· Community foundation
Community Foundation of New Jersey
To connect donors to organizations, issues and geographic areas important to them over time, to provide leadership and support to donors, community organizations, leaders and foundations to achieve the art of lasting philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1,321 grants below total $93,836,406 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $100,567,062 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,730,656 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k229 grants · $1.6M
- $10k–50k793 grants · $15M
- $50k–250k243 grants · $22M
- $250k+56 grants · $55M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GBSC FOUNDATION | $14,250,000 |
| UNDERSTOOD FOR ALL INC | $4,800,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR BEN GURION UNIVERSITY | $2,557,000 |
| NATIONAL WINTER ACTIVITY CENTER | $2,248,130 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $1,570,400 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER METROWEST | $1,338,448 |
| COMMUNITY FOODBANK OF NEW JERSEY | $1,119,059 |
| OVERLOOK FOUNDATION | $1,100,000 |
| GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES COUNCIL DBA GEOTHERMAL RISING | $1,086,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION | $1,062,500 |
| SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY | $1,018,000 |
| DREW UNIVERSITY | $1,015,500 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN | $1,005,000 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $1,001,000 |
| TEACHING LAB | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $29.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
1375 repeat relationships — 852 still active in FY2024, 523 since wound down; 131 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29M 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
- CFCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +97%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +21%- FVFROST VALLEY YMCA8× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +42%
Funded once
- RFROSELLE FOURSQUARE CHURCH2× · 2021–2022 · $1.6M
- EREvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houstonone grant, 2017 · $1.5M · revenue +9%
- JJJOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1.3M · revenue +50% · 56% of their budget
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.
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.
To support the delivery of health care services to patients in the new york metropolitan area.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Advances efforts in best practices, innovation, research and partnerships to strengthen non-profit jewish human service agencies so they can better serve their communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Cnjg supports and elevates new jersey's philanthropic community through shared learning, collaborative and trusting relationships, networking building, and leadership.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Inspired by jewish values, the national council of jewish women is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families, and by safeguarding…
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Bergen County and the most unlike its peers is Backcountry Discovery Routes. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. 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 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
1717 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. 1717 of the 2,000 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 UNDERSTOOD FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WINTER ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GBSC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds TEAMFUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FROST VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Newark Trust for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TABBYS PLACE A CAT SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWARK RENAISSANCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds JERSEY CARES INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PLAID HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON NJ ↗
- Who funds SADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWBELONG INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA 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: Pseg Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Victoria Foundation Inc · Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · George a Ohl Jr Trust · Columbia Bank Foundation · Investors 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 Community Foundation of New Jersey 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.
- Star Inc - Lighting the Way — 88% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- South Ward Alliance — 57% of income from government
- Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc — 38% of income from government
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
- Zufall Health Center Inc — 32% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- YouthBuild Newark Inc — 27% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% 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
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Plaid House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Newark Alliance Inc — 6% of income from government
- Jersey Cares Inc — 6% of income from government
- Homeless Solutions Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Serviam Girls Academy Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries — 2% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Arcdiocese of Newark — 1% of income from government
- Sage Eldercare — 1% of income from government
- Mane Stream Inc — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj — 1% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
- Saddle River Day School Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Drew University — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.