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· Public charity

Greater Trenton Inc

Broker, foster, and leverage private, public, and community resources to enhance and promote redevelopment initiatives that will revitalize the city of trenton, new jersey with a particular emphasis on the downtown.

$539k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Community Improvement$2.1MRecreation & Sports$143kEducation$90k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $499,986, the rows itemized in this filing. The $539,342 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $39,356 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$171k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NJ$200,000
THE AMERICAN GRAFFITI MUSEUM INC$50,000
UIH FAMILY PARTNER INC DBA THE FATHER CENTER OF NJ$25,000
CROSSROADS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND$25,000
STATE OF NJ DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY - MATERNAL AND INFANT HEALTH INNOVATION$25,000
NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC$25,000
BUILDING A BETTER WAY FOR TRENTON$20,000
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF NEW JERSEY$20,000
THE PASSAGE THEATRE CO INC$20,000
TRENTON DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC$20,000
TRENTON CENTER OF AMERICAN POTTERY INCORPORATED$15,000
NATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS AND LEARNING OF TRENTON$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MERCER COUNTY INC$10,000
ARTWORKS TRENTON INC$9,986
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UIH FAMILY PARTNER INC DBA THE FATHER CENTER OF NJ: $25k → 11%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 3 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
1

Total granted

$2.3M
$37k

Still filing today

33%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CO
    CITY OF TRENTON
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2.1M
  • DV
    DE Valley Regional Planning Commission
    2× · 2021–2022 · $143k
  • PF
    PNC FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $129k · revenue +585%

Funded once

  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2024 · $37k
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
New Jersey Alliance for Culture Change
Health
2
New Brunswick Development Corporation
Human Services
3
South Jersey Cultural Alliance

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce

The middlesex county regional chamber of commerce has served as the areas premier source of business networking, education and government advocacy for more than 100 years. we partner with member organizations who have over 50,000 employees…

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5
Vericon Foundation a Nj Nonprofit Corporation
Human Services
6
New Jersey Council of County Colleges

To perform statewide coordinating functions for New Jerseys community colleges and develop community-college led partnerships and solutions to expand educational and economic opportunity.

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7
Blue Curtain a Nj NonProfit Corporation

Entertainment

Arts & Culture
8
Guttenberg Arts a Nj Nonprofit Corp
Arts & Culture
9
Trenton Firefighters Association
Public Benefit
10
Trenton Health Team Inc

Trenton Health Team's mission is to improve community health and well-being in the community of greater Trenton, New Jersey.

Health
11
The Princeton Festival a Nj Non-Profit Corporation

To enrich the communities we serve through a multi-dimensional, world-class performing arts summer festival. We create programs that excite, inform, inspire, and invite discovery and engagement as we aspire to become a nationally…

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12
Capital City Community Foundation Inc

We are a community foundation whose mission is making Trenton even better through community engagement, building pride, and community focused giving. We fund grassroots projects and groups doing innovative and inspiring work.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trenton Downtown Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pnc Foundation. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 19 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
4/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF TRENTON: $2,059,642 · OtherCITY OF TRENTONDE Valley Regional Planning Commission: $142,709 · OtherDE Valley Regional Planning CommissionPNC FOUNDATION: $129,000 · Other+4 more: $106,900 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE AMERICAN GRAFFITI MUSEUM INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCROSSROADS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePassage Theatre Company Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTRENTON CENTER OF AMERICAN POTTERY INCORPORATED: $15,000 · Arts & CultureArtworks Trenton Inc: $9,986 · Arts & CultureLATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalBUILDING A BETTER WAY FOR TRENTON I: $20,000 · Crime & LegalUIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey: $25,000 · Human ServicesAfrican-American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey: $20,000 · Community ImprovementBoys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS & LEARNING OF TRENTON INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,438,251Philanthropy$200,000Arts & Culture$119,986Crime & Legal$45,000Human Services$25,000Community Improvement$20,000Youth Development$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPNC FOUNDATION: $129,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN GRAFFITI MUSEUM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY FUTURE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTrenton Downtown Association Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPassage Theatre Company Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTRENTON CENTER OF AMERICAN POTTERY INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArtworks Trenton Inc: $9,986 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greater Trenton Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Trenton Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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