· Public charity
Hudson Lutheran Charity Inc
Provide support to orginations that serve children, elderly individuals, families in need and religious institutions of any denomination.
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
- $10k–50k24 grants · $490k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP NEJEDA | $116,000 |
| THE WE PROJECT | $110,000 |
| FRANCISCAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $100,015 |
| HEARTS OF JOY INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $80,100 |
| BACKPACKS FOR THE STREET | $80,000 |
| PEACE CARE ST JOSEPH'S NURSING HOME | $76,400 |
| THE ALEX CABRERA FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| GOOD SHEPARD LUTHERAN CHURCH | $55,000 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI FOOD PANTRY | $50,000 |
| FIRST FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY & NEW YORK | $50,000 |
| ST MATTHEW TRINITY LUNCHTIME MINISTRY | $50,000 |
| HUDSON PRIDE | $50,000 |
| ALBANIAN AND AMERICAN OPEN HAND ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| OMEGA SUPPORT 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, $910k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 14 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k 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
- TWTHE WE PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $535k · revenue +9% · 97% of their budget
CAMP NEJEDA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $322k · revenue +312%- FCFRANCISCAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF FAIRVIEW4× · 2021–2024 · $305k · revenue +659% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- MIMEEST-AMERICA INCone grant, 2022 · $120k
- HVHoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corpgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +60% · 29% of their budget
- PEPALISADES EMERGENCY RESIDENCE CORPone grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +9%
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.
Assist NJ marginalized residents
Assit disabled veterans and their families with resources including jobs, housing, clothing, therapy and food
Dedicated to alleviating hunger and poverty in Atlantic City, NJ by bringing together individual donors, volunteers, and funding sources to provide food and other resources to people in need
The organization's mission is to provide households experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, an opportunity to achieve stability by providing comprehensive shelter diversion/homeless prevention, or transitional housing…
The organizaton operates daily and weekly food pantries in bridgewater, bound brook, somerville, manville, north plainfield and the va in lyons(all in somerest county, new jersey). the organization meets emergency food needs on a daily…
The Chester Mendham Food Pantry provides local families in need with supplemental food and supplies. We have helped over 75 families.
To provide food, clothing, household goods and other services to people in need who live in montclair, nj and other neighboring communities in essex county
To assist the ocean city, nj community with food, clothing and shelter needs intially the assistance was directed to victims of hurricane sandy, but the organization now assists the community with all general needs.
The warehouse nj helps individuals and families who have experienced homelessness to successfully transition into their new apartment with donated furniture and household items and other essential needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peace Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alex Cabrera Family Foundation. 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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 73 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 THE WE PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEJEDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF FAIRVIEW ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER HELPING OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Alex Cabrera Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUDSON COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDMAS LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS OF JOY INTERNATIONAL CORP ↗
- Who funds Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp ↗
- Who funds JERSEY CITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HAND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PALISADES EMERGENCY RESIDENCE CORP ↗
- Who funds BAYONNE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE SANDWICH AT A TIME ↗
- Who funds WOMEN RISING INC ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS J SACCO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Omega Support Services Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TOMS RIVER HOUSING AND HOMELESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS FOR PEOPLE 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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Provident Bank Foundation · Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc · Table to Table Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation
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 Hudson Lutheran Charity 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.
- Women Rising Inc — 59% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- The Waterfront Project Inc — 32% of income from government
- Bayonne Economic Opportunity Foundation — 22% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Arcdiocese of Newark — 1% of income from government
- Act Now Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Computers for People Inc — 0% of income from government
- Marblejam Kids Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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