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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.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$46kHealth$20kYouth Development$20kCivil Rights$13kRecreation & Sports$12kReligion$12kEducation$11kHuman Services$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $69,526, the rows itemized in this filing. The $102,289 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $32,763 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Puerto Rican Community Cen$7,500
Emiijas Hope Center$7,500
The Latin American Legal D$7,500
The Dads Foundation$7,500
Casa Cultura$7,500
Candle Light Events LLC$7,500
Trenton Pride Center Inc$7,500
UrbanPromise Rrenton Inc$6,100
Individual grant recipient$5,776
Men for HOPE$5,150
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Puerto Rican Community Cen: $8k → 11%Puerto Rican Community Cen: $6k → 11%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.
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 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
Emprendedores Inc

Education, arts and culture.

Arts & Culture
2
New Jersey Alliance for Culture Change
Health
3
Shakespeare in Clark Park

Shakespeare in Clark Park produces cultural events which bridge the gap between audiences and artists by inviting community members to take part in making and shaping our productions. Our productions are rooted in the people of…

Arts & Culture
4
Corners
Community Improvement
5
Blue Curtain a Nj NonProfit Corporation

Entertainment

Arts & Culture
6
Inner City Ensemble Inc

The arts nonprofit offers free dance and theatre training and shows to hundreds local children and teenagers in Paterson, NJ and low-cost events and presentations to the community. Our focus is on Arts, Cultural, Education, Shows &…

Arts & Culture
7
Maker Prep a Nj Nonprofit Corporation
Education
8
Endangered Kind Inc

Endangered Kind mission is to reduce gun violence using a community-driven approach that fosters trust to reach, restore, and sustain quality of life for high-risk youth and young adults ages 15-27 in the City of Philadelphia.

Human Services
9
Leaderup

Community Services and mentorship

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10
Children Theater Project

To enhance young peoples minds through education, application and exploration of the Performing Arts. It further strives to provide each child with a feeling of self-identity and purpose.

Arts & Culture
11
Teens Step Up Inc

After school enrichment program

Youth Development
12
Fellowship House of South Camden Inc

Provide opportunities for spiritual, academic, social and recreational enrichment. after school programs for children and a parent program.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latin American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Kind Collectve. 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

11 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. 11 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Puerto Rican Commun Cente: $8,000 · OtherOrchid House Cafe: $8,000 · OtherEmiijas Hope Center: $7,500 · OtherCasa Cultura: $7,500 · OtherCandle Light Events LLC: $7,500 · OtherTrenton Pride Center Inc: $7,500 · OtherFREEDOM SKATE PARK A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7,200 · OtherMuch Better Studios: $7,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherGreater Mt Zion Community: $6,800 · OtherPR Community and Friends: $6,500 · OtherTIMBUK2 ACADEMY LLC: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,776 · OtherTHA BLOCK TRENTON: $5,500 · Other+12 more: $60,150 · Other+12 moreArtworks Trenton Inc: $11,600 · Arts & CultureArtworks T…Passage Theatre Company Inc: $6,750 · Arts & CulturePassage Th…Capital Harmony Works Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCapital Ha…THE KIND COLLECTVE: $20,200 · HealthTHE KIND …URBANPROMISE TRENTON INC: $6,100 · Youth DevelopmentCULTURE IS KEY: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentLegacy International Foundation for Education Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPUERTO RICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesLATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $7,500 · Crime & LegalDADS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Civil Rights
Other$164,126Arts & Culture$23,350Health$20,200Youth Development$16,100Human Services$13,500Crime & Legal$7,500Civil Rights$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPUERTO RICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetArtworks Trenton Inc: $11,600 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDADS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPassage Theatre Company Inc: $6,750 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetURBANPROMISE TRENTON INC: $6,100 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Friends of Foundation Academy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLegacy International Foundation for Education Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetPlay Soccer Trenton INC: $5,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetCapital Harmony Works Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 PUERTO RICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Artworks Trenton Inc ↗
  • Who funds LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds DADS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Passage Theatre Company Inc ↗
  • Who funds URBANPROMISE TRENTON INC ↗
  • Who funds The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds CULTURE IS KEY ↗
  • Who funds Legacy International Foundation for Education Inc ↗
  • Who funds Play Soccer Trenton INC ↗
  • Who funds Capital Harmony Works Inc ↗

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.

Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Smith Family Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Capital City Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Capital City Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Passage Theatre Company Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Artworks Trenton Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Puerto Rican Community Center Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Capital City Community Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Capital City Community Foundation Inc 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 37 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 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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