· Private foundation
Johanette Wallerstein Institute 5607-00-43
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $180,000 |
| Clientearth USA Inc | $75,000 |
| Cool Earth Action USA Inc | $70,000 |
| Rainforest Alliance Inc | $70,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy in New Jersey | $65,000 |
| Trust for Public Land | $40,000 |
| New Jersey Conservation Foundation | $30,000 |
| Greater Newark Conservancy | $30,000 |
| Riverkeeper Inc | $30,000 |
| Nature Conservancy | $25,000 |
| Conservation International Foundation | $25,000 |
| The Land Conservancy of New Jersey | $20,000 |
| New Jersey Highlands Coalition | $20,000 |
| Pinelands Preservation Alliance | $15,000 |
| Pacific Institute | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of your 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC4× · 2022–2025 · $660k · revenue +34%- RARAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $280k · revenue +19%
- CUCLIENTEARTH USA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $270k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- CECool Earth USA Incone grant, 2022 · $70k
- CECOOL EARTH ACTION USA INCone grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue -3%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Clean ocean action's goal is to improve and protect the waters off the new jersey/new york coast from pollution, plastics, industrialization and climate change with research, education and citizen action.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
Unite all americans to ensure wildlife thrives in a rapidly changing world.
Wild landscapes, inc. (wli) is dedicated to conserving large and connected landscapes globally significant to wildlife and crucial to local communities. our environmental conservation strategy is to empower communities, conservationists,…
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Newark Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 24 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 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CLIENTEARTH USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOL EARTH ACTION USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY TREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HACKENSACK RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION ↗
- Who funds RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RARITAN BAYKEEPER 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: Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Victoria Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund · Ej Grassmann Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · New Jersey Conservation Foundation · The Leavens Foundation Inc · Fund for New Jersey
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 Johanette Wallerstein Institute 5607-00-43 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.
- New Jersey Tree Foundation — 100% of income from government
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc — 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.