· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 120 EAST STATE ST | $170,000 |
| A BETTER WAY | $75,000 |
| I AM TRENTON COMMUNITY | $66,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NJNEW JERSEY SHARES INC3× · 2019–2022 · $356k · revenue +965%
TRENTON HEALTH TEAM INC3× · 2019–2022 · $76k · revenue +41%- 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
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.
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.
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.
Founded in 1982, the mission of Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) is to feed those who are hungry in the Trenton area and provide programs and services to help enhance self-sufficiency and improve quality of life.In addition to preparing…
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.
Capital Harmony Works empowers young people as teams of musicians, providing an environment of abundant resources and high expectations, and enriching the community through the joyful pursuit of excellence together.
To support the trenton, mo downtown business community.
Entertainment
How this is measured
11 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. 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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- Who funds COMMUNITY LOAN FUND OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Isles Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Isles Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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