How much did EJ GRASSMANN TRUST grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of EJ GRASSMANN TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

momsclinicmethodistscholarship endowmentcounselingyouthcare

2021

scholarship endowmentgirl scoutsartsummitbridge

2022

summitfood bankrahwayscoutsarc

2023

methodistchildrensummitvalleysouthpreservationheart

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 154 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k71 grants · $422k
$10k–50k82 grants · $1.2M
$50k–250k1 grant · $75k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$33M

Total assets

Largest grants

TRINITAS HEALTH FOUNDATION$75,000
AMERICA'S GROW-A-ROW INC$35,000
MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC$32,500
MOUNT DE SALES ACADEMY$25,000
ST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER$25,000
OTIS REDDING FOUNDATION$25,000
ST PETER CLAVER SCHOOL$25,000
MERCER UNIVERSITY$25,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$25,000
INSTITUTE OF MUSIC FOR CHILDREN INC$25,000
SAINT VINCENT ACADEMY$24,000
NEWTOWN MACON$23,000
NAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
LOCKERLY ARBORETUM FOUNDATION$20,000
PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE$20,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $794k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.5M · 177 repeat orgs$860k to everyone else

177 repeat relationships — 127 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

177

Total granted

$7.5M

$645k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

Still filing today

66%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

PM
PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE
5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +30%
LA
LOCKERLY ARBORETUM FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $103k · revenue +27%
SJ
ST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER
4× · 2020–2024 · $102k · revenue +501%

Funded once

MS
MULBERRY STREE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $20k
BB
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON & UNION
one grant, 2021 · $20k
GL
GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +74%

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.

New Jersey State Museum Foundation

To support and foster an interest in the programs and collections of the new jersey state museum

Arts & Culture

The Foundation for the New Jersey Hall

To celebrate the garden state, to honor our legends, and to inspire our children.

Arts & Culture

The New Jersey Institute for Social

A state-wide research and advocacy organization dedicated to the advancement of urban areas and residents.

Human Services

New Jersey Public Charter Schools

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

Education

New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and to encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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Marion P Thomas Charter School

Marion p. thomas charter school is one of the largest charter school in the state of new jersey. it is one of the only mimority-led charter schools in the city of newark, reflecting both its student population and the community it serves.…

Education

Montgomery Academy

K-12 school serving students with special needs.

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New Jersey Policy Perspective Inc

New jersey policy perspective (njpp) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.

Arts & Culture

Rahway Day Care Center Inc

To provide educationally-sound, full and part time child day care for families living and working in union county.

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South Jersey Cultural Alliance

The South Jersey Cultural Alliance fosters an inclusive community of art, history, cultural organizations, artists and tradition bearers in the eight southern counties of New Jersey.

Arts & Culture

New Jersey Society of Certified Public

Promote & maintain high professional & ethical standards of the cpa in the state of nj; develop & improve accountancy education; & protect the interests of the public & society.

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Chemistry Council of New Jersey

To advance member interests, operational and environmental excellence, science,education, and community outreach in New Jersey.

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

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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.5%1/181

the rest of the field

11%

2,082/18,318

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.

05the grantee network

171 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

166/171

Grantees still filing

129/171

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,646,945Arts & Culture$1,027,100Human Services$824,100Health$729,275Education$577,100Environment$351,540Animals$223,650

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.

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 FoundationNJ150× affinity92 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · The Summit Foundation · The Peyton Anderson Foundation · Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund

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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

63get no government money at all

4rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HILLSIDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 222166966 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HILLSIDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 35% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ej Grassmann Trust?

Find your warmest path to Ej Grassmann Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EJ GRASSMANN TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

171 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ej Grassmann Trust?

More from the funding graph

EJ GRASSMANN TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

171 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ej Grassmann Trust?

More from the funding graph