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· Private foundation

Ej Grassmann Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
134
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$2.1MArts & Culture$1.6MHealth$1.5MHuman Services$1.2MEnvironment$774kHousing & Shelter$550kYouth Development$474kAnimals$386kOther$0
02FY2025 · 134 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k55 grants · $331k
  • $10k–50k77 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $280k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCER UNIVERSITY$200,000
TRINITAS HEALTH FOUNDATION$80,000
AMERICA'S GROW-A-ROW INC$35,000
INSTITUTE OF MUSIC FOR CHILDREN INC$33,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$25,000
NEWTOWN MACON$25,000
SAINT VINCENT ACADEMY$25,000
GILL ST BERNARDS SCHOOL$25,000
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RAHWAY FOUNDATION$22,000
COVENANT HOUSE OF NEW JERSEY$20,000
OAK KNOLL SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD$20,000
PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE$20,000
YMCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY$20,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY$20,000
PINGRY SCHOOL$20,000
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, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $15k → 16%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $15k → 16%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $13k → 4%AMERICA'S GROW-A-ROW INC: $45k → 4%AMERICA'S GROW-A-ROW INC: $35k → 4%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $12k → 4%AMERICA'S GROW-A-ROW INC: $35k → 4%BONNIE BRAE: $15k → 5%AMERICA'S GROW-A-ROW INC: $35k → 4%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $10k → 4%AMERICA'S GROW-A-ROW INC: $32k → 4%AMERICA'S GROW-A-ROW INC: $25k → 4%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $10k → 4%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $10k → 4%REBUILDING MACON INC: $27k → 23%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL NJ: $20k → 5%JESPY HOUSE: $10k → 16%ARC OF MACON: $10k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $22k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $21k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $20k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE OF NEW JERSEY: $20k → 16%RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA: $10k → 23%REBUILDING MACON IN: $20k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $18k → 16%REBUILDING MACON INC: $17k → 23%REBUILDING MACON INC: $15k → 23%CHESHIRE HOME INC: $15k → 4%REBUILDING MACON INC: $15k → 23%CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS: $13k → 5%ST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER: $38k → 10%ST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER: $30k → 10%ST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER: $25k → 10%ELIZABETH COALITION TO HOUSE THE HOMELESS: $14k → 10%ELIZABETH COALITION TO HOUSE THE HOMELESS: $11k → 10%RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $15k → 23%THE CONNECTION FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $15k → 10%COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED: $13k → 10%COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED: $12k → 10%COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED: $12k → 10%COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED: $12k → 10%UNITED FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SOCIETY: $11k → 10%UNITED FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SOCIETY: $11k → 10%CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE INC: $15k → 10%CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE INC: $12k → 10%CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE INC: $12k → 10%CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE INC: $12k → 10%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.8M · 188 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

188 repeat relationships — 110 still active in FY2025, 78 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

188
73

Total granted

$8.8M
$634k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+3%

Still filing today

74%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $409k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • Americas Grow-A-Row
    6× · 2020–2025 · $207k · revenue +23%
  • YO
    YWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $193k · revenue +17%
  • NM
    NEWTOWN MACON INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $144k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • GL
    GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +12%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON & UNION
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -15%

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
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
2
Unity Charter School

The unity charter school (ucs) was chartered by the new jersey department of education in january 1997 as the only charter school that had included a planning year prior to its opening. the charter school opened its doors to the first 60…

Education
3
Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by promoting…

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4
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Inc

New jersey institute for social justice (the institute), a public charity, is a newark-based urban research and advocacy organization dedicated to the advancement of new jersey's urban areas and residents.

Human Services
5
Marion P Thomas Charter School

The charter schools mission is to prepare newarks next generation of children to be intelectually, emotionally, socially and financially responsible citizens.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
New Jersey Citizen Action

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.

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8
Stevens Cooperative School

Stevens cooperative school fosters curiosity, compassion and confidence in students who think deeply, act ethically and lead by example.

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9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation

To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.

Education
11
The New Jersey Historical Society

The new jersey historical society collects, preserves, teaches, and interprets new jersey history through our archives, research library, and educational programs. we do so in the belief that an understanding and appreciation of historical…

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12
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc and the most unlike its peers is Preservation America Trust. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPediatric Disease Support &…Professional Associations &…Hindu and Sikh TemplesAffordable Housing Developm…Regional Economic Developme…Early Childhood Care & Educ…Hospital Physician ServicesPrivate Family FoundationsDisability Services & Suppo…Senior Healthcare & Residen…Union Member Benefit Funds
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr14%35%35–55yr12%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr14%39%35–55yr12%35%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%3/227
the rest of the field
13%
2,766/21,822

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.

04the grantee network

210 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. 210 of the 287 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
202/210
Grantees still filing
148/210
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST PETER CLAVER SCHOOL — $215,000 · OtherMERCER UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · OtherYWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY INC — $193,200 · Other+99 more — $3,894,700 · Other+99 moreAmericas Grow-A-Row — $207,000 · Human ServicesAmericas Grow-A…ST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER — $101,500 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH SOCIA…COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC — $100,100 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE …REBUILDING MACON INC — $94,400 · Human ServicesREBUILDING MACO…Community Hope Inc — $62,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED INC — $58,500 · Human ServicesCHESHIRE HOME INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC — $53,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SOCIETY — $52,300 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE INC — $51,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED LIFETIME ASSISTANCE NETWORK OF NEW JERSEY — $49,800 · Human ServicesFROST VALLEY YMCA — $45,000 · Human ServicesBONNIE BRAE — $45,000 · Human Services+13 more — $297,300 · Human Services+13 morePaper Mill Playhouse — $135,000 · Arts & CulturePaper Mill Pla…SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY — $101,800 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEARE TH…GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC — $100,400 · Arts & CultureGEORGE STREET …MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES INC — $92,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF ARTS…NEW JERSEY BALLET COMPANY INC — $75,500 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY BAL…OTIS REDDING FOUNDATION INC — $67,500 · Arts & CultureOTIS REDDING F…THE MORRIS MUSEUM INC — $64,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF MUSIC FOR CHILDREN INC — $58,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC — $58,000 · Arts & CulturePRINCETON BALLET SOCIETY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC — $48,200 · Arts & CultureThe Historical Society Elizabeth NJ — $47,300 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $352,200 · Arts & Culture+15 moreTRINITAS FOUNDATION — $460,000 · HealthTRINITAS FO…NAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 · HealthNAVICENT HE…CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $98,800 · HealthCHILDREN'S …MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC — $57,500 · HealthMACON VOLUN…Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services — $45,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL GEORGIA — $37,400 · HealthCrossroads Christian Counseling Center Inc — $36,700 · Health+6 more — $117,975 · Health+6 moreWESLEYAN COLLEGE — $100,000 · EducationMIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $97,300 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $70,000 · EducationMIDLAND FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationGEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · EducationSAGE ELDERCARE — $51,900 · EducationTHE WARDLAW-HARTRIDGE SCHOOL — $45,000 · EducationSTRATFORD ACADEMY INC — $39,000 · EducationUNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $37,400 · EducationTHE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC — $32,000 · EducationTHE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Education+4 more — $72,000 · EducationREEVES - REED ARBORETUM — $94,000 · EnvironmentRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION — $60,500 · EnvironmentGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC — $58,200 · EnvironmentTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY — $55,000 · EnvironmentNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EnvironmentGREENWOOD GARDENS — $27,750 · EnvironmentNew Jersey Audubon Society — $23,000 · EnvironmentGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $22,790 · EnvironmentASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS — $17,000 · EnvironmentTHE RAPTOR TRUST — $92,100 · AnimalsASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC — $60,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC — $60,000 · AnimalsMT PLEASANT ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $37,000 · AnimalsWOODFORD CEDAR RUN WILDLIFE REFUGE — $32,000 · AnimalsWOODLANDS WILDLIFE REFUGE INC — $15,000 · Animals
Other$4,502,900Human Services$1,331,900Arts & Culture$1,250,400Health$958,375Education$714,600Environment$403,240Animals$296,100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRINITAS FOUNDATION — $460,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetAmericas Grow-A-Row — $207,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetYWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY INC — $193,200 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEWTOWN MACON INC — $144,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetPaper Mill Playhouse — $135,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLOCKERLY ARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $102,500 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetSHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY — $101,800 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER — $101,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetGEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC — $100,400 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC — $100,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWESLEYAN COLLEGE — $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $98,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $97,300 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetREBUILDING MACON INC — $94,400 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetREEVES - REED ARBORETUM — $94,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES INC — $92,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Union County Inc — $92,300 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE RAPTOR TRUST — $92,100 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ — $90,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCAMPUS CLUBS INC — $86,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY BALLET COMPANY INC — $75,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC — $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOTIS REDDING FOUNDATION INC — $67,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE KOINONIA ACADEMY — $67,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC — $64,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Hope Inc — $62,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION — $60,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMIDLAND FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJCC of Central New Jersey — $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMACON AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $60,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED INC — $58,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC — $58,200 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF MUSIC FOR CHILDREN INC — $58,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC — $58,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC — $57,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY — $55,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHESHIRE HOME INC — $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC — $53,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPG CHAMBERS SCHOOL — $52,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SOCIETY — $52,300 over 5y, 1.2% 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.

  • Who funds TRINITAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Americas Grow-A-Row ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NEWTOWN MACON INC ↗
  • Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
  • Who funds NAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOCKERLY ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds REBUILDING MACON INC ↗
  • Who funds REEVES - REED ARBORETUM ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES INC ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Union County Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ ↗
  • Who funds CAMPUS CLUBS INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RAHWAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OTIS REDDING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KOINONIA ACADEMY ↗

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.

The Hyde and Watson F…Union FoundationInvestors Foundation …Bristol-Myers Squibb …Pseg Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Citizens Philanthropi…The Provident Bank Fo…Columbia Bank Foundat…Geraldine R Dodge Fou…George a Ohl Jr TrustThe Summit Foundation
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ179.8× affinity121 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Union Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · George a Ohl Jr Trust · The Summit 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 Ej Grassmann Trust 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 · 480%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • New Jersey Tree Foundation — 100% of income from government
  • Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
  • The Bridge Inc — 79% of income from government
  • Family and Children's Services Inc — 78% of income from government
  • New Jersey Parents Caucus Inc — 74% of income from government
  • 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
  • New Jersey Theatre Alliance Inc — 41% of income from government
  • Music for All Seasons Inc — 41% of income from government
  • Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
  • Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Literacy New Jersey Inc — 28% of income from government
  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
  • New Jersey Ballet Company Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Pushcart Players Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Vivid Stage Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Community Access Unlimited Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company — 11% of income from government
  • Boxwood Learning Center Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Save Ellis Island Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Plaid House Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Hunterdon Art Museum — 9% of income from government
  • Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
  • Ywca of Eastern Union County Inc — 8% of income from government
  • The Morris Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Cheshire Home Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Opportunity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Ymca Camp Ralph S Mason — 4% of income from government
  • Bonnie Brae — 3% of income from government
  • Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services — 3% of income from government
  • Collier Services - Sisters of the Good Shepherd — 3% of income from government
  • Liberty Hall Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Jespy House Inc — 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
  • The Institute of Music for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Westfield Day Care Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Reeves - Reed Arboretum — 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj — 1% of income from government
  • Sage Eldercare — 1% of income from government
  • CROSSROADS4HOPE — 1% of income from government
  • Ym-Ywha of Union County — 1% of income from government
  • Mane Stream Inc — 1% of income from government
  • New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Saint Peter's University — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
48get no government money at all
62report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
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.

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How do I get to Ej Grassmann Trust?

Find your warmest path to Ej Grassmann Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 287 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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