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Capital City Community Foundation Inc
We are a community foundation whose mission is making Trenton even better through community engagement, building pride, and community focused giving. We fund grassroots projects and groups doing innovative and inspiring work.
- $102k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $70k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 14
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Capital City Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $70k | 90% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $105k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $68k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Kind Collectve | $20,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Puerto Rican Community Center Inc | $13,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Artworks Trenton Inc | $11,600 | 1 | 2% |
| Orchid House Cafe | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Latin American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Emiijas Hope Center | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Casa Cultura | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Trenton Pride Center Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Dads Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Freedom Skate Park a Nj Nonprofit Corporation | $7,200 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 26 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Kind Collectve | $20,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Puerto Rican Community Center Inc | $13,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Artworks Trenton Inc | $11,600 | 1 | 2% |
| Orchid House Cafe | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Latin American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Emiijas Hope Center | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Casa Cultura | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Trenton Pride Center Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Dads Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Freedom Skate Park a Nj Nonprofit Corporation | $7,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Much Better Studios | $7,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Mt Zion Community | $6,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Passage Theatre Company Inc | $6,750 | 1 | 1% |
| Urbanpromise Trenton Inc | $6,100 | 1 | 1% |
| Timbuk2 Academy LLC | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tha Block Trenton | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Men for Hope | $5,150 | 1 | n/a |
| The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Culture Is Key | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Positive Black Images LLC | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| G-Moms | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beauty to the Block Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Generation of a New Era Fo | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Legacy International Foundation for Education Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Play Soccer Trenton INC | $5,000 | 1 | 49% |
| Capital Harmony Works Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Capital City Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Capital City Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Capital City Community Foundation Inc give?
- Capital City Community Foundation Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $69,526, out of $102,289 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Capital City Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Health (11%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Capital City Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Kind Collectve ($20k), Puerto Rican Community Center Inc ($14k), Artworks Trenton Inc ($12k).
- Does Capital City Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Capital City Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Smith Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Capital City Community Foundation Inc based?
- Capital City Community Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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