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The Newcomb-Hargraves Foundation at a glance

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The Newcomb-Hargraves Foundation

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.

$265k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.4MEducation$890kEnvironment$149kScience & Tech$60kHealth$52kInternational$17kPublic Benefit$11kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$55,000
7 WEST 43RD STREET FOUNDATION$50,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BOTANICS FOUNDATION$15,000
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$10,000
ROGER TORY PETERSON ESTUARY CENTER$10,000
MUSICAL MASTERWORKS INC$6,000
MACDOWELL COLONY INC$5,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT$5,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$5,000
CITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION$5,000
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE$5,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$5,000
YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC$5,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $6k → 17%PARADIGM FOR PARITY: $1k → 17%SEARCH AND CARE INC: $1k → 17%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 55 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
25

Total granted

$2.4M
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+17%

Still filing today

71%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • NY
    New York Historical Society
    6× · 2020–2025 · $827k · revenue +5%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $736k · revenue +22%
  • LL
    LYME LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TN
    The New School
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • MS
    MANNES SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • JL
    JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +842%
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 Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
2
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
3
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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4
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

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

—
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
11
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
12
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

62 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. 62 of the 88 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
41/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New York Historical Society: $826,500 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical SocietyThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $88,150 · Arts & CultureThe Metropolitan Opera Guild IncThe Vienna Philharmonic Society: $69,000 · Arts & CultureThe Vienna Philharmonic SocietyFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC: $45,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $93,400 · Arts & Culture+18 moreCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $736,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEGETrustees of Dartmouth College: $75,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · Education+6 more: $50,000 · Education+6 more7 WEST 43RD STREET FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Other7 WEST 43RD STR…MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $40,000 · OtherMARIAN AND EDWA…MUSICAL MASTERWORKS INC: $28,500 · OtherMUSICAL MASTERW…EFFROC - EDMEE FIRTH FUND FOR RESEARCH IN OVARIAN CANCER THE: $18,000 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $16,500 · OtherLYMAN ALLYN MUSEUM: $14,500 · OtherThe English Concert In America Inc co Sabal & Associates: $12,500 · Other+39 more: $172,500 · Other+39 moreLYME LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $105,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BOTANICS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentScenic Hudson Inc: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,300 · EnvironmentWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $60,000 · Science & TechCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $6,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA CORP: $5,500 · InternationalCROSBY FUND FOR HAITIAN EDUC INC: $4,150 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalCITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $11,000 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$1,122,050Education$906,000Other$352,500Environment$126,300Science & Tech$60,000International$17,150Public Benefit$11,000

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 budgetNew York Historical Society: $826,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $736,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLYME LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $105,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $88,150 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Vienna Philharmonic Society: $69,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMUSICAL MASTERWORKS INC: $28,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $23,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $17,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BOTANICS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCENTURY ASSOCIATION ARCHIVES FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetThe English Concert In America Inc co Sabal & Associates: $12,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $11,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSalt Marsh Opera Company: $10,250 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe New School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES: $8,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetHILL-STEAD MUSEUM: $8,450 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG INC: $6,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA CORP: $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPE HISTORY INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetESSEX WINTER SERIES INC: $5,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LANDSCAPE STUDIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCROSBY FUND FOR HAITIAN EDUC INC: $4,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL CONCERTS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMacCurdy Salisbury Educational Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLYME AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINT THEATER COMPANY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LYME LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds The Vienna Philharmonic Society ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSICAL MASTERWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BOTANICS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTURY ASSOCIATION ARCHIVES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The English Concert In America Inc co Sabal & Associates ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Salt Marsh Opera Company ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds The New School ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG INC ↗
  • Who funds JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗

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.

Connecticut Humanitie…Kitchings Family Foun…Andrew J & Anita G Fr…The Jean & Louis Drey…The Community Foundat…The Howard Gilman Fou…Aetna Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…The Laboiteaux - Shar…Sarah Tod Fund Dtd 12…The Newburgh Institut…The Robert Stern Fami…
Connecticut Humanities Council IncCT22.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Kitchings Family Foundation · Andrew J & Anita G Frankel Family Foundation Inc · The Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Laboiteaux - Sharp Family Foundation · Sarah Tod Fund Dtd 121454 · The Newburgh Institute for the Arts and Ideas · The Robert Stern Family 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 Newcomb-Hargraves Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Newcomb-Hargraves Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Lymes Youth Service Bureau: 23% of income from government
  • Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Hill-Stead Museum: 7% of income from government
  • Chestnut Hill Concerts Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Essex Winter Series Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Florence Griswold Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lyme Art Association Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 88 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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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