New Jersey · Private foundation
Deacon Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $72k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Deacon Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $52k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $71k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $53k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $180k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $31k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $22k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Self-Sufficiency of Sussex County Inc | $46,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Patriots' Path Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $17,990 | 3 | 0% |
| Sparta Community Food Pantry Inc | $13,982 | 1 | 0% |
| Provident Charities Inc | $13,650 | 5 | 1% |
| The Center for Prevention & Counseling | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $5,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Pass It Along Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Mohawk Preservation Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Father Johns Animal House | $4,250 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Self-Sufficiency of Sussex County Inc | $46,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Patriots' Path Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $17,990 | 3 | 0% |
| Sparta Community Food Pantry Inc | $13,982 | 1 | 0% |
| Provident Charities Inc | $13,650 | 5 | 1% |
| The Center for Prevention & Counseling | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $5,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Pass It Along Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Mohawk Preservation Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Father Johns Animal House | $4,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey | $4,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Scarc Inc | $3,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Family Promise of Sussex County Inc | $3,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Sussex County Farm and Horse Show Association Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Peace by Piece Nj Inc | $900 | 2 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Assumption University | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($268k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Deacon Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Deacon Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Deacon Family Foundation Inc give?
- Deacon Family Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $71,682 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Deacon Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Health (20%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Deacon Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Project Self-Sufficiency of Sussex County Inc ($47k), Patriots' Path Council Inc Boy Scouts of America ($18k), Sparta Community Food Pantry Inc ($14k).
- Does Deacon Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Deacon Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Deacon Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include German Christmas Market of New Jersey Foundation Inc, Atlantic Health System Inc Group Return, John a and Margaret Post Foundation.
- Where is Deacon Family Foundation Inc based?
- Deacon Family Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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