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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Philanthropy$97kHealth$87kHuman Services$47kYouth Development$27kReligion$20kFood & Nutrition$14kInternational$11kAnimals$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SERVANT'S HEART MINISTRY$20,000
SPARTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$13,982
NMH FOUNDATION$11,950
PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY$7,500
BSA PATRIOTS PATH COUNCIL$6,000
PASS IT ALONG$5,000
CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING$2,000
LAKELAND CHARITIES$1,500
KAREN ANNE QUINLAN HOSPICE$1,250
SCARC$1,250
GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN NJ$750
FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FATHER JOHN'S ANIMAL HOUSE: $2k → 6%FATHER JOHN'S ANIMAL HOUSE: $2k → 6%FATHER JOHN'S ANIMAL HOUSE: $1k → 6%FATHER JOHN'S ANIMAL HOUSE: $250 → 6%SCARC: $1k → 6%SCARC: $1k → 6%SCARC: $1k → 6%PEACE BY PIECE NJ INC: $500 → 6%SCARC: $250 → 6%PEACE BY PIECE NJ INC: $400 → 6%SCARC: $250 → 6%PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY: $16k → 6%PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY: $8k → 6%PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY: $8k → 6%PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY: $6k → 6%PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY: $5k → 6%PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY: $5k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY: $1k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY: $500 → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY: $500 → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY: $500 → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY: $250 → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY: $250 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$231k · 15 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

$231k
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+3%

Still filing today

73%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentReligionOther

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

  • PS
    PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +63%
  • PP
    PATRIOTS' PATH COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +7%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • WN
    WINKLER NEWTON MED CTR
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Samaritan Inn Inc

To provide emergency food and temporary shelter to homeless families in sussex county as well as a program of counseling and skill building in family maintenance and growth. its core values are service, social justice, competence, and…

Housing & Shelter
2
Sussex County Childrens Advocacy

The mission of ginnie's house children's advocacy center is to create a refuge of comfort, healing, hope, and justice for abused children, while providing community education and advocacy to prevent child abuse.

Unclassified
3
Homesharing Inc

Homesharing's mission is to create affordable housing solutions by matching those seeking housing with those who need additional income or services to maintain their homes, while fostering independence and dignity.

Housing & Shelter
4
Helping Hand Pregnancy Center of Sussex County Inc

The helping hand pregnancy center of sussex county, inc. helps pregnant women who are in crisis to understand and work through the alternatives, enabling them to make an informed decision concerning the outcome of the pregnancy.

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5
Princeton Senior Resource Center Dba Center for Modern Aging Princeton

Psrc is the go-to resource where aging adults and their families find support, guidance, educational and social programs to help navigate life transitions and continue to be active, healty and engaged in the community.

Human Services
6
Family Promise of Southwest Nj

The organization's mission is to provide households experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, an opportunity to achieve stability by providing comprehensive shelter diversion/homeless prevention, or transitional housing…

Human Services
7
Nj 2-1-1 Partnership a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation

The organization's mission is to make the critical connection between individuals and families seeking health and/or human services and the organizations best able to meet their needs.

Human Services
8
Southern New Hampshire Rescue Mission

We exist to share the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as well as provide shelter, food, and clothing to the poor and needy in obedience to Him.

Religion
9
Family Promise of Warren County Inc

Family promise of warren county (fpwc) is an independent, self-supporting private non-profit 501(c)(3) agency that has served homeless and low-income families and individuals since july 2008. our mission is to help households achieve…

Housing & Shelter
10
St Peter's Health Partners

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Health
11
Family Promise of Bergen County

Provide temporary shelter and support to working families experiencing homelessness, and a dinner program to address food insecurity in the community.

Housing & Shelter
12
The Arc of Bergen and Passaic Counties Inc

To provide enhanced opportunities for all citizens of bergen and passaic counties with intellectual and other disabilities and their families through advocacy, community education, direct services, and customized supports to help these…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Sussex County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNMH FOUNDATION — $48,800 · OtherNMH FOUNDATIONKAREN ANNE QUINLAN HOSPICE — $41,250 · OtherKAREN ANNE QUINLAN HOSPICEWINKLER NEWTON MED CTR — $35,000 · OtherWINKLER NEWTON MED CTRPATRIOTS PATH COUNCIL — $19,300 · OtherPATRIOTS PATH COUNCILNMC FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Other+9 more — $26,000 · Other+9 morePROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC — $46,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT SELF-SU…FATHER JOHNS ANIMAL HOUSE — $4,250 · Human ServicesFATHER JOHNS AN…SCARC INC — $3,750 · Human ServicesSCARC INCFAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC — $3,250 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE …+1 more — $900 · Human ServicesSERVANTS HEART MINISTRY CORPORATION — $20,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,750 · ReligionPROVIDENT CHARITIES INC — $13,650 · PhilanthropyPASS IT ALONG INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyPATRIOTS' PATH COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $17,990 · Youth DevelopmentSPARTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC — $13,982 · Food & NutritionTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING — $6,000 · HealthSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — $1,000 · Health
Other$285,350Human Services$58,650Religion$25,750Philanthropy$18,650Youth Development$17,990Food & Nutrition$13,982Health$7,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC — $46,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSERVANTS HEART MINISTRY CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPATRIOTS' PATH COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $17,990 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPARTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC — $13,982 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENT CHARITIES INC — $13,650 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING — $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFATHER JOHNS ANIMAL HOUSE — $4,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY — $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSCARC INC — $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC — $3,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE BY PIECE NJ INC — $900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

German Christmas Mark…Atlantic Health Syste…John a and Margaret P…Community Foundation …The Provident Bank Fo…Provident Charities I…Steven D Kienitz Fami…United Way of Norther…Verizon FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…
German Christmas Market of New Jersey Foundation IncNJ20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: German Christmas Market of New Jersey Foundation Inc · Atlantic Health System Inc Group Return · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Provident Bank Foundation · Provident Charities Inc · Steven D Kienitz Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Deacon Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Family Promise of Sussex County Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
  • The Center for Prevention & Counseling — 4% of income from government
  • Servants Heart Ministry Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Assumption University — 0% of income from government
  • Scarc Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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