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Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation

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.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$17,132
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$317k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EnvironmentFood & NutritionArts & Culture
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$50k67%
FY20241$13k0%
FY20233$15k33%
FY20224$36k75%
FY20218$50kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$38kFood & Nutrition$37kScience & Tech$17kHuman Services$14kEnvironment$10kInternational$10kArts & Culture$10kHealth$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ramapo College Foundation$37,30040%
Table to Table Inc$24,05910%
Center for Food Action in New Jersey$12,88130%
Mahwah Museum Society Inc$10,000146%
Wise Tropics Inc$9,91614%
Wells Mountain Initiative Inc$9,00021%
Oasis - a Haven for Women & Children Inc$5,50010%
Disaster Aid USA Inc$5,00011%
Eva's Village Inc$3,00010%
Shelterbox USA Inc$1,0001n/a
Street 2 Street$1,0001n/a
Covenant House New Jersey Inc$50010%
Mahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRamapo College Foundation: $37,300 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTable to Table Inc: $24,059 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Food Action in New Jersey: $12,881 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMahwah Museum Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetWise Tropics Inc: $9,916 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWells Mountain Initiative Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOasis - a Haven for Women & Children Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDisaster Aid USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEva's Village Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House New Jersey Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable 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.

About Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation

How much does Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation give?
Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $50,482 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Science & Tech (10%).
Who are Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Ramapo College Foundation ($37k), Table to Table Inc ($24k), Center for Food Action in New Jersey ($13k).
Does Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation based?
Bergen Highlandsramsey Charitable Foundation is based in NJ.

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 18 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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