· Private foundation
Novum 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $188k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mission Success of Houston | $85,869 |
| Elijah's Retreat Inc | $51,705 |
| Mensajeros de la Paz | $50,000 |
| Austism Speaks Inc | $49,771 |
| The Bienvenido Project (FUNFONAVI) | $44,962 |
| Fundacion Innovacion Ortopedica sin Limites | $40,000 |
| National Autistic Society | $40,000 |
| Amani Foundation | $30,000 |
| Nucleo | $20,000 |
| Sumando Manos Foundation Inc | $20,000 |
| Integrar | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,560 |
| Monte Azul Inc | $15,600 |
| Mumas Renaciendo | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 59% of grant dollars ($448k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 41% that went abroad ($316k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 41% of all-years giving ($316k)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Novum Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ERElijah's Retreat Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $103k · revenue -3%
- ASAUTISM SPEAKS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $72k · revenue -21%
- TBThe Bienvenido Project (FUNFONAVI)2× · 2023–2024 · $69k
Funded once
- MSMISSION SQUASH OF HOUSTONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue +55%
- ININSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +29%
- JLJohn Langdon Down Foundation ACone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
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.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Elijah's Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds SUMANDO MANOS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUMAS RENACIENDO CORP ↗
- Who funds AMANI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION SQUASH OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA INC ↗
- Who funds Monte Azul Inc ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSCHOOLS 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Novum Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Novum Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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