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Penny Lima Newhouse 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.

$6k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
54%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$206
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,950
Organizations funded a year
9 to 19
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$400k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Penny Lima Newhouse Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$6k36%
FY202313$7k54%
FY202219$17k32%
FY202117$22k71%
FY20209$17k56%
FY20199$7kn/a
66% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$20kYouth Development$13kEducation$9kCommunity Improvement$6kPublic Benefit$5kHuman Services$3kHealth$2kHousing & Shelter$500Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OR
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 22 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($39k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Penny Lima Newhouse Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Lincoln: $9,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWoodson Center: $5,952 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAdvance Youth Outreach: $5,800 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBraver AngelsInc: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc: $2,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $1,274 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKids Making It Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLouise Wells Cameron Art Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Fruit Ministries: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Wilmington Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Humanist Association: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJeff Gordon Childrens Foundation: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStorycorps Inc: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe John Locke Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUncw Corporation: $90 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOcearch: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC18.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Ags Charitable Trust Uad May 21 1965 · Stein Family Charitable Foundation · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Penny Lima Newhouse Foundation

How much does Penny Lima Newhouse Foundation give?
Penny Lima Newhouse Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $5,835 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Penny Lima Newhouse Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Youth Development (17%), Education (12%).
Who are Penny Lima Newhouse Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Friends of Lincoln ($9k), Woodson Center ($6k), Advance Youth Outreach ($6k).
Does Penny Lima Newhouse Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Penny Lima Newhouse Foundation 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 Penny Lima Newhouse Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, The Landfall Foundation Inc, Ags Charitable Trust Uad May 21 1965.
Where is Penny Lima Newhouse Foundation based?
Penny Lima Newhouse Foundation is based in NC.

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 45 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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