· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX CTY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY DAY NURSERY | $45,000 |
| LUNA | $44,000 |
| CHILDREN'S AID & FAMILY SERVICES | $38,000 |
| ACHIEVE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH ORANGE | $36,000 |
| ISAIAH HOUSE | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| SO ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $30,000 |
| Jersey Explorer Children's Museum | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFAMILY CONNECTIONS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $905k · revenue +130%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $326k · revenue +78%
- 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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 54 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Children's Foundation of the Oranges funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Children's Foundation of the Oranges. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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