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The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.6M
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
3
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$877,346
Largest grant, FY2022
$877,346
Organizations funded a year
3 to 33
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22
HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyScience & TechCrime & LegalOther
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
FY20223$2.6M100%
FY202033$476k36%
FY201924$175k29%
FY201823$176k52%
FY201720$148kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$2.6MYouth Development$275kHealth$180kArts & Culture$151kScience & Tech$128kEducation$121kReligion$26kCrime & Legal$19kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
CT
CA
VA
TN
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLoggerhead Marinelife Center Inc: $120,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNichols School of Buffalo: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBuffalo Prep Inc: $49,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Boys and Girls Club of the Northtowns Foundation Inc: $47,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetKaleida Health Foundation: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBuffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEcmc Foundation Inc: $27,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAssembly House 150 Inc: $20,500 over 4y, 50% of budgetMorton Plant Mease Health Care Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBuffalo Fine Arts Academy: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInvestigative Post Inc: $19,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCanisius University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmherst Police Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetClearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCity Mission Society Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of the Suncoast Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLoxahatchee River Historical Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBorder Angels: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBuffalo Rotary Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Summit Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJust Buffalo Literary Center Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLaw Enforcement Foundation of Wny: $4,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErie Community College Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVictory Sports Global Outreach Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetShakespeare in Delaware Park Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $1,000 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 31.

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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.

The Baird FoundationNY26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Baird Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · The Richard W Rupp Foundation · The Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · Cullen 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.

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Find your warmest path to The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation

How much does The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation give?
The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $2,632,038 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (73%), Youth Development (8%), Health (5%).
Who are The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Newman Family Foundation Inc ($877k), Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc ($120k), Roswell Park Alliance Foundation ($59k).
Does The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family 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 The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Baird Foundation, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Osc Charitable Foundation.
Where is The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation based?
The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 55 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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