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The Paul L Newman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$97k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
19%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$520
Largest grant, FY2024
$51,704
Organizations funded a year
16 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Paul L Newman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationReligionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$97k26%
FY202316$131k19%
FY202226$55k35%
FY202121$170k38%
FY202018$96k11%
FY201924$72k25%
FY201827$69k48%
FY201720$48kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$338kHousing & Shelter$157kAnimals$75kReligion$48kHuman Services$44kHealth$27kArts & Culture$16kEducation$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($429k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Paul L Newman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetProject Home: $157,409 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIsrael Guide Dog Center for the Blind: $74,668 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetKeren or Inc: $23,449 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetIs Kosloff Torah Academy High School for Girls: $10,673 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Chevra Inc: $5,180 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGratz College: $3,430 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJack M Barrack Hebrew Academy: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $1,590 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFree Library of Philadelphia Foundation: $1,530 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAbrams Hebrew Academy: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Documentary Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Cincinnati Incorporated: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChasdei Eliyahu: $850 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMorris and Rose Caskey Torah Academy of Greater Philadelphia: $610 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBikkur Cholim of Philadelphia: $420 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Links Incorporated South Jersey Chapter: $360 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYeshiva University: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethesda Foundation Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pennsylvania Innocence Project: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Army Historical Foundation Inc: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware Valley Fairness Project: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont Hills Fire Company: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Erlbaum Family FoundationPA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Erlbaum Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia · The Edwin J and Barbara R Berkowitz Family Foundation · Katz Family Charitable Trust · Tzedakah Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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.

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About The Paul L Newman Foundation

How much does The Paul L Newman Foundation give?
The Paul L Newman Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $97,062 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Paul L Newman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (46%), Housing & Shelter (21%), Animals (10%).
Who are The Paul L Newman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Project Home ($157k), Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind ($75k), Keren or Inc ($23k).
Does The Paul L Newman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Paul L Newman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Paul L Newman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erlbaum Family Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia.
Where is The Paul L Newman Foundation based?
The Paul L Newman Foundation is based in PA.

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 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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