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Edward Hall Gmelich Memorial Scholarship Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS | $105,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $55,000 |
| THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| RUMSON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $15,500 |
| FOCUS | $12,000 |
| RANNEY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| EXPERIENCE CAMPS | $5,000 |
| LUNCH BREAK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LA | $1,000 |
| PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 11 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- THTrinity Hall4× · 2021–2024 · $575k · revenue +58%
- SHSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED2× · 2024–2025 · $225k · revenue +7%
- TRThe Rumson Country Day School5× · 2021–2025 · $71k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SCSHORE CLUBHOUSE INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -5%
- LHLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SHSACRED HEART ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $25k
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 educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Sam Cullen Memorial Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 40 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
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 Trinity Hall ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Rumson Country Day School ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE SAM CULLEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SHORE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RANNEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WRITE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds RED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL JERSEY AQUATIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds ONCE UPON A ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MANASQUAN RIVER GOLF 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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment 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 Edward Hall Gmelich Memorial Scholarship Fund 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.
- Interfaith Neighbors Inc — 9% of income from government
- Shore Clubhouse Inc — 7% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Project Write Now 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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