California · Nonprofit
NEW PUBLIC INC
NEW PUBLIC INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,091,302 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,076,193). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.8M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What New Public Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to ensure that every community has a healthy digital public space by helping local communities across america create more flourishing digital spaces and developing prototypes for digital conversation with public service media organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Roundabout is a steward-led local community platform, designed to help neighbors connect and build healthy local digital spaces. In fy25, new_ public launched closed beta pilots in five u.s. Communities, spanning urban, suburban, and rural contexts and representing a combined population of roughly 200,000 residents. Roundabout recruited stewards with deep local ties, and built and shipped an mvp app in six months with a small, focused team. Early results exceeded benchmarks for returning members, original content, and no harassment or spam.
$2,215,141 spent$36,691 earned by the program46% of program spendingPublic spaces incubator (psi) is an international consortium of public service media organizations representing over 80 million monthly users across five countries collaborating with new_ public to design tools and practices for healthier online dialogue. In fy25, psi welcomed german broadcaster ard and deepened cbc/radio-canada's participation, added open-source contributors, and expanded tools for moderation, audience participation, and editorial workflows. Psi's influence helped establish public conversation as a core legal responsibility of public service media in germany.
$2,466,417 spent52% of program spendingResearch and explorations is new_ public's effort to identify and support the next generation of digital public space products and the entrepreneurs who will build them. In fy25, the program established its foundational focus on two tracks: deepening research in areas of highest promise and developing programming to support external entrepreneurs building in the public interest. The work reflects new_ public's core belief that a healthier digital public life will require many different steward-led spaces operating across diverse communities and contexts.
$100,099 spentof which $1,000 as grants$5,000 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,781,657.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $491 to $5.2M (+1056855%).
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.
99% of NEW PUBLIC INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (68% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
Keri Putnam
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 PUBLIC INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 PUBLIC INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
33% 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 PUBLIC INC.
“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.
Where its funders are
NEW PUBLIC INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 PUBLIC INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 234 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 234 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW PUBLIC INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW PUBLIC INC: 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 PUBLIC INC?
- NEW PUBLIC INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,091,302 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,076,193). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW PUBLIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $5,091,302 in grants to NEW PUBLIC INC.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW PUBLIC INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,076,193 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW PUBLIC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 17 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