· Private foundation
John a and Margaret Post Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $170k
- $10k–50k62 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH STREET THEATER CO INC | $200,000 |
| CENTENARY UNIVERSITY | $165,000 |
| GREATER VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $125,000 |
| GREATER EASTON DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP | $125,000 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL | $125,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| FATHER JOHNS ANIMAL HOUSE | $100,000 |
| PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC | $75,000 |
| NEWTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| ST VINCENT ACADEMY | $60,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR HACKETTSTOWN MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC | $50,000 |
| CAMP NEJEDA FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY | $41,600 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER | $40,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 37% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of John a and Margaret Post Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 38% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
127 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $447k 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
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL4× · 2021–2024 · $500k · revenue +81%
- FJFATHER JOHNS ANIMAL HOUSE5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +43%
- SSSOUTH STREET THEATER COMPANY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $355k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENTone grant, 2020 · $125k
- HCHOPESPRINGS CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $75k
- TDTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +281%
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.
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
The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…
Carelink community support services of new jersey's mission is to assist adult citizens of nj living with psychiatric disability in acquiring the tools necessary to live health and fulfilling lives.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The mission of the children's home society of new jersey is to save children's lives and build healthy families. chs provides at-risk children and their families with a range of culturally sensitive social services that strengthen, support…
To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.
We heal, comfort, and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
Children's day nursery is a private, non-profit childcare and preschool education program which seeks to provide the highest quality care to 118 children and their families who attend our center. (see schedule o for details)
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…
To build the power of new jersey's nonprofit community to improve the quality of life for all people of our state.
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hoop Dreams- Live-Learn-Hoop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 40 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
178 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. 178 of the 225 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GREATER VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FATHER JOHNS ANIMAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH STREET THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Easton Development Partnership ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CENTENARY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds HCSC - BLOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEWTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN INN INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds Community Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SCARC INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT BETHEL VOL FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Christian School ↗
- Who funds LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds TRAILBLAZER CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEJEDA FOUNDATION 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: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation 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 John a and Margaret Post Foundation 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.
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- Employment Horizons Inc — 90% of income from government
- Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
- Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc — 38% of income from government
- Zufall Health Center Inc — 32% of income from government
- Family Promise of Sussex County Inc — 32% of income from government
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
- Cumacecho Inc — 25% of income from government
- Abilities of Northwest Jersey Inc — 22% of income from government
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
- Urban League of Essex County — 20% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service & Children's Center of Clifton-Passaicinc — 19% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- El Primer Paso Ltd — 13% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- Homeless Solutions Inc — 6% of income from government
- Dover Child Care Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Center for Prevention & Counseling — 4% of income from government
- Freedom House Inc — 4% of income from government
- Alternatives Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bonnie Brae — 3% of income from government
- Saint Elizabeth University — 2% of income from government
- Caldwell University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc — 2% of income from government
- Children's Aid and Family Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Georgian Court University — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj — 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- Samaritan Inn Inc — 0% of income from government
- Community Options Inc — 0% of income from government
- Scarc 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.
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