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German Christmas Market of New Jersey Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$179k
Granted FY2026still arriving
62
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$100kFood & Nutrition$82kHousing & Shelter$78kEducation$51kHealth$43kArts & Culture$41kRecreation & Sports$37kYouth Development$27kOther$0
02FY2026 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,750
Median grant
2
States reached
$363k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POPE JOHN ATHLETIC LIONS CLUB$5,500
SUSSEX COUNTY TECHNICAL SCHOOL$5,018
SAMARITAN INN INC$5,000
CENTENARY UNIVERSITY BASEBALL$5,000
SPARTA BOARD OF ED GERMAN DEPT$5,000
KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATI$5,000
SOJIHUGGLES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$5,000
SCARC INC$5,000
SUSSEX COUNTY ARTS HERITAGE COUNCIL$5,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC$5,000
DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC$5,000
MANNA HOUSE INC$5,000
SUSSEX COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CE$4,500
BENNY'S BODEGA$4,500
HIGH POINT BBSB BOOSTER CLUB$4,500
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 (FY19–26, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 12%LENNON'S HOUSE: $3k → 12%LENNON'S HOUSE: $2k → 12%REBECCA'S HOMESTEAD INC: $3k → 4%REBECCA'S HOMESTEAD INC: $2k → 4%NICK'S HOPE: $2k → 4%SCARC INC: $5k → 6%SCARC INC: $5k → 6%SCARC INC: $5k → 6%SCARC INC: $5k → 6%SCARC INC: $4k → 6%SCARC INC: $1k → 6%PEACE BY PIECE NJ: $3k → 6%PEACE BY PIECE NJ: $2k → 6%DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $5k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $5k → 6%DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $5k → 6%KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATI: $5k → 6%KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATI: $5k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $5k → 6%DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $5k → 6%KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATI: $5k → 6%KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATI: $5k → 6%BENNY'S BODEGA: $5k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $5k → 6%DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $5k → 6%KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATI: $4k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $4k → 6%DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $4k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $4k → 6%NORWESCAP INC: $4k → 6%BENNY'S BODEGA: $3k → 6%NORWESCAP INC: $3k → 6%NORWESCAP INC: $3k → 6%NORWESCAP INC: $3k → 6%NORWESCAP INC: $2k → 6%DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $2k → 6%PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY: $2k → 6%BENNY'S BODEGA: $2k → 6%KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATI: $2k → 6%KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATI: $2k → 6%DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $2k → 6%BENNY'S BODEGA: $1k → 6%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$695k · 62 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2026, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
7

Total granted

$695k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

37%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterFood & 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

  • KA
    KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2026 · $28k · revenue +44%
  • SI
    SAMARITAN INN INC
    7× · 2019–2026 · $28k · revenue +15%
  • DA
    DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC
    7× · 2019–2026 · $27k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • PS
    PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2025 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • TC
    THE CAMP NIJIDA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2025 · $2k
  • PS
    PARTNERSHIP SOCIAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
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
Inspire-Nj a Nonprofit Corporation

Inspire nj provides food pantry and other services to people in need

Human Services
2
North Bergen Renaissance Corp

Manages a low income senior housing project in north bergen, new jersey.

Housing & Shelter
3
Avidd Community Services of New Jersey Inc

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.

Health
4
Homesharing Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Home Care Options Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Nourishnj Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Randolph Rescue Squad Inc

Medical and emergency rescue operations for the township of randolph, nj.

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8
Helping Hand Pregnancy Center of Sussex County Inc

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.

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9
Human Needs Food Pantry Inc

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

Human Services
10
Blairstown Volunteer Fire a Nj Nonprofit Corp

To answer fire calls, attend regular meetings and training required for firefighters and to maintain all apparatus to fight fires.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Somerset Community Action Program Inc

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.

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12
Corporation for New Jersey Local Media

We build strong communities through journalism and civic engagement.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Sussex County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 80 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
18/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOJIHUGGLES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $27,650 · OtherSOJIHUGGLES CHILDRENS FOUNDATIONSPARTA BOARD OF ED GERMAN DEPT: $27,550 · OtherSPARTA BOARD OF ED GERMAN DEPTMANNA HOUSE INCORPORATED: $27,550 · OtherMANNA HOUSE INCORPORATEDSUSSEX COUNTY TECHNICAL SCHOOL: $27,231 · OtherSUSSEX COUNTY TECHNICAL SCHOOLSUSSEX COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CE: $19,250 · OtherNORTHERN NJ VETERANS MEMORIAL CEMET: $18,600 · OtherSUSSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $18,525 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,450 · OtherBIRTH HAVEN INC: $17,250 · Other+49 more: $248,800 · Other+49 moreKAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $27,850 · Human ServicesKAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMO…DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $26,775 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE…SCARC INC: $24,900 · Human ServicesSCARC INCFAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $21,525 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF SUSS…NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $13,900 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY C…BENNY 'S BODEGA A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,500 · Human ServicesBENNY 'S BODEGA A NJ N…+7 more: $19,500 · Human Services+7 morePASS IT ALONG INC: $15,600 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $14,600 · PhilanthropySAMARITAN INN INC: $27,650 · Housing & ShelterSUSSEX COUNTY ARTS & HERITAGE COUNC: $24,775 · Arts & CultureSPARTA TRAIN STATION: $1,500 · Arts & CultureSPARTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $22,900 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL WINTER ACTIVITY CENTER: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsSCARC GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsHAPPINESS IS CAMPING: $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$449,856Human Services$144,950Philanthropy$30,200Housing & Shelter$27,650Arts & Culture$26,275Food & Nutrition$22,900Recreation & Sports$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $27,850 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN INN INC: $27,650 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $26,775 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSCARC INC: $24,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUSSEX COUNTY ARTS & HERITAGE COUNC: $24,775 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetSPARTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $22,900 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $21,525 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTH HAVEN INC: $17,250 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPASS IT ALONG INC: $15,600 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $14,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $13,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WINTER ACTIVITY CENTER: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBENNY 'S BODEGA A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLennons House: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSCARC GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $3,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: $2,600 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLITERACY NEW JERSEY INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTA TRAIN STATION: $1,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetVERITAS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $300 over 3y, 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 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 BIRTH HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds PASS IT ALONG INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WINTER ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BENNY 'S BODEGA A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE RESCUE SQUAD 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.

Atlantic Health System Inc Group ReturnNJ24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 German Christmas Market of New Jersey Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from German Christmas Market of New Jersey Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to German Christmas Market of New Jersey Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 80 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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