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Joy Street 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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MHealth$557kEducation$127kHousing & Shelter$61kEnvironment$32kYouth Development$25kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.2M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUNDKIMBERMCDONALD FAMILY FUND$1,081,814
CHILDRENS FOUNDATION OF NJ THE KIMBER 3 FAMILY FUND$1,081,814
FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRESCHOOL$100,000
OVERLOOK FOUNDATION$50,000
MV YOUTH$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
THE CENETARY FUND$5,000
FAMILY PROMISE$5,000
FAMILY SERVICE MORRIS COUNTY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%PLAID HOUSE: $1k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $500 → 4%CHILDREN ON THE GREEN: $200 → 4%CHILDREN ON THE GREEN: $200 → 4%CHILDREN ON THE GREEN: $200 → 4%CHILDREN ON THE GREEN: $200 → 4%CHILDREN ON THE GREEN: $200 → 4%PLAID HOUSE: $100 → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
DE
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$858k · 28 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
46

Total granted

$858k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+42%

Still filing today

61%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OF
    OVERLOOK FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +121%
  • FF
    Foundation for Morristown Medical Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +28%
  • FAMILY PROMISE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +483%

Funded once

  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF MORRIS COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +121%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • CU
    CENTENARY UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue -14%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture
2
Nj State Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Assoc Inc

It is the mission of the new jersey firefighters mutual benevolent association to represent, protect, and educate the firefighters, emts, and dispatchers throughout the state of new jersey through representation at the local, state, and…

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3
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
9
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs; the most unlike its peers is Chilmark Volunteer Firemans Assn Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 81 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
37/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUNDKIMBERMCDONALD FAMILY FUND: $1,081,814 · OtherGOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUNDKIMBERMCDONALD FAMILY FUNDCHILDRENS FOUNDATION OF NJ THE KIMBER 3 FAMILY FUND: $1,081,814 · OtherCHILDRENS FOUNDATION OF NJ THE KIMBER 3 FAMILY FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $155,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $125,000 · Other+55 more: $157,885 · Other+55 moreOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $185,000 · HealthOVERLOOK FOUN…Foundation for Morristown Medical Center: $120,000 · HealthFoundation fo…INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · HealthINDIAN RIVER …FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EducationCENTENARY UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationTHE WINSTON SCHOOL: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $75 · EducationFAMILY PROMISE INC: $37,500 · Housing & ShelterGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC: $19,000 · EnvironmentSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EnvironmentPOLLY HILL ARBORETUM INC: $2,000 · Environment+4 more: $2,600 · EnvironmentMV YOUTH INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBONNIE BRAE: $20,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesPLAID HOUSE INC: $1,100 · Human ServicesCHILDREN ON THE GREEN INC: $1,000 · Human Services+2 more: $575 · Human Services
Other$2,601,513Health$395,000Education$112,075Housing & Shelter$37,500Environment$31,600Youth Development$25,000Human Services$24,675

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $37,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMV YOUTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBONNIE BRAE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC: $19,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF MORRIS COUNTY INC: $11,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTENARY UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WINSTON SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLANDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLLY HILL ARBORETUM INC: $2,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $1,440 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAID HOUSE INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN ON THE GREEN INC: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARDING LAND TRUST: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREEVES - REED ARBORETUM: $650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChilmark Volunteer Firemans Assn Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN'S ISLAND EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD SHELLFISH GROUP INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILMARK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VALERIE FUND ↗
  • Who funds MV YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds BONNIE BRAE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF MORRIS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTENARY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WINSTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds POLLY HILL ARBORETUM INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…Fm Kirby Foundation I…Healey Family Foundat…Ej Grassmann TrustInvestors Foundation …Gretchen V & Samuel M…The Goldman Sachs Cha…South Mountain Compan…The Paula and William…If Hummingbird Founda…United Way of Norther…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ26.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Healey Family Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · Investors Foundation Inc · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · South Mountain Company Foundation · The Paula and William J Marino Family Foundation · If Hummingbird Foundation Inc · United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joy Street Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joy Street Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Family Promise of Morris County Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Plaid House Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Homeless Solutions Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Family Programs: 3% of income from government
  • Bonnie Brae: 3% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Children On the Green Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Reeves - Reed Arboretum: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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