· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE DONALD F & BARBARA L NEWMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHAEL AND MARCY NEWMAN FUND | $877,346 |
| NEWMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $877,346 |
| THOMAS AND CAROL NEWMAN CHARITABLE FUND | $877,346 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
25 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NSNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO4× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +48%
BUFFALO PREP INC4× · 2017–2020 · $49k · revenue +49%
KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- LMLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue +8%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHTOWNSone grant, 2020 · $85k
- TBThe Boys and Girls Club of the Northtowns Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $47k · revenue +37% · 46% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To attract new employers to the buffalo niagara region through outreach to growing companies around the world. to support business attraction, expansion and entrepreneurship, invest buffalo niagara collaborates with local businesses,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
By mobilizing members and strategic partners around common goals, the partnership grows private investment and jobs in buffalo niagara through advocacy, business development, and convening.
The erie community foundation works to improve the quality of life for all in our region by evaluating and addressing community issues, building permanent charitable endowments, and by promoting philanthropic and community leadership.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ecmc Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Newman Family 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEWMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PREP INC ↗
- Who funds The Boys and Girls Club of the Northtowns Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ECMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 INC ↗
- Who funds MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE POST INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds LOXAHATCHEE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BORDER ANGELS ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds JUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Loxahatchee River Historical Society Inc — 6% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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