Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 162 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,171,174 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($26,990,580). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 162
- Grants received
- $213M
- Net assets
- $52M
What New America Foundation does
Mission
New America Foundation is dedicated to renewing america by continuing the quest to realize our nation's highest ideals, honestly confronting the challenges caused by rapid technological and social change, and seizing the opportunities those changes create.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Domestic policy programseducation policy program: the education policy program uses original research and policy analysis to help solve the nation's critical education problems, crafting objective analyses and suggesting new ideas for policymakers, educators, and the public at large. New america combines a steadfast concern for historically disadvantaged populations with a belief that better information about education can vastly improve both the policies that govern educational institutions and the quality of learning itself. The education policy program contains several sub-programs: the early & elementary education policy team works to help ensure that all children have access to a system of high-quality early learning opportunities from birth through third grade that prepare them to succeed in school and in life.the prek-12 initiative works to ensure that all children attending public elementary and secondary schools have access to and receive high quality educational experiences, with a particular emphasis on improving equity and outcomes for traditionally underserved students. It also contains the following sub-initiatives:(1) the english learners initiative provides a…
$21,908,417 spentof which $4,424,441 as grants$241,309 earned by the program67% of program spendingTechnology policy programsopen technology institute: the open technology institute strengthens communities through grounded research, technological innovation, and policy reform. New america creates reform to support open source innovations and foster open technologies and communications networks. Partnering with communities, researchers, industry and public interest groups, new america promotes affordable, universal, and ubiquitous communications networks. In 2023 the program contained two initiatives:(1) the wireless future project develops and advocates policy proposals to promote universal, affordable, and ubiquitous broadband and improve the public's access to critical wireless communication technologies.(2) the ranking digital rights project evaluates and ranks the world's largest internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies' commitments, policies and practices affecting freedom of expression and privacy. This project concluded operations at new america as of december 1, 2023.public interest technology program: the public interest technology program connects technologists to public interest organizations to improve services to vulnerable communities and strengthen…
$5,632,624 spentof which $561,464 as grants$296,681 earned by the program17% of program spendingInternational policy programsfuture security: future security is a collaborative hub that reconceptualizes u.s. Security policy towards a holistic engagement with current and future challenges including domestic terrorism, armed drones, climate change, pandemics, rising authoritarianism, and new and emerging technologies. Partnering with arizona state university's future security initiative, we seek to generate transformative ideas and solutions grounded in concrete, transdisciplinary efforts to improve human flourishing and well-being.the digichina project, primarily through translating and analyzing chinese-language sources, works to understand how the chinese state and society deploy and use digital technologies policy developments. Future frontlines: future frontlines use open source investigative tools, data mining techniques, and journalistic methods to explorehow the digital revolution is reshaping global conflict, competition and influence. From satellite imagery to flight and shipping data to social media platforms, the program connects the dots to ferret out facts that might otherwise be hidden or even purposely obscured for strategic reasons. Using data that is publicly…
$2,038,623 spentof which $170,752 as grants6% of program spendingOther programs
$1,877,918 spentof which $376,572 as grants$154,561 earned by the program6% of program spendingFellows programs: the new america national fellows program invests in thinkers-journalists, scholars, filmmakers, and public policy analysts-who generate big, bold ideas that have an impact and spark new conversations about the most pressing issues of our day.
$1,027,250 spentof which $495,940 as grants3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,484,832.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $57M to $84M (+48%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 6% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 11% · 2022 3% · 2023 7% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (25% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Anne-Marie Slaughter
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $21M → $34M.
30 of 162 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 162 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
26% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 18% · 2019 13% · 2020 13% · 2021 13% · 2022 19% · 2023 16% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 149 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.8M on record — $2.8M federal, $52k state.
- Department of State$2.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$252k
- National Archives and Records Administration$150k
- Department of Commerce$88k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$30k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$35k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT>$75K$17k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION?
- NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 162 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,171,174 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($26,990,580). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 162 organizations giving $213,171,174 in grants to NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION, 87 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,990,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 162 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing