· Private foundation
Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw
Its FY2026 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 FY2018–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- $10k–50k16 grants · $448k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCEAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES | $50,000 |
| MONTCLAIR AMBULANCE UNIT | $50,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER | $50,000 |
| FOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH | $40,000 |
| CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN | $40,000 |
| NOURISH NJ | $40,000 |
| GRACE CHURCH | $35,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY | $30,000 |
| NEWARK EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR FAMILIES | $27,310 |
| MARKET STREET MISSION | $25,251 |
| DIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY TRINITY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| ST PAUL'S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| YWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTRY | $25,000 |
| NEW JERSEY COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–26, $827k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 41% 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 +19% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2026, 19 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k 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
FAMILY PROMISE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $280k · revenue +283%- CHCommunity Hope Inc5× · 2018–2025 · $250k · revenue +19%
- BOBRIDGES OUTREACH INC6× · 2018–2023 · $190k · revenue +194%
Funded once
- WCWALLACE CHAPEL AME ZION CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $55k
- FHFREEDOM HOUSE INCone grant, 2025 · $50k
- ASALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
New hope integrated behavioral health care, inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, provides commission on the accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf) and nj licensed substance use and co-occurring mental health disorder…
The organization's mission is to increase local services and resources for the homeless. miph provides affordable permanent housing in central new jersey, giving families a stable place to live while they prepare for their lives free from…
To provide permanent supportive housing opportunities coupled with innovative support services empowering indivduals to live independently with dignity and to fullfull their utmost potential.
The mission of advance housing, inc. is to expand the range and scope of supportive housing opportunities available to persons with psychiatric disabilities. in addition, we will seek to make similar options and services available to other…
Rescue Mission of Trenton, New Jersey serves the truly needy men and women who have no place to turn for shelter, food, and clothing. The Organization provides a safe, clean, and warm refuge for the homeless, the hungry, the transient, and…
Center for hope and safety, inc.'s ("chs") mission is to assist bergen county, nj victims and survivors of domestic violence, including emotional, economic, sexual and physical abuse. the agency provides emergency and transitional housing,…
Homesharing's mission is to create affordable housing solutions by matching those seeking housing with those who need additional income or services to maintain their homes, while fostering independence and dignity.
Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…
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…
The primary mission of isaiah house, inc. (organization") is to reduce the prevalence of homelessness throughout essex county and specifically within the oranges and surrounding areas. through a variety of programs, the organization works…
To provide short term, transitional and permanent housing, homelessness prevention, personalized case management, mental health care, on-site nursing, vocational training, substance abuse counseling, recreational activities and other vital…
Enhancing individuals' lives in the community through the provision of residential and supportive services which promote hope, wellness, and recovery.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ocean's Harbor House Inc. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 64 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 FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HABCORE INC ↗
- Who funds 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds COPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAULS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S KESWICK ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RIGHTS INFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER MONMOUTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR AMBULANCE UNIT ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC BRIGHT HARBOR HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds VISION LOSS ALLIANCE OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHNJ 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 · Investors Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Kearnybank Foundation Inc · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · Catholic Human Services Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity 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 Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw 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.
- The Bridge Inc — 79% of income from government
- Ocean's Harbor House Inc — 75% of income from government
- 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
- Project Hope Inc — 51% of income from government
- Habcore Inc — 50% of income from government
- United Community Corporation — 45% of income from government
- Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Bridges Outreach Inc — 25% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Women's Rights Information Center — 16% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Ywca of Eastern Union County Inc — 8% of income from government
- Ocean Mental Health Services Inc Bright Harbor Healthcare — 5% of income from government
- Turning Point Inc — 5% of income from government
- Freedom House Inc — 4% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sierra House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Montclair Ambulance Unit — 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.