based?

Newton Family Fund is based in WY.

Newton Family Fund

Newton Family Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$75k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$93kHealth$93kArts & Culture$69kCrime & Legal$48kInternational$42kPhilanthropy$33kHuman Services$32kHousing & Shelter$29kOther$0

02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k46 grants · $65k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$834k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND	$1,500
AMYLOIDOSIS FOUNDATION	$1,500
STINK BUG PROJECT AT ROCKY MTN CHILDRENS HOSPITAL	$1,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$1,500

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$422k · 65 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$422k

$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+25%

Still filing today

71%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

FP
FAMILY PROMISE OF JUNEAU
6× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +259%
CI
CONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE
4× · 2019–2023 · $23k · revenue +29%
SP
SOLSTICE PROJECT INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +259%

Funded once

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +65%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +26%
CD
Casa De Pazgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +46%

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.

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal

World Resources Institute

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…

International

Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science

Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

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.

Human Services

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment

Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment

Center for International Environmental Law Inc

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…

International

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Women Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 132 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

85/86

Grantees still filing

60/86

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$316,578Human Services$49,519Environment$45,850Crime & Legal$40,249International$39,500Arts & Culture$38,000Health$35,132

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

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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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