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Columbia Bank 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k253 grants · $560k
- $10k–50k65 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL PASSAIC COUNTY | $80,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR EASTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW JERSEY | $30,000 |
| THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC | $28,500 |
| MONMOUTH COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $26,000 |
| HISPANIC MULTI PURPOSE CENTER | $25,000 |
| NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| CENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RINGOES UAW URBAN RENEWAL HOUSING CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| EPIC FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY | $23,500 |
| NEW HOPE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $23,250 |
| ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| THE PHOENIX CENTER INC | $21,941 |
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 (FY18–25, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% 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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
609 repeat relationships — 244 still active in FY2025, 365 since wound down; 68 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $346k 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
- PHPATERSON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC SUBSIDIARY7× · 2019–2025 · $377k · revenue +35%
- CICUMACECHO INC8× · 2018–2025 · $314k · revenue +87%
OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC8× · 2018–2025 · $278k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $150k
- FLFAIR LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $102k · revenue +9%
- HPHADDONFIELD PLAYS AND PLAYERSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $87k · revenue +570%
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 provide food, clothing, household goods and other services to people in need who live in montclair, nj and other neighboring communities in essex county
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.
The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…
To recruit volunteers to provide non-professional supportive home care services to the frail, the ederly, the disabled and the homebound, enabling them to live independently. volunteers provide all services including: medical…
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.
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
To provide support and assistance to individuals with developmental and related disabilities and to the families that care for them.
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…
Provide peer support for families with children that have behavioral, mental, developmental and substance use challanges, as well as raisng awarness of these needs throughout monmouth county and to appropriate state legislators.
Njcu is a membership organization of low and moderate income families focusing on public education, living wage jobs, worker rights, foreclosures and community justice issues through community outreach and education programs & works with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Visions and Pathways a Nj Nonprofit Corporation and the most unlike its peers is William B Mawhinney Memorial Ambulance Corporation. 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
820 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. 820 of the 1,545 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 PATERSON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds CUMACECHO INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Newbridge Services Inc ↗
- Who funds EVA'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS HEART MINISTRY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Christian Health Care Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PATERSON AND PASSAIC INC ↗
- Who funds REED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Welfare Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TABLE TO TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds POMPTON LAKES EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON AVE - CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM FOR LIVING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HADDONFIELD PLAYS AND PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITIES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE VALERIE FUND ↗
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: Pseg Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation Inc · Kearnybank Foundation Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Alfred N Sanzari Family Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc
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 Columbia Bank 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.
- Latin American Economic Development Association Inc — 100% of income from government
- Center for Family Services — 73% of income from government
- Center for Hope and Safety Inc — 69% of income from government
- Community Health Law Project Inc — 69% of income from government
- Prevention Links Inc — 66% of income from government
- 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
- La Casa De Don Pedro Inc — 58% of income from government
- South Ward Alliance — 57% of income from government
- Family Resource Network Inc — 47% of income from government
- Union County Economic Development Corp — 47% of income from government
- United Community Corporation — 45% of income from government
- Housing Partnership for Morris County Inc — 43% of income from government
- Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
- York Street Project — 32% of income from government
- Joseph's House of Camden Llc — 32% of income from government
- The Waterfront Project Inc — 32% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Garden State Community Development Corporation — 30% of income from government
- Child Focus Inc — 29% of income from government
- Cumacecho Inc — 25% of income from government
- Newbridge Services Inc — 24% of income from government
- Visions and Pathways a Nj Nonprofit Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Abilities of Northwest Jersey Inc — 22% of income from government
- Vantage Health System Inc — 19% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Garfield Inc — 19% of income from government
- Financial Wellness Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey Inc — 19% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Family Promise of Morris County Inc — 17% of income from government
- Women's Rights Information Center — 16% of income from government
- Community Access Unlimited Inc — 15% of income from government
- Adler Aphasia Center — 12% of income from government
- The Ritz Theater Company Inc — 11% of income from government
- New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc — 9% of income from government
- Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in — 9% of income from government
- Hyacinth Aids Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
- Youth Consultation Service Inc — 6% of income from government
- West Bergen Mental Healthcare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hope Christian Services — 3% of income from government
- Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/a United Way of Greater Newark — 2% of income from government
- Family and Children's Service Inc of Monmouth County — 2% of income from government
- Center for Hope Hospice Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries — 2% of income from government
- Children's Aid and Family Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Share Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sierra House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Christian Health Care Center — 0% of income from government
- Servants Heart Ministry Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wyckoff Family Ymca — 0% of income from government
- The Phoenix Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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