· Public charity
Affinity Federal Credit Union Foundation
To provide members and communities with solutions to improve financial wellness, educational programs that enable self-sufficiency, and support that ensures access to essential healthcare services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $6,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $160,209 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $154,209 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Visions and Pathways | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CHCommunity Hope Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $94k · revenue +7%
- SPST PETER'S FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +81%
- MCMORRIS COUNTY ORGANIZATION FOR HISPANIC AFFAIRS INC2× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +108%
Funded once
Americas Grow-A-Rowgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $76k · revenue +45%- HSHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INCone grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue +18%
- NNNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INCone grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to increase local services and resources for the homeless. miph provides affordable permanent housing in central new jersey, giving families a stable place to live while they prepare for their lives free from…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Carelink community support services of new jersey's mission is to assist adult citizens of nj living with psychiatric disability in acquiring the tools necessary to live health and fulfilling lives.
The organization's mission is to make the critical connection between individuals and families seeking health and/or human services and the organizations best able to meet their needs.
Foster and encourage self-help programs to enhance the local business climate, provide administrative and other services to benefit business, employees, residents and consumers and promote and preserve the cultural, historic, touristic and…
Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.
To build the power of new jersey's nonprofit community to improve the quality of life for all people of our state.
The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by promoting…
Nourish.nj provides immediate access to healthy food as the first step toward a stable future. as a center of support, we connect our neighbors to essential community resources and provide direct services to address the root causes of…
Provides free legal assistance in non-criminal proceedings or matters to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance in mercer county, middlesex county, and union county, new jersey
Established in 1993, jersey cares is a nonprofit organization dedicated to volunteerism and civic engagement in new jersey. we engage individuals, families, community groups, and corporations in a broad spectrum of volunteer opportunities…
Promotes empowerment of low and middle income people through research, education, and training around public policy issues and direct counseling services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Jersey Coalition for Financial Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Community Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Americas Grow-A-Row ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISIONS AND PATHWAYS A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN DISASTER INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS COUNTY ORGANIZATION FOR HISPANIC AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY COALITION FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Elijahs Promise Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Tyler Foundation · Magyarbank Charitable Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Atlantic Health System Inc Group Return · Charities Aid Foundation America · Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Affinity Federal Credit Union Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
- Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc — 38% of income from government
- Visions and Pathways a Nj Nonprofit Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Homeless Solutions Inc — 6% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
- Elijahs Promise Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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