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Samuel I Newhouse Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$18MHealth$9.3MArts & Culture$3.1MCivil Rights$550kYouth Development$300kHuman Services$230kPhilanthropy$203kRecreation & Sports$173kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $60,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $13,275,335 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,215,335 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$212M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
02The need
03

Where the grant dollars land

Across the US and around the world.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DC
How this is measured
Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the 990 filings.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 56 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
57

Total granted

$29M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+9%

Still filing today

79%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $9.3M · revenue +30%
  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +8%
  • TV
    THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER
    3× · 2021–2024 · $830k · revenue +257%

Funded once

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +1%
  • MI
    Mary Immaculate Church
    one grant, 2024 · $110k
  • CH
    CROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +22%
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.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
8
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. 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

77 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. 77 of the 125 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
58/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $9,275,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONTrustees of Tufts College: $600,000 · Education+15 more: $1,655,500 · Education+15 moreTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION: $5,750,000 · HealthTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOT…NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $1,510,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND …SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC: $300,000 · Health+4 more: $300,000 · HealthYale University: $4,500,000 · OtherYale UniversityNew York Presbyterian Hospital: $375,000 · OtherMetropolitan Opera: $300,000 · OtherHospital for Special Surgery: $300,000 · Other+62 more: $2,486,332 · Other+62 moreTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $830,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $500,000 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $410,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $150,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $85,000 · Arts & Culture+21 more: $342,000 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $300,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $150,000 · Civil RightsKERING FOUNDATION IN THE AMERICAS INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsGIRL EFFECT INC: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $75,000 · PhilanthropyCFDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,000 · Philanthropy
Education$13,030,500Health$7,860,000Other$7,961,332Arts & Culture$2,317,000Civil Rights$550,000Youth Development$300,000Philanthropy$228,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $9,275,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION: $5,750,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $1,510,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $830,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $500,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $410,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWellesley College: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL EFFECT INC: $300,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $230,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC: $120,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKERING FOUNDATION IN THE AMERICAS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRIME COALITION INC: $78,332 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIONEER VALLEY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCFDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $42,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetPORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $25,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Jewish Communal FundRichmond County Savin…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Hyde and Watson F…The Ford FoundationThe Staten Island Fou…The Amphion Foundatio…The Fan Fox and Lesli…The Howard Gilman Fou…New England Foundatio…The Roberta and Allan…The Irene E and Georg…
Jewish Communal FundNY20.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

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 125 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home