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The Maury Newburger Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2018
34
Grants FY2018
6
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.

Arts & Culture$25kCivil Rights$3kPhilanthropy$2kInternational$2kMembership Benefit$2kEnvironment$2kHealth$2kEducation$1kOther$0
02FY2018 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$200
Median grant
6
States reached
$259k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$2,200
LAMBDA LEGAL$2,100
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC$1,500
FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER$1,250
FILM FORUM$1,200
THE ACTORS FUND$1,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$1,000
THE CARNEGIE HALL SOCIETY$900
THE GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW$600
PROVINCETOWN ARTS PRESS INC$520
THE AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION$500
BARD COLLEGE$300
SAGE$300
CITY MEALS ON WHEELS$266
NATIONAL LTBT TAX FREE & TASK FORCE$250
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PROVINCETOWN ARTS PRESS INC: $520 → 8%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $100 → 16%BARD COLLEGE: $750 → 9%COPLAND HOUSE: $1k → 9%NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL: $100 → 17%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $2k → 20%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $1k → 14%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $200 → 13%THE OTTERBEIN FUND: $100 → 15%CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $100 → 14%THE GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW: $600 → 16%BARD COLLEGE: $300 → 9%FILM FORUM: $1k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $300 → 14%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $200 → 13%THE GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW: $220 → 16%NATIONAL LTBT TAX FREE & TASK FORCE: $2k → 14%BOSTON LYRIC OPERA: $250 → 16%FILM FORUM: $1k → 17%NATIONAL LTBT TAX FREE & TASK FORCE: $250 → 14%THE AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $200 → 14%THE AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%USA FOR UNHCR: $200 → 14%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $200 → 17%INTERSCHOOL ORCHESTRAS OF NY: $1k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $500 → 17%SAGE: $300 → 17%WORLD MONUMENTS FUND: $200 → 17%FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $3k → 17%FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $1k → 17%LION WISE: $10k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND: $1k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND: $1k → 17%THE CARNEGIE HALL SOCIETY: $900 → 17%THE CARNEGIE HALL SOCIETY: $600 → 17%LAMBDA LEGAL: $2k → 17%LAMBDA LEGAL: $1k → 17%NY PUBLIC RADIO: $2k → 17%FRESH AIR FUND: $300 → 17%NY PUBLIC RADIO: $1k → 17%CITY MEALS ON WHEELS: $266 → 17%THE DRAMA LEAGUE OF NY: $125 → 17%FRESH AIR FUND: $200 → 17%THE DRAMA LEAGUE OF NY: $125 → 17%CITY MEALS ON WHEELS: $118 → 17%BROADWAY CARES EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS: $2k → 17%NEW MUSIC USA: $120 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NY
MA
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VA
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DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30k · 31 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
17

Total granted

$30k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+94%

Still filing today

77%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther

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

  • LL
    LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +196%
  • TA
    THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +80%
  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • LI
    LIONWISE INC DBA ESSENTIAL VOICES USAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +257%
  • BC
    BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +25%
  • CH
    COPLAND HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +133%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
2
Bang On a Can

Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
4
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
7
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
8
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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9
New York City Opera

New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…

Arts & Culture
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Music Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr21%20%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr11%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr21%13%20–35yr14%52%35–55yr11%35%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/45
the rest of the field
11%
6,223/55,747

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/44
Grantees still filing
34/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIONWISE INC DBA ESSENTIAL VOICES USA — $10,000 · OtherLIONWISE INC DBA ESSENTIAL VOICES USAIndividual grant recipient — $3,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL LTBT TAX FREE & TASK FORCE — $2,250 · OtherNATIONAL LTBT TAX FREE & TASK FORCEBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $1,565 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INCBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $1,500 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INCThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc — $1,500 · OtherThe Carnegie Hall Society IncINTERSCHOOL ORCHESTRAS OF NEW YORK INC — $1,300 · Other+18 more — $3,809 · Other+18 moreFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $4,250 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER IN…FILM FORUM INC — $2,250 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM INCCOPLAND HOUSE INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCOPLAND HOUSE INCHARVARD GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW INC — $820 · Arts & CultureHARVARD GAY & LESBIAN REV…PROVINCETOWN ARTS PRESS INC — $620 · Arts & CulturePROVINCETOWN ARTS PRESS I…+8 more — $1,470 · Arts & Culture+8 moreLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $3,100 · Civil RightsTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $2,000 · Membership BenefitThe American-Scandinavian Foundation — $1,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $600 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $200 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR — $200 · InternationalWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,300 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $200 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $100 · EnvironmentBARD COLLEGE — $1,050 · EducationHOOSAC SCHOOL — $200 · EducationPOINT FOUNDATION — $100 · EducationOtterbein University — $100 · Education
Other$25,324Arts & Culture$10,410Civil Rights$3,100Membership Benefit$2,000International$2,000Environment$1,600Education$1,450

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $4,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFILM FORUM INC — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $1,565 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERSCHOOL ORCHESTRAS OF NEW YORK INC — $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American-Scandinavian Foundation — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOPLAND HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARVARD GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW INC — $820 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROVINCETOWN ARTS PRESS INC — $620 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $384 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOOSAC SCHOOL — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC — $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS SUPPORT GROUP OF CAPE COD INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOtterbein University — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING WORKS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The New York Communit…Ann & Gordon Getty Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The New York Community TrustNY18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Maury Newburger 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Aids Support Group of Cape Cod Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
  • Provincetown Arts Press Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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