How much does The Newbern Foundation give?

The Newbern Foundation reported 106 grants totaling $106,030 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 91 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Newbern Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Human Services (14%), Youth Development (9%).

Who are The Newbern Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Roanoke College ($14k), Boy Scouts of Americablue Ridge Mountains Council ($13k), Operation Gratitude Inc ($12k).

Does The Newbern Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Newbern Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Newbern Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, Robertson Family Foundation Inc, Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect.

Where is The Newbern Foundation based?

The Newbern Foundation is based in VA.

The Newbern Foundation

The Newbern Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Newbern Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$106k

Granted FY2024still arriving

106

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$243kHuman Services$100kYouth Development$69kPhilanthropy$50kArts & Culture$49kHealth$44kPublic Benefit$38kAnimals$27kOther$0

02FY2024 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k105 grants · $96k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ALEXANDER-THARPE FUND AT GA TECH	$10,000
GEORGIA TECH ROLL CALL	$3,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION	$2,500
SAMARITAN'S PURSE	$2,500
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA	$2,000
AMERICARES	$2,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE	$1,500
Individual grant recipient	$1,500
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE POLICY INSTITUTE	$1,500
JUDICIAL WATCH	$1,500
ROANOKE VALLEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH	$1,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT	$1,500
HERITAGE FOUNDATION	$1,500
OPERATION GRATITUDE	$1,500
SALVATION ARMY ROANOKE CHAPTER	$1,500

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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$656k · 103 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103

Total granted

$656k

$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+48%

Still filing today

50%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureAnimalsHealthOther

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

OG
OPERATION GRATITUDE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +72%
FH
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +32%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +17%

Funded once

GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +116%
CC
Carilion Clinic Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +114%
YL
YOUNG LIFEgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +59%

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.

United States Naval Institute

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.

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University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education

Furman University

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.

Education

National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

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University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education

Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education

National Institute of Aerospace Associates

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.…

Science & Tech

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Fielding Graduate University

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.

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Npr Foundation

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 168 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)

80/81

Grantees still filing

51/81

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$525,975Education$57,730Public Benefit$49,150Human Services$41,200Arts & Culture$34,820Animals$16,500Health$7,100

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.

Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA48.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home