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Foster Karney Trust Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of FOSTER KARNEY TRUST FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $209k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION OF SUBSTAINABLE VETS HOU | $27,000 |
| RANCH HOPE | $27,000 |
| JOHN R ELLIOTT HERO CAMPAIGN | $24,000 |
| SUNSHINE FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| SHORE MEMORIAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| OC HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY POST 524 | $14,279 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 524 | $14,000 |
| NJ RUN FOR THE FALLEN | $10,000 |
| ST PETERS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $9,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $6,000 |
| CAPE ATLANTIC CITIZENS ALTERATING S | $5,000 |
| SONES OF AMERICAN LEGION SQUAD 524 | $4,000 |
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, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 7 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- RHRanch Hope Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $107k · revenue +36%
- CCCONTACT CAPE ATLANTIC8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +31%
- CACAPE ATLANTIC CITIZENS ALTERING STRAY CATS8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $11k
- SHSHRINNERS' HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $8k
- ALAMERICAN LEGION CRAWFORD CREWS POSTone grant, 2024 · $6k
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.
Grateful Paws NJ is a non-profit organization devoted to rescuing stray and abandoned animals throughout New Jersey, providing medical care and helping them to find new homes.
The mission of the nj animal advocacy alliance is to protect the welfare of all homeless animals by reducing the number of homeless animals, offering low cost spay and neuter clinics, raising awareness and educating our youth.
Provides refuge for homeless and unwanted animals, adoption services for homeless animals, and spay/neuter services.
Capic rescues animals and gets them new homes and does tnr for the community as well as adopting animals, spay neuters returns, and helps owners who cannot afford medical help and vetting on their own We also feed hundreds of animals feral…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Place for Us Atlantic County Womens Center and the most unlike its peers is Newwave Foundation. 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 24 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) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 77 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 SUNSHINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ranch Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds CONTACT CAPE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ATLANTIC CITIZENS ALTERING STRAY CATS ↗
- Who funds NJ RUN FOR THE FALLEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE VETERAN HOUSING A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds A PLACE FOR US ATLANTIC COUNTY WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THEATER COLLABORATIVE OF SOUTH JERSEY ↗
- Who funds Marine Mammal Stranding Center ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey 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: Oceanfirst Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Sykora Family Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Foster Karney Trust Foundation 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.
- Newwave Foundation — 100% of income from government
- Marine Mammal Stranding Center — 10% of income from government
- The Wetlands Institute — 2% of income from government
- A Place for Us Atlantic County Womens Center — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.