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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.

$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$159kEducation$146kFood & Nutrition$108kHuman Services$81kCommunity Improvement$65kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kHealth$18kReligion$15k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $6,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $160,209 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $154,209 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$647k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Visions and Pathways$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%Norwescap: $65k → 4%Community Hope Inc: $64k → 4%NEW JERSEY VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATION: $21k → 7%New Jersey Coalition for Financial Education: $13k → 11%Americas Grow-a-Row: $76k → 4%COMMUNITY HOPE: $8k → 4%VISION AND PATHWAYS: $13k → 5%COMMUNITY HOPE: $8k → 4%VISIONS AND PATHWAYS: $8k → 5%COMMUNITY HOPE: $8k → 4%Visions and Pathways: $8k → 5%COMMUNITY HOPE: $8k → 4%Visions and Pathways: $7k → 5%Morris County Organization for Hispanic Affairs: $10k → 4%Visions and Pathways: $6k → 5%MORRIS COUNTY ORGANIZATION FOR HISPANIC AFFAIRS: $10k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$219k · 6 repeat orgs$393k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$219k
$393k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CH
    Community Hope Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $94k · revenue +7%
  • SP
    ST PETER'S FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +81%
  • MC
    MORRIS COUNTY ORGANIZATION FOR HISPANIC AFFAIRS INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • Americas Grow-A-Rowgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $76k · revenue +45%
  • HS
    HOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue +25%
  • NN
    NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue +16%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Making It Possible to End Homelessness Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
2
Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture
3
Carelink Community Support Services Nj

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.

Health
4
Nj 2-1-1 Partnership a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation

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.

Human Services
5
Morristown Partners Inc T/a Morristown Partnership

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…

Community Improvement
6
League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

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7
New Jersey Center for Nonprofits Inc

To build the power of new jersey's nonprofit community to improve the quality of life for all people of our state.

Philanthropy
8
Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

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…

—
9
Nourishnj Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Central Jersey Legal Services Inc

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

Crime & Legal
11
Jersey Cares Inc

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…

—
12
New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc

Promotes empowerment of low and middle income people through research, education, and training around public policy issues and direct counseling services.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Hope Inc: $94,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Hope IncAmericas Grow-A-Row: $75,500 · Human ServicesAmericas Grow-A-RowNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INCVISIONS AND PATHWAYS A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $40,500 · Human ServicesVISIONS AND PATHWAYS A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATIONNEW JERSEY VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN DISASTER INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesNEW JERSEY VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN DISASTER INCMORRIS COUNTY ORGANIZATION FOR HISPANIC AFFAIRS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesMORRIS COUNTY ORGANIZATION FOR HISPANIC AFFAIRS INCNEW JERSEY COALITION FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION: $13,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $65,000 · OtherHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INCST PETER'S FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherST PETER'S FOUNDATIONMIDLAND SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · OtherMIDLAND SCHOOL INCSaint Peter's Foundation: $15,000 · OtherSaint Peter's FoundationSomerset County YMCA: $7,500 · OtherSomerset County YMCARUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUN…MIDLAND FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationMIDLAND FOUNDATIONMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $5,500 · EducationLUNCH BREAK INC: $19,000 · Food & NutritionElijahs Promise Inc: $5,500 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$329,000Other$132,500Education$125,500Food & Nutrition$24,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Hope Inc: $94,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAmericas Grow-A-Row: $75,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $65,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $65,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDLAND FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetVISIONS AND PATHWAYS A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $40,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetST PETER'S FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN DISASTER INC: $21,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMORRIS COUNTY ORGANIZATION FOR HISPANIC AFFAIRS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMIDLAND SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLUNCH BREAK INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW JERSEY COALITION FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION: $13,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetElijahs Promise Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …The Tyler FoundationMagyarbank Charitable…The Provident Bank Fo…Columbia Bank Foundat…Investors Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…Atlantic Health Syste…Charities Aid Foundat…Community Food Bank O…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Affinity Federal Credit Union Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Affinity Federal Credit Union Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Affinity Federal Credit Union Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Affinity Federal Credit Union Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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