· Private foundation
Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k73 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $634k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YEAR UP INC | $500,000 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $300,000 |
| QUEENS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $300,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY | $100,000 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT | $100,000 |
| ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC | $100,000 |
| NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT | $100,000 |
| PURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC | $100,000 |
| THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC | $75,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS | $50,000 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF NEW JERSEY INC | $50,000 |
| KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC | $50,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| PER SCHOLAS INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $926k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc’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, 41% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 46% — more 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 +18% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
162 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 91 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $429k 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
- QEQUEENS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION2× · 2023–2024 · $550k · revenue +41%
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY2× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +27%
- PTPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TTTHE TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k
- OFOVERLOOK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -25%
- WIWingsForGrowth Incone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -35%
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.
To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.
New jersey institute for social justice (the institute), a public charity, is a newark-based urban research and advocacy organization dedicated to the advancement of new jersey's urban areas and residents.
Abilities solutions is a 501(c)(3), incorporated in 1963 in new jersey to provide employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities and other barriers to full participation in the workforce. we achive our goals by partenering with…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
To identify children's needs through research, policy and legal analysis, to raise awareness of those needs through strategic communications, and to work with elected officials and other decision-makers to enact effective responses.
The mission of the central jersey community development corporation is to rebuild communities, one family at a time by improving the social, educational, and economic conditions in targeted areas throughout the state of new jersey
This agency is dedicated to excellence in mental healthcare and has commitment to life- long support needed by individuals and their families to ensure that they achieve their full potential to improve the quality of their lives.
To build the skills of individuals with varying abilities and developmental needs, by providing clinical treatment, community integration, vocational training and work opportunities in order to achieve and maintain productive lives.
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 help the community to work through personal outreach services, workshops to prepare job seekers, intensive services, for qualified customers to administer job training programs for youths and unskilled adults who are economically…
Promoting, assisting and supporting the sustainability and growth of casa programs in new jersey. casa programs promote the protection of abused and neglected children by using trained volunteers to advocate for these children in courts…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edge New Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Opera At Florham 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
463 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. 463 of the 599 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 LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUS NJ INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR A BETTER TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN BAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds GREATER TRENTON INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL ↗
- Who funds African-American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey ↗
- Who funds All Star Code Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds HUDSON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUDSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD ↗
- Who funds ST NICKS ALLIANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE STREET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FUTURES AND OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NJAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF TRENTON ↗
- Who funds Elijahs Promise Inc ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Association On Correction ↗
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: Investors Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Ej Grassmann Trust · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Catholic Human Services 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 Citizens Philanthropic 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.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Mount Carmel Guild of Trenton Nj — 100% of income from government
- Family Connections Inc — 83% of income from government
- Elizabeth Development Company of New Jersey — 71% of income from government
- Acenda Inc Dba Acenda Integrated Health — 69% of income from government
- Crossroads of the American Revolution Association Inc — 62% of income from government
- O League — 49% of income from government
- Anchor House Inc — 45% of income from government
- Alice Paul Institute Inc — 43% of income from government
- Revive South Jersey — 38% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Hispa Inc — 26% of income from government
- Choose New Jersey Inc — 25% of income from government
- Urban League of Union County — 22% of income from government
- Mercy Center Corporation — 21% of income from government
- Urban League of Essex County — 20% of income from government
- Interfaith Caregivers of Greater Mercer County Inc — 18% of income from government
- Village Charter School — 10% of income from government
- Passage Theatre Company Inc — 10% of income from government
- New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc — 9% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- The Arcmercer Inc — 9% of income from government
- United Way of Greater Mercer County — 8% of income from government
- Opportunity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
- Arts Council of Princeton — 6% of income from government
- New Jersey Association On Correction — 4% of income from government
- Project Freedom Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service of Metrowest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Montclair Film Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- Branch Brook Park Alliance Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Diocese of Trenton — 2% of income from government
- Count Basie Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Arcdiocese of Newark — 1% of income from government
- Reeves - Reed Arboretum — 1% of income from government
- Elijahs Promise Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rider University — 1% of income from government
- Two River Theatre Company Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- The College of New Jersey Foundation 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.