· Private foundation
Bbb for Life 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.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETHEL AME CHURCH | $40,000 |
| MARKET STREET MISSION INC | $7,500 |
| LUNCH BREAK | $5,000 |
| 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND | $4,500 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF MONMOUTH COUN | $4,250 |
| HABCORE | $4,000 |
| ENOSIS THE LEADERSHIP NETWORK | $3,000 |
| FREEHOLD AREA OPEN DOOR INC | $3,000 |
| MERCY CENTER | $3,000 |
| OCEANS FAMILY SUCCESS CENTER | $2,700 |
| INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| OPEN DOOR RECOVERY CENTER | $2,000 |
| YOUTH DREAMERS INC | $2,000 |
| JERSEY CITY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% 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 +150% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
LUNCH BREAK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +251%
HABCORE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +150%- ININTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC5× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- RRINGSIDEone grant, 2018 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- RBRED BANK MENS CLUBone grant, 2022 · $13k
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.
To provide food, clothing, household goods and other services to people in need who live in montclair, nj and other neighboring communities in essex county
The organizaton operates daily and weekly food pantries in bridgewater, bound brook, somerville, manville, north plainfield and the va in lyons(all in somerest county, new jersey). the organization meets emergency food needs on a daily…
To address food insecurity in Hudson County NJ
Our mission is to promote the health and well-being of our Hunterdon County community. We offer choices of nutritious foods and essentials, foster resource connections, provide tailored programming, and respect the dignity of our neighbors…
Provides services and programs for the relief for the poor, distressed, or underprivileged for the residents of cape may county, nj
Provide food, shelter and instruction to those individuals and families in need within the community. Promote a pathway to self sufficiency which includes income stabilization and permanent housing.
To provide food and transitional housing to low income/homeless families and individuals in franklin and surrounding counties in pa
Provide emergency shelter for individuals who have become homeless, and a community meal program 7 days per week and social services case management and referrals as requested.
Prevent homelessness on lower cape cod
When a family is in crisis, Bridges is there to offer support by providing respite and host homes for children in our community. Children visit respite homes for several hours after school or on weekends to enjoy the benefit of a nurturing…
Midland's Open Door (MOD) operates two crisis shelters, one for women and children and one for men. MOD's programs are designed to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by providing a safe and loving environment where each…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Neighbors Inc and the most unlike its peers is Building Bridges Programs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 35 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 LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds HABCORE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MERCY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds Freehold Area Open Door Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUR GRANDMOTHERS CUPBOARD ↗
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: Oceanfirst Foundation · The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Stone Foundation of New Jersey · The Amboy Foundation · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey
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 Bbb for Life 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.
- 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
- Habcore Inc — 50% of income from government
- Mercy Center Corporation — 21% of income from government
- Interfaith Neighbors Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% 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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