· Private foundation
German Christmas Market of New Jersey Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of German Christmas Market of New Jersey Foundation Inc’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUSSEX COUNTY TECHNICAL SCHOOL | $7,018 |
| SUSSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| SCARC INC | $5,000 |
| SUSSEX COUNTY ARTS HERITAGE COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| MANNA HOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| SOJIHUGGLES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SPARTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN INN INC | $5,000 |
| SPARTA BOARD OF ED GERMAN DEPT | $5,000 |
| KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATI | $5,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION COUNSELIN | $4,600 |
| SUSSEX COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CE | $4,000 |
| NORTHERN NJ VETERANS MEMORIAL CEMET | $3,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 98% 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.
51 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 14 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- KAKAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +44%
- SISAMARITAN INN INC6× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +15%
- DADOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC6× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- PSPARTNERSHIP SOCIAL SERVICESone grant, 2019 · $2k
- STSPARTA TRAIN STATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -55%
- BSBOY SCOUTS TROOP 150one grant, 2024 · $500
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.
Manages a low income senior housing project in north bergen, new jersey.
Inspire nj provides food pantry and other services to people in need
The organization's primary mission is to enable developmentally disabled individuals to develop fully within the structure of family life which encourages responsibility, growth, and independence.
Nourish.nj provides immediate access to healthy food as the first step toward a stable future. as a center of support, we connect our neighbors to essential community resources and provide direct services to address the root causes of…
To provide food, clothing, household goods and other services to people in need who live in montclair, nj and other neighboring communities in essex county
To serve the expanding and evolving in-home needs of residents of northern nj by delivering a continuum of care for clients and families through the services of a highly trained caring and compassionate workforce.
Somerset community action program, inc. (scap) is a non-for-profit organization provide early childhood education programs, financial literacy, community planning and nutritional support to residents of somerset county.
Homesharing's mission is to create affordable housing solutions by matching those seeking housing with those who need additional income or services to maintain their homes, while fostering independence and dignity.
The helping hand pregnancy center of sussex county, inc. helps pregnant women who are in crisis to understand and work through the alternatives, enabling them to make an informed decision concerning the outcome of the pregnancy.
We build strong communities through journalism and civic engagement.
The organization's mission is to make the critical connection between individuals and families seeking health and/or human services and the organizations best able to meet their needs.
Medical and emergency rescue operations for the township of randolph, nj.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Sussex County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Knights of Columbus. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 69 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 KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN INN INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SCARC INC ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX COUNTY ARTS & HERITAGE COUNC ↗
- Who funds SPARTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds PASS IT ALONG INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WINTER ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds BENNY 'S BODEGA A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
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: Atlantic Health System Inc Group Return · Community Foundation of New Jersey · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Deacon Family Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Provident Charities Inc · Steven D Kienitz Family Charitable Foundation · The Sella Foundation Trust
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 German Christmas Market of New Jersey 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.
- Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc — 38% of income from government
- Family Promise of Sussex County Inc — 32% of income from government
- Literacy New Jersey Inc — 28% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Samaritan Inn Inc — 0% of income from government
- Scarc Inc — 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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