· Community foundation
Capital City Community Foundation Inc
We support grassroots community-improvement projects in Trenton, NJ, and administer neighborhood-specific community grants in three Trenton neighborhoods in partnership with Isles, Inc.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of Capital City Community Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $104,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $133,619 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,869 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Kind Collective | $20,200 |
| ArtWorks Trenton | $11,600 |
| Orchid House Cafe | $8,000 |
| Freedom Skate Park | $7,200 |
| Much Better Studios | $7,200 |
| Greater Mt Zion Community | $6,800 |
| Passage Theatre | $6,750 |
| Puerto Rican Community Cen | $6,000 |
| Timbuk2 Academy | $6,000 |
| Generation of a New Era Fo | $5,000 |
| Positive Black Images LLC | $5,000 |
| Capital Harmony Works | $5,000 |
| LIFE | $5,000 |
| Banda Punta de Lanza de Tr | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $6k) 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 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.
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.
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 &…
Education, arts and culture.
Entertainment
The Performing Arts Conservatory, Inc. was organized in order to reach youth in our community. This enrichment program targets youth in grades 6-12. We provide an environment where students will grow intellectually focusing on their gifts…
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.
Cultural and educational performances
Provide high quality low cost performing arts classes to underserved children in Harlem and the surrounding neigborhoods.
Produce quality theatrical programming while providing an educational enviroment to unify the arts community, inspire artistic development, and offer classes for youth interested in theater.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Play Soccer Trenton Inc and 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.
8 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. 8 of the 28 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 Artworks Trenton Inc ↗
- Who funds Passage Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds PUERTO RICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Capital Harmony Works Inc ↗
- Who funds CULTURE IS KEY ↗
- Who funds The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Play Soccer Trenton INC ↗
- Who funds Legacy International Foundation for Education Inc ↗
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: 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
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 Capital City Community 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.
- 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
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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