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Icare Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Icare Charitable Foundation

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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

International$12kCommunity Improvement$9kEducation$6kRecreation & Sports$3kReligion$3kHuman Services$2kYouth Development$2kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$40k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD TEAM$10,995
NORTH STELTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA$5,250
DAVISVILLE CHURCH$2,500
THE ARC MERCER$1,650
OCEAN CITY CREW BOOSTER$1,000
MARINE TRADES ASSOCIATION OF NJ$700
PLUMSTEAD CHRISTAIN SCHOOL$600
GARDEN STATE COUNCIL$575
HUMANE SOCIETY OF OCEAN CITY$550
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MERCER COUNTY$500
AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY$500
THE JERSEY SHORE PARTNERSHIP$500
ALPHA CARE$250
LOVE CRADLE USA INC$250
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 (FY24–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LOVE CRADLE USA INC: $250 → 7%ATLANTIC CITY DAY NURSERY: $200 → 11%THE ARC MERCER: $2k → 11%THE ARC MERCER: $550 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

PA
NJ
CO
NE
NC
DC
HI
FL
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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9k · 9 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$9k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

78%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • TA
    THE ARCMERCER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +23%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +116%
  • Compassion International Incorporated
    2× · 2024–2025 · $400 · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • HC
    HAYCOCK CAMPING MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • CL
    CARA'S LOVE SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $800
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $600
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
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
2
Marine Stewardship Council

The organization's mission is to work for sustainable marine fisheries by promoting responsible, environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable fisheries practices while maintaining the biodiversity, productivity…

Environment
3
New Jersey Food Council Inc

To provide vision and leadership to advance the interest of the food industry in new jersey.

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4
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
5
Special Olympics New Jersey Inc

To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate…

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6
Insurance Council of Nj Inc

The insurance council of new jersey is an insurance research, information and advocacy organization formed to create a positive image and understanding of the property/casualty insurance business and to promote a positive business…

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7
Chemistry Council of New Jersey

To advance member interests, operational and environmental excellence, science,education, and community outreach in New Jersey.

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8
New Jersey Athletic Conference

Operate an athletic conference to administer the intercollegiate athletic programs of the conference members.

Recreation & Sports
9
Central Jersey Blood Center Inc

See schedule o for complete mission statement.cjbc was founded with a vision to save lives by providing safe, high quality blood products and services to patients in need. entrusted to collect, process and distribute this priceless life…

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10
Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by promoting…

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11
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
12
United Methodist Homes of New Jersey

Compassionately serving in community so that all are free to choose abundant life.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Justice Mission; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

20 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. 20 of the 36 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
7/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD TEAM: $10,995 · OtherWORLD TEAMNORTH STELTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPEMENT CORPORATION: $8,000 · OtherNORTH STELTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPEMENT CORPORATIONDAVISVILLE CHURCH: $2,500 · OtherDAVISVILLE CHURCHPLUMSTEAD CHRISTAIN SCHOOL: $1,200 · Other+21 more: $7,310 · Other+21 moreUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC: $5,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …HOMEFRONT INC: $200 · EducationTHE ARCMERCER INC: $2,200 · Human ServicesLOVE CRADLE USA INC: $250 · Human ServicesATLANTIC CITY DAY NURSERY: $200 · Human ServicesOCEAN CITY CREW BOOSTERS INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $234 · Recreation & SportsMONMOUTH RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB INC: $200 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $1,000 · EnvironmentHUMANE SOCIETY OF OCEAN CITY INC: $850 · AnimalsGARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC: $825 · Community Improvement
Other$30,005Education$5,450Human Services$2,650Recreation & Sports$2,434Environment$1,000Animals$850Community Improvement$825

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARCMERCER INC: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CITY CREW BOOSTERS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHAYCOCK CAMPING MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF OCEAN CITY INC: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC: $825 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JERSEY SHORE PARTNERSHIP INC: $500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $310 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $234 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECIPROCAL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CITY DAY NURSERY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArtworks Trenton Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY: $50 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.

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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb …Oceanfirst FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Icare Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Icare Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Arcmercer Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Artworks Trenton Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Atlantic City Day Nursery: 7% of income from government
  • American Littoral Society: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home