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Catholic Human Services Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $506k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE-A-WISH NEW JERSEY | $15,000 |
| MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC | $15,000 |
| NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WILMINGTON | $15,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART | $14,999 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $14,987 |
| CISTERCIAN ABBEY OF SPENCER INC | $14,880 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELWARE | $14,698 |
| BLOOM FOR WOMEN | $14,606 |
| SETON HALL UNIVERSITY | $14,601 |
| ST ELIZABETH SCHOOL INC | $14,381 |
| CHESHIRE HOME | $14,228 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS | $14,000 |
| OASIS- A HAVEN FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN INC | $13,753 |
| THE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC | $13,750 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS IN HUNTERDON INC | $13,750 |
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, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Catholic Human Services Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 56% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
115 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 74 since wound down; 20 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k 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
- JHJOSEPH'S HOUSE OF CAMDEN LLC9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +117%
MOUNT CARMEL GUILD OF TRENTON NJ9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +37%
OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC7× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- COCONGREGATION OF HOLY CROSS PROVINCE INCone grant, 2023 · $15k
- SOSOCIETY OF THE SISTERS OF CHRISTIAN CHARITYone grant, 2020 · $15k
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF NEWARK THE MERCY HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
Mercy home provides essential services for children and adults with developmental disabilities. mercy home's mission is to ensure the quality of life for persons with developmental disabilities through the recognition of each person's…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…
The mission of our house, inc. is to provide healthy, stimulating, and inclusive environments for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities through community residences, employment services, innovative day programs,…
Mercy housing and shelter corporation provides housing assistance and supportive services to persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. mercy works to empower its clients to become independent, so they may live and work with…
Diocesan housing services was established with the purpose of providing affordable housing and housing related services for seniors and/or families earning very low, low, and moderate incomes throughout the new jersey counties of atlantic,…
Carelink community support services of new jersey's mission is to assist adult citizens of nj living with psychiatric disability in acquiring the tools necessary to live health and fulfilling lives.
To provide permanent supportive housing opportunities coupled with innovative support services empowering indivduals to live independently with dignity and to fullfull their utmost potential.
The organization was incorporated to oversee the operations of a 180 bed extended health care facility located in newark, new jersey. new community health care, inc. (the "organization") was incorporated in the state of new jersey in 1983…
Driven by the social teachings of the church,catholic charities, diocese of metuchen provides quality services to the poor, vulnerable and all people in need, and partners with families and communities to improve the quality of life.
We are an interfaith ministry to the homeless, disabled and economically disadvantaged citizens of schenectady county, building a just, hospitable and inclusive community one person at a time by affirming the dignity and addressing the…
We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cultural Impact Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
147 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. 147 of the 224 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Meals on Wheels in Hunterdon Inc ↗
- Who funds TRINITAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE OF CAMDEN LLC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT CARMEL GUILD OF TRENTON NJ ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds STS JOACHIM AND ANN CARE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds HEALTHLINK DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMANISTIC CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds FAITH KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHESHIRE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ST JOSEPH'S HOME FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds FIRST CHOICE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds IHMCENTER FOR LITERACY & GEDPROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds SAGE ELDERCARE ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION COLLEGE FOR SISTERS ↗
- Who funds HABCORE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEALING THE CHILDREN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN ↗
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: The Provident Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Td Charitable 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 Catholic Human Services Foundation 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.
- Mount Carmel Guild of Trenton Nj — 100% of income from government
- Straight and Narrow Inc — 65% of income from government
- Advance Housing Inc — 62% of income from government
- 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
- Good News Home Inc — 54% of income from government
- Habcore Inc — 50% of income from government
- Womanspace Inc — 47% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
- Family Promise of Essex County Inc — 33% of income from government
- York Street Project — 32% of income from government
- Joseph's House of Camden Llc — 32% of income from government
- Family Promise of Sussex County Inc — 32% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- Partners for Women and Justice Inc — 26% of income from government
- Mercy Center Corporation — 21% of income from government
- Vantage Health System Inc — 19% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Interfaith Caregivers of Greater Mercer County Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Access Unlimited Inc — 15% of income from government
- Catholic Family and Community Services Inc — 13% of income from government
- Midland Adult Services Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cheshire Home Inc — 6% of income from government
- St Vincent Depaul Middletown — 6% of income from government
- Opportunity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
- Turning Point Inc — 5% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
- Volunteer Center of Bergen County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
- Freedom House Inc — 4% of income from government
- Alternatives Inc — 4% of income from government
- Collier Services - Sisters of the Good Shepherd — 3% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Caldwell University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Strides Inc — 2% of income from government
- Georgian Court University — 1% of income from government
- The Arc of Essex County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sage Eldercare — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
- Samaritan Inn Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Phoenix Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Eden Autism Services Inc — 0% of income from government
- Scarc Inc — 0% of income from government
- Saint Peter's University — 0% of income from government
- Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated — 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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