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Hudson Lutheran Charity Inc

Provide support to orginations that serve children, elderly individuals, families in need and religious institutions of any denomination.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$116k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.1MHuman Services$905kHealth$686kEducation$612kReligion$506kRecreation & Sports$322kCrime & Legal$255kHousing & Shelter$190kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k24 grants · $490k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.0M
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP NEJEDA$116,000
THE WE PROJECT$110,000
FRANCISCAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER$100,015
HEARTS OF JOY INTERNATIONAL$100,000
ST JOSEPH'S SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$80,100
BACKPACKS FOR THE STREET$80,000
PEACE CARE ST JOSEPH'S NURSING HOME$76,400
THE ALEX CABRERA FOUNDATION$60,000
GOOD SHEPARD LUTHERAN CHURCH$55,000
ST MATTHEW TRINITY LUNCHTIME MINISTRY$50,000
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI FOOD PANTRY$50,000
ALBANIAN AND AMERICAN OPEN HAND ASSOCIATION$50,000
HUDSON PRIDE$50,000
FIRST FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY & NEW YORK$50,000
OMEGA SUPPORT CENTER$40,000
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 (FY20–24, $910k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ONE SANDWICH AT A TIME: $30k → 9%ALBANIAN AND AMERICAN OPEN HAND ASSOCIATION: $50k → 28%MOM'S HELPING MOMS: $10k → 5%CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $45k → 8%ONE SANDWICH AT A TIME: $25k → 9%ALBANIAN AND AMERICAN OPEN HAND ASSOCIATION: $30k → 28%BACKPACKS FOR THE STREET: $80k → 17%BACKPACKS FOR THE STREET: $70k → 17%BACKPACKS FOR THE STREET: $40k → 17%BACKPACKS FOR THE STREET: $10k → 17%FRANCISCAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $100k → 7%FRANCISCAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $100k → 7%FRANCISCAN COMM DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $70k → 7%FRANCISCAN COMM DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $35k → 7%BAYONNE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%BAYONNE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%ST LUCY'S EMERGENCY SHELTER: $30k → 14%CAMP FATIMA: $10k → 14%ACT NOW FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ACT NOW FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%WOMEN RISING INC: $45k → 14%WOMEN RISING INC: $10k → 14%COMPUTERS FOR PEOPLE: $30k → 14%HAVEN ADOLESCENT COMM RESPITE CENTER: $10k → 14%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 29 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
30

Total granted

$4.0M
$734k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+14%

Still filing today

59%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyRecreation & 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

  • TW
    THE WE PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $535k · revenue +9% · 97% of their budget
  • CAMP NEJEDA FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $322k · revenue +312%
  • FC
    FRANCISCAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF FAIRVIEW
    4× · 2021–2024 · $305k · revenue +659% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • MI
    MEEST-AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $120k
  • HV
    Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corpgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +60% · 29% of their budget
  • PE
    PALISADES EMERGENCY RESIDENCE CORP
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +9%
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
Companeros De Comida Food Initiative Inc

Assist NJ marginalized residents

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2
New Jersey Veterans Network Inc

Assit disabled veterans and their families with resources including jobs, housing, clothing, therapy and food

Public Benefit
3
The Friends of Jean Webster Inc

Dedicated to alleviating hunger and poverty in Atlantic City, NJ by bringing together individual donors, volunteers, and funding sources to provide food and other resources to people in need

Housing & Shelter
4
Jersey Strong Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Family Promise of Southwest Nj

The organization's mission is to provide households experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, an opportunity to achieve stability by providing comprehensive shelter diversion/homeless prevention, or transitional housing…

Human Services
6
The Food Bank Network of Somerset County Inc

The organizaton operates daily and weekly food pantries in bridgewater, bound brook, somerville, manville, north plainfield and the va in lyons(all in somerest county, new jersey). the organization meets emergency food needs on a daily…

Food & Nutrition
7
Chester Mendham Food Pantry a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation

The Chester Mendham Food Pantry provides local families in need with supplemental food and supplies. We have helped over 75 families.

Food & Nutrition
8
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
9
Catholic Christmas Campaign Inc
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10
Ocnj Care a Nj Nonprofit Corp

To assist the ocean city, nj community with food, clothing and shelter needs intially the assistance was directed to victims of hurricane sandy, but the organization now assists the community with all general needs.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Warehouse Nj

The warehouse nj helps individuals and families who have experienced homelessness to successfully transition into their new apartment with donated furniture and household items and other essential needs.

Human Services
12
Live Like Jonathan a Nj Non Profit Corp
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peace Care Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alex Cabrera Family 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

44 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. 44 of the 73 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
26/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WE PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $535,000 · OtherTHE WE PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATIONCONCORDIA LEARNING CENTER AT ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $437,100 · OtherCONCORDIA LEARNING CENTER AT ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDPEACE CARE ST JOSEPH'S NURSING HOME: $297,400 · OtherPEACE CARE ST JOSEPH'S NURSING HOMEGOOD SHEPARD LUTHERAN CHURCH: $250,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPARD LUTHERAN CHURCHST MATTHEW'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $180,000 · OtherST MATTHEW'S LUTHERAN CHURCHMEEST-AMERICA INC: $120,000 · OtherHEARTS OF JOY INTERNATIONAL CORP: $100,000 · Other+35 more: $985,000 · Other+35 moreFRANCISCAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF FAIRVIEW: $305,015 · Human ServicesFRANCISCAN COMMUNITY…TOGETHER HELPING OTHERS INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER HELPING OTH…OPEN HAND ASSOCIATION INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesOPEN HAND ASSOCIATIO…BAYONNE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesBAYONNE ECONOMIC OPP…WOMEN RISING INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN RISING INCONE SANDWICH AT A TIME: $55,000 · Human ServicesONE SANDWICH AT A TI…CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $45,000 · Human ServicesOmega Support Services Center Inc: $40,000 · Human Services+6 more: $110,000 · Human Services+6 moreCAMP NEJEDA FOUNDATION INC: $322,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP SUREFIRE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC: $145,000 · Food & NutritionGRANDMAS LOVE INC: $110,000 · Food & NutritionWestfield Food Pantry: $10,000 · Food & NutritionTABLE TO TABLE INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFIRST FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK CORPORATION: $145,000 · Crime & LegalHUDSON COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $125,000 · Crime & LegalHoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp: $100,000 · HealthJERSEY CITY CONNECTIONS INC: $95,000 · HealthMARBLEJAM KIDS INC: $20,000 · HealthPEACE CARE INC: $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthAlex Cabrera Family Foundation: $135,000 · PhilanthropyJazz Foundation of America Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyBACKPACKS FOR LIFE INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,904,500Human Services$950,015Recreation & Sports$342,000Food & Nutrition$275,000Crime & Legal$270,000Health$250,000Philanthropy$165,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WE PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $535,000 over 5y, 97% of budgetCAMP NEJEDA FOUNDATION INC: $322,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetFRANCISCAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF FAIRVIEW: $305,015 over 4y, 33% of budgetTOGETHER HELPING OTHERS INC: $200,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetFIRST FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK CORPORATION: $145,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC: $145,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetAlex Cabrera Family Foundation: $135,000 over 3y, 76% of budgetHUDSON COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $125,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetGRANDMAS LOVE INC: $110,000 over 3y, 64% of budgetHoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp: $100,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetHEARTS OF JOY INTERNATIONAL CORP: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetJERSEY CITY CONNECTIONS INC: $95,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetOPEN HAND ASSOCIATION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetPALISADES EMERGENCY RESIDENCE CORP: $70,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBAYONNE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWOMEN RISING INC: $55,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetONE SANDWICH AT A TIME: $55,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetCATHEDRAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $45,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetNICHOLAS J SACCO FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetOmega Support Services Center Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTOMS RIVER HOUSING AND HOMELESS COALITION: $35,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetCOMPUTERS FOR PEOPLE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION (107 HOBOKEN POST): $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF NEW JERSEY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARBLEJAM KIDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCAMP SUREFIRE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACT NOW FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPEACE CARE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetYOUTH FOUNDATION OF JERSEY CITY INC FORMERLY JERSEY CITY YOUTH FOUNDATION IN: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCAMP FATIMA OF NEW JERSEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget1ST CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW JERSEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTABLE TO TABLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Waterfront Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHaven Adolescent Respite Center: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBACKPACKS FOR LIFE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 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 THE WE PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMP NEJEDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISCAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF FAIRVIEW ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER HELPING OTHERS INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Alex Cabrera Family Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds GRANDMAS LOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS OF JOY INTERNATIONAL CORP ↗
  • Who funds JERSEY CITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN HAND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PALISADES EMERGENCY RESIDENCE CORP ↗
  • Who funds BAYONNE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN RISING INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE SANDWICH AT A TIME ↗
  • Who funds CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds NICHOLAS J SACCO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Omega Support Services Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds TOMS RIVER HOUSING AND HOMELESS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds COMPUTERS FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Provident Bank Fo…Community Food Bank O…Table to Table IncPseg Foundation IncInvestors Foundation …Blue Foundry Charitab…Columbia Bank Foundat…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Citizens Philanthropi…S&P Global Foundation…Chubb Charitable Foun…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ26.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Provident Bank Foundation · Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc · Table to Table Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation

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 Hudson Lutheran Charity Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hudson Lutheran Charity Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Women Rising Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
  • The Waterfront Project Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Bayonne Economic Opportunity Foundation: 22% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of the Arcdiocese of Newark: 1% of income from government
  • Act Now Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Computers for People Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Marblejam Kids Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Hudson Lutheran Charity 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.

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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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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