· Private foundation
The John and Wendy Neu Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $250
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $640k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PETA | $700,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $400,000 |
| COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT | $302,000 |
| ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES | $250,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC) | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| NYNJ BAYKEEPER | $100,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| ANIMAL HAVEN | $50,000 |
| THE WILD BIRD FUND | $20,000 |
| LIBERTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| HACKENSACK RIVERKEEPER | $15,000 |
| SKYLANDS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The John and Wendy Neu Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PFPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +147%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +41%
WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +206%
Funded once
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +56%
- YPYOUNG PROFESSIONALS IN FOREIGNPOLICYone grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue -74%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Clean ocean action's goal is to improve and protect the waters off the new jersey/new york coast from pollution, plastics, industrialization and climate change with research, education and citizen action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Bird Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Companion Animal Placement 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 61 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 PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds RARITAN BAYKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SATO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG PROFESSIONALS IN FOREIGNPOLICY ↗
- Who funds Liberty Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds UPROSE INC ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Last Chance for Animals ↗
- Who funds HACKENSACK RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Ironbound Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BASEL ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Liberty State Park Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER ACTION ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
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 Hyde and Watson Foundation · Marta Heflin Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 John and Wendy Neu 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.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Pillar Care Continuum — 1% of income from government
- Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 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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