· Community foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer Inc
The foundation is organized to promote philanthropy and to further the charitable needs of the jewish community, other charitable institutions, and community organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 56 grants below total $1,660,218 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,978,237 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $318,019 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $165k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $462k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $211,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $169,023 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION PRINCETON MERCER | $143,236 |
| GREENDWOOD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $106,299 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES | $96,700 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $80,699 |
| JEWISH CENTER | $71,645 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOR | $55,000 |
| HOMEFRONT INC | $45,530 |
| EZRAS CHOLIM OF ARIZONA | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADO | $33,600 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $32,600 |
| ISLES INC | $26,000 |
| TEMPLE MICAH | $26,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +20% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k 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
Jewish Family & Childrens Services of Greater Mercer County Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +71%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE9× · 2017–2025 · $854k · revenue +116%
GREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED8× · 2017–2024 · $845k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $132k
- OFONE FAMILY FUNDone grant, 2024 · $55k · revenue 0%
- FFFoundation for Morristown Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +46%
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
88 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. 88 of the 111 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 UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF PRINCETON MERCER BUCKS INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family & Childrens Services of Greater Mercer County Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MERCER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA HARR SHANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds ABRAMS HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA KOSHER FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMANSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Anne and Gerald Freedman Charitable Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Educational Ventures Inc
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 Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer 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.
- Womanspace Inc — 47% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey — 8% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% 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.