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Ers Charitable Fund Inc at a glance

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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.

$151k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$299kReligion$157kHuman Services$144kFood & Nutrition$121kHealth$71kCommunity Improvement$51kCrime & Legal$21kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$88k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC$50,000
RARITAN VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE - RVCC FOUNDATION$50,000
FLEMINGTON FOOD PANTRY$20,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICEFAMILY MENTOR SERVICE$10,000
SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC$3,600
LEGAL SERVICES OF NJ CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE$2,500
HUNTERDON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$2,500
THE FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK$2,000
TEWKSBURY FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND$1,500
FRIENDS OF THE TEWKSBURY TWP LIBRARY$1,500
FRIENDS OF WHITTEMORE$1,000
JEWISH FEDERATION$1,000
TEWKSBURY LAND TRUST$1,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,000
ENDWELL FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE ANSOB CENTER FOR REFUGEES: $1k → 13%SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC: $50k → 5%THE FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $2k → 11%SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC: $35k → 5%THE FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $2k → 11%SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC: $35k → 5%THE FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $2k → 11%SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC: $31k → 5%THE FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $2k → 11%SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC: $4k → 5%SAFE IN HUNTERDON: $5k → 4%SAFE IN HUNTERDON: $4k → 4%SAFE IN HUNTERDON: $4k → 4%SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC: $475 → 5%SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC: $395 → 5%SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC: $395 → 5%SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC: $395 → 5%SHIMON & SARA BIRNBAUM JCC: $250 → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS IN HUNTERDAON: $300 → 4%THE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS: $500 → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Ers Charitable Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in NJ; by stated purpose, 84%.

Ers Charitable Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$807k · 23 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
23

Total granted

$807k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+30%

Still filing today

43%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RV
    Raritan Valley Community College Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $276k · revenue +159%
  • JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $157k · revenue +29%
  • SAFE IN HUNTERDON
    3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER COVID RECOVERY PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER THE SUSTAINABILITY CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Humc Cardiovascular Partners Pc

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.

Health
2
Humc Medical Observation Pa

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.

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3
Foundation for Hackettstown Medical Center

To serve the philanthropic needs for the Hackettstown Medical Center.

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4
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
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
Jfk Medical Associates Pa

Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.

Health
7
Hartwyck At Jfk Inc

To provide high quality care & management services for people in need of long

Health
8
Hackensack Specialty Care Associates Pc

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.

Health
9
Raritan Valley Community College

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.

Education
10
Hunterdon Primary Care Pc

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,…

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11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe in Hunterdon; 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.
05the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLEMINGTON FOOD PANTRY: $120,000 · OtherFLEMINGTON FOOD PANTRYJEWISH FAMILY SERVICEFAMILY MENTOR SERVICE: $74,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICEFAMILY MENTOR SERVICEJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER SUCCESS CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $26,304 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER SUCCESS CAPITAL CAMPAIGNJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER SPECIAL NEEDS CHALENGE: $25,945 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER SPECIAL NEEDS CHALENGEJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER COVID RECOVERY PROGRAM: $25,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER COVID RECOVERY PROGRAMJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER THE SUSTAINABILITY CAMPAIGN: $25,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER THE SUSTAINABILITY CAMPAIG…LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY HUNTERDON DIV: $15,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15,000 · OtherHUNTERDON DRUG AWARENESS PROGRAM INC: $15,000 · Other+24 more: $63,775 · Other+24 moreRaritan Valley Community College Foundation: $276,000 · EducationRaritan Valley Community College F…+2 more: $1,500 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND: $156,510 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTE…SAFE IN HUNTERDON: $13,000 · Human ServicesSAFE IN HUNTERDONFAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $7,800 · Human Services+3 more: $1,800 · Human ServicesHUNTERDON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 · HealthEND WELL FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND WARREN COUNTIES INC: $2,860 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTEWKSBURY CONNECT: $6,000 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $5,050 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF WHITTEMORE INC: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$405,024Education$277,500Human Services$179,110Health$21,500Philanthropy$13,860Arts & Culture$11,050Recreation & Sports$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRaritan Valley Community College Foundation: $276,000 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND: $156,510 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHUNTERDON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHUNTERDON DRUG AWARENESS PROGRAM INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAFE IN HUNTERDON: $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $7,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEWKSBURY CONNECT: $6,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $5,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEND WELL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF WHITTEMORE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND WARREN COUNTIES INC: $2,860 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPOTTERSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $2,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels in Hunterdon Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ANSOB CENTER FOR REFUGEES INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Chubb Charitable Foun…Columbia Bank Foundat…Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Provident Bank Fo…Princeton Area Commun…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ers Charitable Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ers Charitable Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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