· Private foundation
Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k70 grants · $267k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k66 grants · $5.4M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION | $1,555,000 |
| MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $425,000 |
| GATHERING GROUND INC | $333,000 |
| NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC | $333,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE JERSEY INC | $333,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY | $250,000 |
| NEW JERSEY CONSORTIUM FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN INC | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY | $210,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY | $200,000 |
| ARTS ED NEW JERSEY INC | $196,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION | $166,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC | $150,000 |
| FREE PRESS | $125,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 6% of Geraldine R Dodge Foundation 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, 90% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 94% — more 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
330 repeat relationships — 124 still active in FY2024, 206 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +36%
NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +45%- SJSUSTAINABLE JERSEY5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +33%
Funded once
- SJSUSTAINABLE JERSEY A NJ NONPROFITone grant, 2019 · $395k
- NJNEW JERSEY PRINCIPALS AND SUPERINTENDANTSone grant, 2021 · $220k
- RURUTGERS UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIPone grant, 2022 · $125k
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.
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
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.
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.
Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.
Promote awareness of grand and lyric opera to the general public through performance, program literature, presentations and community outreach programs.
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
New jersey lcv is the statewide political voice for the environment. working with our allies in the community, we advocate for strong environmental policies, support our environmental justice partners in pursuing more equitable policies,…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
To work in partnership to make newark a better, safer place to work, live, learn, play, and do business.
To advance member interests, operational and environmental excellence, science,education, and community outreach in New Jersey.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Center for Nonprofits Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fund for New Jersey. 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.
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 30 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
424 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. 424 of the 548 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
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
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE JERSEY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds Art Pride New Jersey Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GATHERING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Ironbound Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Policy Perspective ↗
- Who funds THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds SALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Passage Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PATERSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds RISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds CIVIC NEWS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds RARITAN BAYKEEPER 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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Victoria Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · New Jersey Council For The Humanities · Fund for New Jersey
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 Geraldine R Dodge Foundation 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.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- City Green Inc — 100% of income from government
- New Jersey Tree Foundation — 100% of income from government
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- Camden Community Partnership Inc — 94% of income from government
- Art Pride New Jersey Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
- Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc — 69% of income from government
- Freespace Dance Inc — 55% of income from government
- Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N — 52% of income from government
- Hunterdon Land Trust — 48% of income from government
- The Childrens Home Society of New Jersey — 43% of income from government
- New Jersey Theatre Alliance Inc — 41% of income from government
- New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — 39% of income from government
- Newark Community Street Team Inc — 38% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- Trilogy an Opera Company — 34% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company — 25% of income from government
- Perkins Center for the Arts — 24% of income from government
- Bayshore Center at Bivalve Inc — 23% of income from government
- Nimbus Dance Works Inc — 22% of income from government
- Arts Ed Nj Inc — 21% of income from government
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
- Aapi Montclair Inc — 21% of income from government
- Newark School of the Arts — 20% of income from government
- Urban League of Essex County — 20% of income from government
- The Education & Training Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey Inc — 19% of income from government
- New Jersey Ballet Company Inc — 19% of income from government
- Pushcart Players Inc — 18% of income from government
- Newark Arts Council — 16% of income from government
- Bay-Atlantic Symphony — 16% of income from government
- Atlantic City Ballet — 15% of income from government
- Dance New Jersey Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Discovery Orchestra Inc — 14% of income from government
- New Jersey Festival Orchestra — 13% of income from government
- The Roxey Ballet Company — 11% of income from government
- The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
- Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company — 11% of income from government
- Passage Theatre Company Inc — 10% of income from government
- D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc — 9% of income from government
- New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc — 9% of income from government
- Hunterdon Art Museum — 9% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- Artworks Trenton Inc — 8% of income from government
- Union City Music Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- New Jersey Future Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Morris Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cape May Stage Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Inc — 6% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
- Clinton Hill Community Action Inc — 6% of income from government
- Institute for the Development of Education in the Arts — 6% of income from government
- Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts Inc — 6% of income from government
- Colab Arts Inc — 6% of income from government
- Glassroots Inc — 5% of income from government
- Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/a United Way of Greater Newark — 2% of income from government
- Crossroads 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
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- American Littoral Society — 1% of income from government
- Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Two River Theatre Company Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc — 0% 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.
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