· Private foundation
The Newsome Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASBURY UNITED METHODIST | $155,000 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF RICKWOOD FIELD | $8,500 |
| CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ALABAMA KIDNEY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AUASBURY UNITED METHODIST4× · 2022–2025 · $291k
Samford University4× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +32%- TFTHE FRIENDS OF RICKWOOD FIELD3× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +197%
Funded once
- AUASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $51k
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOMEone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue 0%
- IMIRONDALE METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
Assist Wilson Medical Center in its mission of promoting, improving, and restoring health.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
Friends of kids with cancer is devoted to enriching the daily lives of children undergoing treatment for, and survivors of, cancer and blood-related diseases....(see schedule o)our mission is to be an advocate for these special kids…
To fund neurofibromatosis research and education and to provide for support groups for those facing the illness.
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
CancerFree KIDS exists to raise awareness of the need for more funding for pediatric cancer research and to raise funds that are invested in early stage, potentially game-changing research focused on gentler treatments and cures for…
To empower and support those at risk or affected by kidney disease. Its vision is a Tennessee where the rate of kidney disease is minimized and everyone who needs care receives care.
The National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho, a major nonprofit health organization, is dedicated to preventing diseases of the kidney, improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and families affected by kidney disease, and…
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
Provide monetary or financial aid exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes and to solicit, receive, maintain and disburse funds for these purposes and for the betterment of children.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF RICKWOOD FIELD ↗
- Who funds The Monday Morning Quarterback Club ↗
- Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Alabama Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM 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.
Open a dossier: Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Newsome Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Newsome Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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