How much does The John and Wendy Neu Foundation give?

The John and Wendy Neu Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $2,400,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The John and Wendy Neu Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (41%), Environment (24%), Education (22%).

Who are The John and Wendy Neu Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc ($3.8M), William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc ($2.8M), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($2.8M).

Does The John and Wendy Neu Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The John and Wendy Neu 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 John and Wendy Neu Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Marta Heflin Foundation, Patagoniaorg.

Where is The John and Wendy Neu Foundation based?

The John and Wendy Neu Foundation is based in NJ.

The John and Wendy Neu Foundation

The John and Wendy Neu Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The John and Wendy Neu Foundation

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.

$2.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$7.1MEnvironment$4.2MEducation$3.8MScience & Tech$500kArts & Culture$320kInternational$147kCrime & Legal$100kHousing & Shelter$100kOther$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k5 grants · $105k
$50k–250k4 grants · $540k
$250k+3 grants · $1.8M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PETA	$1,000,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE	$500,000
ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES	$250,000
COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT	$240,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY	$100,000
ANIMAL HAVEN	$100,000
NYNJ BAYKEEPER	$100,000
Individual grant recipient	$40,000
GIRLS FOR A CHANGE	$25,000
DOGS AND CATS OF ANTIGUA	$20,000
MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK	$10,000
NEW YORK COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FUND INC	$10,000
SAVE THE BAY	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of The John and Wendy Neu Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The John and Wendy Neu Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$17M · 34 repeat orgs$785k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$735k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+19%

Still filing today

76%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & 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.

Backed again, and grew

PF
PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +147%
WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +206%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +41%

Funded once

GW
GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +56%
YP
YOUNG PROFESSIONALS IN FOREIGNPOLICY
one grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue -62%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $100k

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.

Environmental Advocates Ny Inc

For more than five decades, eany has championed policies that protect new york's air, water, land, and climate while serving as a trusted watchdog in albany. we translate community needs into legislative action and ensure leaders follow…

Environment

World Animal Protection

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…

Animals

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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…

Animals

Environment Now

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New Jersey Conservation Foundation

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…

Environment

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Clean Ocean Action Inc

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.

Environment

Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals

Wildlife Alliance Inc

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.…

Animals

Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Dba Nj League of Cons Voters

New jersey lcv is the statewide political voice for the environment. working with our allies in the community, we advocate for strong environmental policies, support our environmental justice partners in pursuing more equitable policies,…

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Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Humane World for Animals International

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…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dorot Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 65 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/48

Grantees still filing

34/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$6,210,500Education$4,428,150Environment$4,095,750Other$3,748,000Science & Tech$750,000Arts & Culture$192,000International$140,000

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

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 John and Wendy Neu Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John and Wendy Neu Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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