Howard and Maryam Newman Family Foundation

OVERVIEW:  The Howard and Maryam Newman Family Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to education, health, scientific research, and the arts. It also earmarks funds for global, religious, environmental, and civil rights causes.

IP TAKE: The foundation is not very transparent and keeps a low public profile, which limits information available on its grantmaking priorities and activities. Grantseekers will need to network here.

PROFILE: The Howard and Maryam Newman Family Foundation was established in 2004. It was founded by hedge fund veteran Howard Newman and his wife Maryam, a psychotherapist. Newman worked at Warburg Pincus for more than two decades before going on to co-found Pine Brook Road Partners. The foundation does not maintain a website, which makes it difficult to locate further information on its priority areas and grantmaking strategies. Tax filings suggest that the Howard and Maryam Newman Family Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to education, health, scientific research, and the arts. It also earmarks funds for global, religious, environmental, and civil rights causes.

Grants for Higher Education, Environment, Arts and Culture, and Racial Justice and Indigenous Rights

Newman served as a president of a chairman of the Yale Alumni Fund. The couple recently gave a 7-figure gift to Yale via their foundation. Newman serves as a trustee of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, home to the Howard H. and Maryam R. Newman Chair in Plant Biology. Newman has no formal background in science, but went to Cambridge with Salk scientist Tony Hunter. 

Past grantees include Dancing Classrooms, American Museum of Natural History, City Harvest, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Congregation Emanu-El, NAMI, Northern Westchester Hospital, and Westchester Land Trust. 

Important Grant Details

Grants range from $80 to $1 million. In a recent fiscal year, the foundation gave away around $1.2 million. The Howard and Maryam Newman Family Foundation keeps a low profile and does not accept unsolicited proposals. 

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CONTACT:

Howard and Maryam Newman Family Foundation
346 Pine Brook Road
Bedford, NY 10506