Connecticut · Nonprofit
NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,116 to it, the largest being THE JOYCE FOUNDATION ($130,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $186k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $487k
- Net assets
- $439k
What Newtown Action Alliance Foundation does
Mission
Newtown Action Alliance Foundation (NAAF) supports families and survivors directly impacted by gun violence and works with allies in the Gun Violence Prevention movement from urban, suburban and rural communities. NAAF works to change the conversation and the culture to end gun violence through educational and cultural programs that honor the victims and provide support for the families, survivors and communities impacted.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The 13th Annual National Vigil for all victims of Gun Violence
$89,452 spentof which $90,350 as grants74% of program spendingStatewide Gun Buyback and Safe Giveaway Day.
$28,869 spentof which $10,627 as grants24% of program spendingNAAF supports and provides resources for the Junior Newtown Action Alliance (Jr. NAA) members for their efforts to transform their tragedy into positive cultural change. The students work to raise awareness about gun-violence prevention through various educational activities and actions.
$1,797 spentof which $733 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $120,118.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $235k to $296k (+26%).
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.
100% of NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Po Murray
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $127k → $66k.
8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION’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
NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
70% 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 NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 79% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 60% · 2022 61% · 2023 46% — 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
0% of NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
52% of NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $236k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $252k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION?
- NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,116 to it, the largest being THE JOYCE FOUNDATION ($130,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $487,116 in grants to NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION?
- THE JOYCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2018–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing