New York · Private foundation
Samuel I Newhouse 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.
- $13M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $60k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 74
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $212M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Samuel I Newhouse Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $60k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 62 | $10.0M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $10M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $60k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 74 | $10M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syracuse University | $9,275,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration | $5,750,000 | 3 | 29% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $1,510,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater | $830,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $600,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Dance Institute | $500,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Film at Lincoln Center Inc | $410,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Wellesley College | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Girl Effect Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Samuel I Newhouse Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Richmond County Savings Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Staten Island Foundation · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Roberta and Allan Weissglass Foundation · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation
How this is measured
About Samuel I Newhouse Foundation Inc
- How much does Samuel I Newhouse Foundation Inc give?
- Samuel I Newhouse Foundation Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $60,000, out of $13,275,335 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 74 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Samuel I Newhouse Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (14%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Samuel I Newhouse Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Syracuse University ($9.3M), The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration ($5.8M), New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc ($1.5M).
- Does Samuel I Newhouse Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Samuel I Newhouse Foundation Inc 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 Samuel I Newhouse Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Richmond County Savings Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Samuel I Newhouse Foundation Inc based?
- Samuel I Newhouse Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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