· Public charity
Berson Family Supporting Foundation Inc
The organization is a supporting organization which makes grants to carry out the purposes of the jewish community foundation of greater metrowest nj, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $380k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Jersey Performing Arts Center | $220,000 |
| Jewish Community Fdtn of Greater MetroWest NJ | $160,000 |
| Yamba Malawi | $25,000 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | $25,000 |
| Caucus Educational Corp Inc | $25,000 |
| Opportunity Project Inc | $15,000 |
| Shepherds of Youth Charitable Trust | $10,000 |
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, $685k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +24% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $621k · revenue +83%- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC5× · 2017–2023 · $430k · revenue +41%
- OPOPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2025 · $408k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +253%
- NFNJ FORMER TROOPERS HERITAGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +15%
- AFArthritis Foundation Incone grant, 2018 · $14k
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 Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 30 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 NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION ↗
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- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds YAMBA MALAWI INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS OF YOUTH CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
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- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAUCUS EDUCATIONAL CORP ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds PILLAR CARE CONTINUUM ↗
- Who funds THE CODEY FUND FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds NJ FORMER TROOPERS HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds New York University ↗
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- Who funds THE GREATER NEWARK HOLIDAY FUND ↗
- Who funds Daughters of Israel Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
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- Who funds THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Sobel Family Supporting Foundation Inc · The McJ Amelior Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Berson Family Supporting 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.
- Kessler Foundation Inc — 54% of income from government
- Opportunity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service of Metrowest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Pillar Care Continuum — 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% 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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