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The Charlotte W Newcombe Foundation at a glance

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The Charlotte W Newcombe Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$986k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$8.5MYouth Development$5.0M
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $720
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $800k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $986k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS$986,079
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY$75,000
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
CUNY SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES$50,000
PENN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY$50,000
MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - NEWARK$45,000
NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY$40,000
TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$40,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
KEAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$35,000
PENN STATE ABINGTON$35,000
RIDER UNIVERSITY$35,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PENN STATE ABINGTON: $53k → 7%ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $120k → 11%CEDAR CREST COLLEGE: $55k → 11%PENN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50k → 12%MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $75k → 17%GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 13%NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY: $100k → 4%MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $50k → 6%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $72k → 8%THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - NEWARK: $85k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $55k → 11%PENN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50k → 12%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $65k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 13%NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY: $70k → 4%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $57k → 8%THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - NEWARK: $60k → 16%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 13%NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY: $70k → 4%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60k → 11%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - NEWARK: $60k → 16%WIDENER UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 13%NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY: $50k → 4%THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $75k → 10%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 13%THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE: $50k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%CUNY SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES: $50k → 17%THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%GWYNEDD-MERCY UNIVERSITY: $60k → 7%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $53k → 11%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $63k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 54 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

54 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
3

Total granted

$13M
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+19%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $720 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +120%
  • THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $410k · revenue +27%
  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $250k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK
    one grant, 2021 · $55k
  • WU
    WIDENER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +19%
  • WC
    WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

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

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
5
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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6
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
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
9
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
10
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Salle University; the most unlike its peers is Kean University 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

38 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. 38 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
30/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS: $5,030,988 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARSNEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY: $370,000 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $340,500 · OtherGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $325,000 · Other+22 more: $2,753,720 · Other+22 moreTHOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $410,000 · EducationTHOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATI…VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $250,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN …RIDER UNIVERSITY: $240,000 · EducationTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 · EducationGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $225,000 · EducationCEDAR CREST COLLEGE: $215,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $213,000 · EducationCUNY SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $180,000 · EducationGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $177,000 · EducationMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $160,000 · Education+21 more: $1,926,500 · Education+21 more
Other$8,820,208Education$4,681,500

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 budgetINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS: $5,030,988 over 6y, 17% of budgetTHOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $410,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $240,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $225,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR CREST COLLEGE: $215,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $213,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCUNY SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $180,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $177,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $170,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $160,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $160,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $155,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $145,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE: $145,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWILSON COLLEGE: $145,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKEAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCABRINI LEGACY CORPORATION: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $92,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $69,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCDANIEL COLLEGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR CREST COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CUNY SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHATHAM UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WILSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds KEAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CABRINI LEGACY CORPORATION ↗

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.

Verizon FoundationNational Collegiate A…The George I Alden Tr…Council of Independen…The Philadelphia Foun…Mary H Bailey Char Tr…United East ConferenceThe Maguire FoundationLindback Cr & Mf Foun…W W Smith Charitable …Vanguard Charitable E…Ernst & Young Foundat…
Verizon FoundationNJ21.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The George I Alden Trust · Council of Independent Colleges · The Philadelphia Foundation · Mary H Bailey Char Tr Fd-Char Tr · United East Conference · The Maguire Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Ernst & Young 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Charlotte W Newcombe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charlotte W Newcombe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Stevenson University: 0% of income from government
  • Mcdaniel College Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Charlotte W Newcombe Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Charlotte W Newcombe Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 59 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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