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The Nell Newman Foundation Inc

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.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$809kFood & Nutrition$533kArts & Culture$196kPublic Benefit$169kCommunity Improvement$147kHealth$117kCivil Rights$71kPhilanthropy$67kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$86k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLWATERSORG$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION (UW FOUNDATION)$10,000
RON FINLEY PROJECT$10,000
ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT$10,000
AGRARIAN LAND TRUST$10,000
FOOD 4 FARMERS$10,000
PLANET WALK$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH$6,000
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$2,500
WALLOWA BAND NEZ PERCE TRAIL INTERPRETIVE CENTER INC (DBA NEZ PERCE WALLOWA$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

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MI
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PA
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CA
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NE
MO
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DC
HI
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GA
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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 53 repeat orgs$821k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
101

Total granted

$1.6M
$772k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+40%

Still filing today

89%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthOther
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

  • E
    Earthworks
    4× · 2018–2021 · $134k · revenue +238%
  • TY
    THE YES LAB INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $118k · revenue +216% · 69% of their budget
  • F4
    FOOD 4 FARMERS INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $75k · revenue +28%

Funded once

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

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
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
3
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
4
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
5
Mason County Climate Justice

Mason county climate justice envisions and co-creates local climate solutions that regenerate healthy ecosystems, benefit everyone in our rural community, and align with climate justice movements around the world.

Environment
6
Taproot Earth

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

Environment
7
New Roots Institute

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

Food & Nutrition
8
Grist Magazine Inc

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

Environment
9
Regenerative Organic Alliance

The roa intends to create a path for agricultural producers of food and fiber to introduce and scale the use of regenerative organic practices in their operation in an effort to increase soil health and carbon through soil. also the roa…

Food & Nutrition
10
Climate Foundation

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

Science & Tech
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

121 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 121 of the 169 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
120/121
Grantees still filing
90/121
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+86 more: $763,300 · Other+86 moreREDFORD CENTER INC: $65,000 · EnvironmentREDFORD CENTER INCSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS…COOK INLETKEEPER: $48,500 · EnvironmentCOOK INLETKEEPERPLANET WALK: $40,000 · EnvironmentPLANET WALKALASKA MARINE COMMUNITY COALITION: $35,000 · EnvironmentALASKA MARINE COMMU…Save the Waves Coalition: $35,000 · EnvironmentSave the Waves Coal…The Sierra Fund: $20,000 · Environment+18 more: $129,000 · Environment+18 moreFOOD 4 FARMERS INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD 4 FARMERS I…THE RON FINLEY PROJECT: $60,000 · Food & NutritionTHE RON FINLEY P…FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD AND ENVIRON…Civil Eats: $49,400 · Food & NutritionCivil EatsFARM AID INC: $21,000 · Food & NutritionFARM AID INCSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS: $18,500 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $17,500 · Food & NutritionFriends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration: $17,500 · Food & NutritionEcological Farming Association: $13,500 · Food & NutritionSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $12,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $19,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 moreTHE 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…HERITAGE RADIO NETWORK INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJosephy Center for Arts and Culture: $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 ServicesTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $3,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION: $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 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $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$1,139,800Environment$427,500Food & Nutrition$353,400Arts & Culture$242,500Public Benefit$175,500Human Services$83,500Philanthropy$73,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEarthworks: $134,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE YES LAB INC: $118,000 over 3y, 69% of budgetFOOD 4 FARMERS INC: $75,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $65,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RON FINLEY PROJECT: $60,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetPLANET WALK: $40,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS: $38,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALASKA MARINE COMMUNITY COALITION: $35,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSave the Waves Coalition: $35,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHE KANSAS RURAL CENTER: $30,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM COMMONS: $30,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFARM AID INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTIM BRAUCH MEMORIAL SKATE PARK FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetECOTRUST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Sierra Fund: $20,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 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 budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration: $17,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOMKAT RANCH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetPesticide Action Network North America: $11,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST GA PROJECT FOR COMMUNITY EDUCATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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

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 Nell Newman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nell Newman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 169 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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