· Public charity
Isles Inc
Isles' mission is to foster self-reliant families and healthy, sustainable communities, we design and develop effective services that support this mission and share what we learn with others who can make a difference.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $311,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $359,501 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,501 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 120 EAST STATE ST | $170,000 |
| A BETTER WAY | $75,000 |
| I AM TRENTON COMMUNITY | $66,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $373k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +38% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k 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
- NJNEW JERSEY SHARES INC3× · 2019–2022 · $356k · revenue +965%
TRENTON HEALTH TEAM INC3× · 2019–2022 · $76k · revenue +38%- TDTrenton Downtown Association Inc3× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- 2E219 EAST HANOVER STREET LLCone grant, 2020 · $117k
HOMEFRONT INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +73%- MSMERCER STREET FRIENDS FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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.
Provide compassionate quality services to assist vulnerable individuals and families to improve their quality of life and to become self sufficient by addressing the impacts of poverty.
New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.
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.
To support the trenton, mo downtown business community.
West Windsor Arts cultivates the artist within us all, while inspiring a creative community that is engaged, inclusive and equitable.
Job creation, attracting & retaining businesses and other economic development activities by providing grants and below-market rate loan programs through Urban Enterprise
Promote social and economic development of trenton nj organically via internal resources
Our mission is to promote the health and well-being of our Hunterdon County community. We offer choices of nutritious foods and essentials, foster resource connections, provide tailored programming, and respect the dignity of our neighbors…
The Paterson Alliance is a coalition of more than 100 nonprofits serving the Paterson community. We bring together nonprofit members and other stakeholders such as businesses, the school district and city and county officials to address…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smith Family Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 36 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 NEW JERSEY SHARES INC ↗
- Who funds TRENTON HEALTH TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds Capital City Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Trenton Downtown Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds Smith Family Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARM IN ARM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LOAN FUND OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Inspired-Threads Inc ↗
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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Isles Inc 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.
- Trenton Downtown Association Inc — 33% of income from government
- Trenton Health Team Inc — 31% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc — 3% 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.