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Blanche M & George L Watts Mountainside Comm Fdtn at a glance

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Blanche M & George L Watts Mountainside Comm Fdtn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$258k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0178% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$661kHuman Services$191kHealth$120kPhilanthropy$59kHousing & Shelter$37kReligion$34kYouth Development$23kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$8,600
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sage$50,000
Individual grant recipient$49,097
Individual grant recipient$26,628
Mountainside Public Library$20,000
Childrens Specialized Hospital$15,000
Rutgers University$15,000
Mountainside Public Schools$14,000
Imagine$10,000
Community Foundation of NJ$10,000
Deerfield School$8,600
Caring Contact$7,500
Jewish Family Service of Central NJ$7,500
NJIT$5,000
Loyola University$5,000
Quinnipiac University$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 12% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Community Foundation of NJ: $37k → 4%Community Foundation of NJ: $20k → 4%Sage: $50k → 10%Sage: $50k → 10%Sage: $45k → 10%Rutgers University: $18k → 16%Rutgers University: $18k → 16%Sage Elder Care: $45k → 10%Rutgers University: $15k → 16%Sage: $45k → 10%Sage: $45k → 10%Sage Elder Care: $45k → 10%Sage Elder Care: $40k → 10%Mountainside Rescue Squad: $65k → 10%Mountainside Rescue Squad: $49k → 10%Deerfield School: $45k → 10%Mountainside Public Schools: $33k → 10%Mountainside Rescue Squad: $30k → 10%Mountainside Fire Department: $30k → 10%Mountainside Fire Department: $29k → 10%Mountainside Public Library: $28k → 10%Mountainside Fire Department: $27k → 10%Borough of Mountainside: $26k → 10%Mountainside School District: $26k → 10%Mountainside School District: $25k → 10%Mountainside Rescue Squad: $23k → 10%Mountainside Public Schools: $22k → 10%Mountainside Public Library: $20k → 10%Deerfield School: $19k → 10%Mountainside Historic Preservation: $18k → 10%Mountainside Public Library: $17k → 10%Mountainside Rescue Squad: $17k → 10%Deerfield School: $17k → 10%Childrens Specialized Hospital: $15k → 10%Childrens Specialized Hospital: $15k → 10%Childrens Specialized Hospital: $15k → 10%Church of our Lady of Lourdes: $15k → 10%Chidrens Specialized Hospital: $15k → 10%Childrens Specialized Hospital: $15k → 10%Childrens Specialized Hospital: $15k → 10%Childrens Specialized Hospital: $15k → 10%Mountainside Fire Department: $15k → 10%Mountainside Public Schools: $14k → 10%Mountainside Rescue Squad: $14k → 10%Mountainside Fire Department: $12k → 10%Deerfield School: $12k → 10%Deerfield School: $11k → 10%Mountainside Fire Department: $10k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 46 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
17

Total granted

$1.8M
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+48%

Still filing today

33%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
EducationHealthReligionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CW
    CONTACT WE CARE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +284%
  • FAMILY PROMISE INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +483%
  • QU
    QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
  • TM
    Trailside Museum Association
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • MU
    MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +48%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
5
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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6
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
7
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
10
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
11
Union Institute & University

Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…

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12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology; the most unlike its peers is Mountainside Restoration Committee Dba Hetfield House. 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

18 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. 18 of the 64 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sage: $235,000 · OtherSageIndividual grant recipient: $197,862 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $128,576 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDeerfield School: $125,435 · OtherDeerfield SchoolMountainside Public Library: $85,381 · OtherMountainside Public LibraryMountainside Public Schools: $69,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of NJ: $67,000 · OtherRutgers University: $62,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $52,189 · OtherMountainside School District: $51,000 · Other+42 more: $356,615 · Other+42 moreSAGE ELDERCARE: $130,000 · EducationSAGE ELDERCA…QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationQUINNIPIAC U…Elon University: $15,000 · EducationElon Univers…Belmont University: $12,000 · EducationBelmont Univ…THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $12,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $9,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL: $105,250 · HealthCONTACT WE CARE INC: $32,500 · ReligionFAMILY PROMISE INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentNorthwestern University: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,430,058Education$208,000Health$105,250Religion$32,500Housing & Shelter$30,000Youth Development$15,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAGE ELDERCARE: $130,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL: $105,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCONTACT WE CARE INC: $32,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetYouth & Family Counseling Service Inc: $13,750 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont University: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAINSIDE RESTORATION COMMITTEE DBA HETFIELD HOUSE: $7,700 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds SAGE ELDERCARE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds CONTACT WE CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds Elon University ↗
  • Who funds CITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Youth & Family Counseling Service Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAINSIDE RESTORATION COMMITTEE DBA HETFIELD HOUSE ↗

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.

The Westfield Foundat…Ej Grassmann TrustThe Hyde and Watson F…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Westfield FoundationNJ15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Westfield Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Blanche M & George L Watts Mountainside Comm Fdtn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blanche M & George L Watts Mountainside Comm Fdtn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj: 1% of income from government
  • Sage Eldercare: 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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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Find your warmest path to Blanche M & George L Watts Mountainside Comm Fdtn 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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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