· Private foundation
Ers Charitable Fund 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RARITAN VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE - RVCC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC | $50,000 |
| FLEMINGTON FOOD PANTRY | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICEFAMILY MENTOR SERVICE | $10,000 |
| SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC | $3,600 |
| HUNTERDON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF NJ CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE | $2,500 |
| THE FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK | $2,000 |
| TEWKSBURY FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE TEWKSBURY TWP LIBRARY | $1,500 |
| TEWKSBURY LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| ENDWELL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE COMPLETED LIFE INITIATIVE INC | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WHITTEMORE | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Ers Charitable Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- RVRaritan Valley Community College Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $276k · revenue +159%
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND4× · 2022–2025 · $157k · revenue +29%
SAFE IN HUNTERDON3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER THE SUSTAINABILITY CAMPAIGNone grant, 2021 · $25k
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER COVID RECOVERY PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $25k
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
To serve the philanthropic needs for the Hackettstown Medical Center.
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
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…
Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.
To provide high quality care & management services for people in need of long
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
Raritan Valley Community College is an educational community that works to develop critical thinking, foster intellectual curiosity, promote leadership, encourage social responsibility and support personal growth.
To support the goals and objectives of hunterdon healthcare system, inc. and its affiliates; a tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system. hunterdon primary care, p.c.'s activities and charitable purposes include, without limitation,…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe in Hunterdon and the most unlike its peers is Tewksbury Connect. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 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) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 51 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 Raritan Valley Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND ↗
- Who funds HUNTERDON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTERDON DRUG AWARENESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE IN HUNTERDON ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TEWKSBURY CONNECT ↗
- Who funds Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds END WELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WHITTEMORE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND WARREN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds POTTERSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE ANSOB CENTER FOR REFUGEES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Ers Charitable Fund 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.
- Safe in Hunterdon — 51% of income from government
- Family Resource Network Inc — 47% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.