· Private foundation
AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of New Jersey, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 71 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 41 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k34 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $640k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lafayette College | $1,510,000 |
| United Way of Morris County | $75,000 |
| Iraq Star Inc | $65,000 |
| United Way of Sussex County | $50,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $50,000 |
| Cure Alzheimers Fund | $50,000 |
| Morristown Memorial Health Foundati | $50,000 |
| Salvation Army - National Headquart | $50,000 |
| Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundati | $50,000 |
| Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund | $50,000 |
| Marian Sutherland Kirby Library | $50,000 |
| USO | $50,000 |
| Community Theatre | $50,000 |
| Villanova Univ College of Nursing | $45,000 |
| Wilkes University | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $385k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
110 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2019, 43 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $307k 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
- LCLAFAYETTE COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +28%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +227%
- GSGARDEN STATE INITIATIVE INC6× · 2018–2025 · $350k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- LTLITTLE THEATRE OF WILKES-BARREone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +25%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- PBPALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +103%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Government Accountability Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ralston Cider Mill a Nj Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
85 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. 85 of the 154 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 FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARDEN STATE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIAN SUTHERLAND KIRBY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds KARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds America's Future Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
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 · Donors Trust Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Ken W Davis Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust · The Armstrong Foundation
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 AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc 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.
- The Morris Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Center for Prevention & Counseling — 4% of income from government
- Independence for Veterans Inc — 0% of income from government
- Blair Academy — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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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