Louisiana · Nonprofit
THE NEWMAN IDEA
THE NEWMAN IDEA (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,998 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($78,485). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $-56695
What The Newman Idea does
Mission
The Newman Idea (tni) is a religious and educational non-profit 501c(3) inspired by st. John henry newman's profound vision of integrity: a gift given in faith that unifies ideas, persons, and cultures into a whole. Tni seeks to communicate this gift of integrity to college and high school students and the faithful through integral knowledge, formation, and mission.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Newman Idea's vision arises from the laity working alongside religious and the hierarchy, reflecting the mission of st. Benedict, the learning of st. Dominic, the practicality of st. Ignatius, the spirit of st. Philip neri, and the integrity of st. John henry newman. Tni will establish ikon institutes which teach academic courses, form students in residence where possible, and reach out to the wider catholic community. The tni plan is to launch at least 5 ikons in the south and midwest within the next 5 years. Within the next 10 years we hope to reach at least 25,000 college students. Each institute will be self-sustaining and communicate the gift of integrity by: "teaching integral knowledge that unifies students' faith with their learning through accredited college courses, symposia and conferences;"offering integral formation through encouraging sacrificial leadership, a profound interior life, and a habit of life conducive to community living; "building an integral mission for catholics through daily communal prayer and worship, discernment, and being faithful to god's will and mission for their lives.
$16,346 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,346.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $76k to $25k (−67%).
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.
56% of THE NEWMAN IDEA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $78k → $23.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 THE NEWMAN IDEA’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
THE NEWMAN IDEA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 THE NEWMAN IDEA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 74% · 2020 48% · 2021 71% · 2022 52% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
86% of THE NEWMAN IDEA'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 $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE NEWMAN IDEA's revenue fell 79% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE NEWMAN IDEA
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 Louisiana
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NEWMAN IDEA: 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 THE NEWMAN IDEA?
- THE NEWMAN IDEA (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,998 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($78,485). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE NEWMAN IDEA have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $126,998 in grants to THE NEWMAN IDEA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NEWMAN IDEA?
- THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $78,485 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NEWMAN IDEA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 5 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