· Private foundation
The Newbern Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k105 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALEXANDER-THARPE FUND AT GA TECH | $10,000 |
| GEORGIA TECH ROLL CALL | $3,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,500 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| AMERICARES | $2,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| OPERATION GRATITUDE | $1,500 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| CLARE BOOTHE LUCE POLICY INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY ROANOKE CHAPTER | $1,500 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $1,500 |
| ROANOKE VALLEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
103 repeat relationships — 82 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- OGOPERATION GRATITUDE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +72%
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +32%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +17%
Funded once
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +116%- CCCarilion Clinic Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +82%
- YLYOUNG LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +59%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
National institute of aerospace (nia) is a non-profit research and graduate education institute functioning as a partner with the nasa langley research center (larc), other government agencies and laboratories, universities, and industry.…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lishys Gift. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 168 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 ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICABLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GRATITUDE INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MILITARY FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRATITUDEAMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN IN NASSAU COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds APPLE RIDGE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO ↗
- Who funds THE ARC NASSAUINC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds West End Center Inc ↗
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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc · Evelyn F James Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation · Carilion Medical Center · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Farrell Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Newbern 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.
- Micahs Place Inc — 32% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amelia Island Museum of History Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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.