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GRACE WORKS JERSEY CITY INC fka GRACE VAN VORST EPISCOPAL HOUSING
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: 87% of GRACE WORKS JERSEY CITY INC fka GRACE VAN VORST EPISCOPAL HOUSING’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 $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $160,000 |
| WELCOME HOME JERSEY CITY | $50,000 |
| NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| GRACE CHURCH VAN VORST | $25,365 |
| EDUCATIONAL ARTS TEAM | $20,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF HUDSON COUNTY | $20,000 |
| CARING CAPABLE HANDS INC | $20,000 |
| NEW CITY KIDS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SAF - SAVE A FEW | $7,500 |
| SHE IS INC | $7,000 |
| ISLAMIC CENTER OF JERSEY CITY | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $219k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF HUDSON COUNTY A NEW NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION7× · 2019–2025 · $179k · revenue +359%
- TWTEAM WALKER INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +171%
- EAEMPOWERMENT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +626%
Funded once
- BLBETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $25k
- MEMIDEAST EVANGELICAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $20k
NIMBUS DANCE WORKS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +344%
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.
The njyc provides quality music education to encourage young people's love and appreciation of choral music while nurturing their individual growth and development. using the power of music we foster a child's creative and intellectual…
The arts nonprofit offers free dance and theatre training and shows to hundreds local children and teenagers in Paterson, NJ and low-cost events and presentations to the community. Our focus is on Arts, Cultural, Education, Shows &…
Njcu is a membership organization of low and moderate income families focusing on public education, living wage jobs, worker rights, foreclosures and community justice issues through community outreach and education programs & works with…
New york city childrens chorus enables choristers, through hard work and dedication, to develop a passionate commitment to excellence through the choral art, to learn discipline and self-confidence, and to give back to their community…
Entertainment
To develop our students into young men of sound character through Rigorous academics
To enhance the quality of life in woodbridge by providing theater experiences for the residents of woodbridge and other areas of new jersey.
To provide outstanding education to the students from elementary to high school based on christian religious philosophy
Provides meaningful comprehensive educational, support and charitable programs that serve the youth and their families in MIami-Dade County.
To advocate the excellence of dance and dance education in the state.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New City Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mideast Presbyterian Community. 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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 75% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
11 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. 11 of the 32 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 FAMILY PROMISE OF HUDSON COUNTY A NEW NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM WALKER INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL ARTS TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN JERSEY CITY ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF HUDSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN RISING INC ↗
- Who funds NIMBUS DANCE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Mideast Presbyterian Community ↗
- Who funds ANGELA CARESINC ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 GRACE WORKS JERSEY CITY INC fka GRACE VAN VORST EPISCOPAL HOUSING 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.
- Team Walker Inc — 68% of income from government
- Women Rising Inc — 59% of income from government
- Nimbus Dance Works Inc — 22% 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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