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The Nell Newman Foundation Inc

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.

$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$809kFood & Nutrition$533kArts & Culture$196kPublic Benefit$169kCommunity Improvement$147kHealth$117kCivil Rights$71kPhilanthropy$67kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$7,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$206k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REDFORD CENTER INC$15,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$15,000
GARDEN 31 COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC$10,000
JOSEPHY CENTER FOR ARTS AND CULTURE$10,000
CORNER POST MEDIA$7,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$5,000
FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC$5,000
YANKEE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC$3,000
CROSS THE DIVIDE$3,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 18%MARIPOSA DR FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $4k → 12%NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 18%WOMEN'S RIGHTS & EMPOWERMENT NETWORK (SCWREN): $5k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $8k → 10%HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%TIDES CENTER: $5k → 10%WOMEN'S RIGHTS & EMPOWERMENT NETWORK (SCWREN): $5k → 16%MENDING THE SACRED HOOP: $3k → 15%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $3k → 13%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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NE
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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.
$1.5M · 52 repeat orgs$777k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
97

Total granted

$1.5M
$751k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+50%

Still filing today

88%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthOther

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

  • E
    Earthworks
    4× · 2018–2021 · $134k · revenue +238%
  • TY
    THE YES LAB INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $118k · revenue +216% · 69% of their budget
  • FN
    FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
    5× · 2018–2023 · $66k · revenue +628%

Funded once

  • E(
    ECOTRUST (FOOD&FARMS)
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +50%
  • CP
    CAUSECENTRIC PRODUCTIONS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $30k

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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
3
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
4
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
5
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
6
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
7
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
8
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
9
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
10
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
11
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
12
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Community FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersDomestic Violence ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Policy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/126
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,439

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

119 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. 119 of the 163 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
118/119
Grantees still filing
88/119
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $105,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $65,500 · OtherFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEECOTRUST (FOOD&FARMS) — $50,000 · OtherENVIRONMENT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $38,000 · OtherCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS — $38,000 · OtherFoodWhat Incorporated — $40,000 · OtherGARDEN 31 COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC — $40,000 · Other+82 more — $734,800 · Other+82 moreREDFORD CENTER INC — $65,000 · EnvironmentREDFORD CENTER INCSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $55,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKET…COOK INLETKEEPER — $48,500 · EnvironmentCOOK INLETKEEPERALASKA MARINE COMMUNITY COALITION — $35,000 · EnvironmentALASKA MARINE COMM…Save the Waves Coalition — $35,000 · EnvironmentSave the Waves Coa…PLANET WALK — $30,000 · EnvironmentPLANET WALKThe Sierra Fund — $20,000 · Environment+17 more — $113,000 · Environment+17 moreFOOD 4 FARMERS INC — $65,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD 4 FARMERS …THE RON FINLEY PROJECT — $50,000 · Food & NutritionTHE RON FINLEY …FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD AND ENVIRO…Civil Eats — $49,400 · Food & NutritionCivil EatsFARM AID INC — $21,000 · Food & NutritionFARM AID INCSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS — $18,500 · Food & NutritionSUSTAINABLE AGR…Friends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration — $17,500 · Food & NutritionFriends of Acti…NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC — $17,500 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL YOUNG …Ecological Farming Association — $13,500 · Food & NutritionSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC — $12,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $9,000 · Food & NutritionTHE YES LAB INC — $118,000 · Arts & CultureTHE YES LAB…KANSAS SAMPLER FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS SAMP…FILM INDEPENDENT — $20,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPE…ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDI…Josephy Center for Arts and Culture — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE RADIO NETWORK INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $29,500 · Arts & Culture+7 moreEarthworks — $134,000 · Public BenefitThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $35,000 · Public Benefit+3 more — $6,500 · Public BenefitTIDES CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC — $11,500 · Human ServicesNEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesVENTURES — $10,000 · Human ServicesMariposa DR Foundation — $10,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK — $10,000 · Human ServicesHealing and Reconciliation Institute — $5,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION — $3,500 · Human ServicesTEWA WOMEN UNITED — $3,500 · Human Services+2 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesTIM BRAUCH MEMORIAL SKATE PARK FUND — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $18,000 · PhilanthropyTOMKAT RANCH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $5,000 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $5,000 · PhilanthropyAction Council of Monterey County Inc — $4,500 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,111,300Environment$401,500Food & Nutrition$323,400Arts & Culture$242,500Public Benefit$175,500Human Services$83,500Philanthropy$73,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEarthworks — $134,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE YES LAB INC — $118,000 over 3y, 69% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $65,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD 4 FARMERS INC — $65,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RON FINLEY PROJECT — $50,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetFOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC — $50,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCivil Eats — $49,400 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetCOOK INLETKEEPER — $48,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetKANSAS SAMPLER FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetFoodWhat Incorporated — $40,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGARDEN 31 COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC — $40,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS — $38,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALASKA MARINE COMMUNITY COALITION — $35,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSave the Waves Coalition — $35,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KANSAS RURAL CENTER — $30,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetFARM COMMONS — $30,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetPLANET WALK — $30,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFARM AID INC — $21,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY WELLNESS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetECOTRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIM BRAUCH MEMORIAL SKATE PARK FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Sierra Fund — $20,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCorner Post Media — $19,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE — $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS — $18,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration — $17,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC — $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOMKAT RANCH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEcological Farming Association — $13,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC — $12,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC — $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST GA PROJECT FOR COMMUNITY EDUCATION INC — $11,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPesticide Action Network North America — $11,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVENTANA WILDERNESS ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEnvironmental Traveling Companions — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 Schmidt Family Fo…Monterey Peninsula Fo…PatagoniaorgClif Family FoundationCommunity Foundation …Rsf Social Finance IncCommunity Foundation …The David and Lucile …Marin Community Found…Tides FoundationNewman's Own Foundati…Silicon Valley Commun…
The Schmidt Family FoundationCA43.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Schmidt Family Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Clif Family Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Community Foundation for San Benito County · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Nell Newman Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Farm Aid Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
  • Josephy Center for Arts and Culture — 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
30report 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

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 163 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines