· Private foundation
Children's Foundation of the Oranges
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of Children's Foundation of the Oranges’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $577k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $455k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY CONNECTIONS | $100,000 |
| Metro YMCA ORANGES OPERATING | $100,000 |
| VALLEY SETTLEMENT HOUSE CAMP | $90,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX CTY | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY DAY NURSERY | $45,000 |
| LUNA | $44,000 |
| CHILDREN'S AID & FAMILY SERVICES | $38,000 |
| ACHIEVE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH ORANGE | $36,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| ISAIAH HOUSE | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| SO ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $30,000 |
| Jersey Explorer Children's Museum | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $913k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- FCFAMILY CONNECTIONS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $905k · revenue +130%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $326k · revenue +136%
- CACHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $246k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- WOWEST ORANGE COMM HOUSE OPERATINGone grant, 2017 · $25k
- HEHARMONY EDUCATION & LIFE PARTNERSone grant, 2017 · $8k
- GSGIRL SCOUTSone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
Integrity is committed to help individuals and families through an effective and measurable system of comprehensive therapeutic community addictions treatment, mental health services, and recovery support in a way that brings about…
To deliver quality and compassionate behavioral health services to individuals and families all the time through a trauma informed care philosophy and approach.
Ironbound community corporation's mission is to engage and empower individuals, families and groups in realizing their aspirations and, together, work to create a just, vibrant and sustainable community.
The mission of jersey city community charter school (jcccs) is to provide each student with innovative learning experiences that develop positive intellectual, social, and physical outcomes. jcccs is focused on promoting self-directed,…
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
The mission of eden autism services is to improve the lives of people with autism: one individual at a time; one family at a time; one community at a time.
Alternatives, inc was established to provide comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.
To empower and support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. this organization will utilize all its resources to ensure that our individuals served, their families and all people with intellectual and…
The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.
Institute for educational achievement is a private, non-profit program offering educational programming,home programming, adult life skills training to individuals with autism. the institute provides research-based treatment, educational…
The organization's mission is to give each child a warm and safe environment encouraging the development of academic, emotional, social and self regulation skills, which fosters a healthy, independent and strong self image. our teachers…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Summit Speech School and the most unlike its peers is Helen Keller International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 54 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 FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LUNA STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WRITE ON SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BASS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Independence A Family of Services ↗
- Who funds LINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION ↗
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 Hyde and Watson Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Gertrude L Hirsch Charitable Trust · George a Ohl Jr Trust · Kearnybank Foundation Inc · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · New Jersey Council For The Humanities
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 Children's Foundation of the Oranges 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.
- Family Connections Inc — 83% of income from government
- Family Promise of Essex County Inc — 33% of income from government
- Isaiah House Inc — 21% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- Children's Aid and Family Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Arc of Essex County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pillar Care Continuum — 1% of income from government
- Sierra House Inc — 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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