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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.

$598k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2026
18
Organizations funded FY2025
50%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$25,251
Largest grant, FY2026
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 18
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
3
Total assets, FY2026
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 50% of the organizations Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyReligionHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving19$598k63%
FY202518$581k50%
FY202417$504k47%
FY202314$372k50%
FY202216$447k25%
FY202115$444k27%
FY202013$354k38%
FY20198$385k13%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2026.

Housing & Shelter$1.3MReligion$1.1MHealth$643kHuman Services$392kFood & Nutrition$165kPublic Benefit$150kCommunity Improvement$100kCivil Rights$100kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family Promise Inc$280,00071%
Community Hope Inc$250,00050%
Bridges Outreach Inc$190,00063%
Habcore Inc$175,00071%
180 Turning Lives Around$150,00060%
Main Street Counseling Center$130,00061%
Lighthouse Guild International Inc$110,00040%
Homefront Inc$100,00040%
Cope Center Inc$100,00045%
St Pauls Community Development Corp$100,00042%
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All grantees of Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family Promise Inc$280,00071%
Community Hope Inc$250,00050%
Bridges Outreach Inc$190,00063%
Habcore Inc$175,00071%
180 Turning Lives Around$150,00060%
Main Street Counseling Center$130,00061%
Lighthouse Guild International Inc$110,00040%
Homefront Inc$100,00040%
Cope Center Inc$100,00045%
St Pauls Community Development Corp$100,00042%
Freedom House Inc$80,00031%
Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc$77,3102n/a
United Way of Bergen County$75,00020%
Habitat for Humanity Inc$55,0003n/a
America's Keswick$51,00030%
Montclair Ambulance Unit$50,0001n/a
Essex County Family Justice Center$50,0001n/a
Habitat for Humanity Northwest New Jersey Inc$50,00021%
Ocean Mental Health Services Inc Bright Harbor Healthcare$50,0001n/a
Women's Rights Information Center$50,00021%
YMCA of Greater Monmouth County Inc$50,00010%
Turning Point Inc$46,16020%
Vision Loss Alliance of New Jersey Inc$45,00023%
Fountain Baptist Church$40,0001n/a
The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc$40,0001n/a
Nourishnj Inc$40,0001n/a
Covenant House New Jersey Inc$30,0001n/a
Project Hope Inc$30,00011%
Market Street Mission Inc$25,2511n/a
Sierra House Inc$25,0001n/a
YWCA of Eastern Union County Inc$25,0001n/a
Habitat for Humanity$25,000111%
Franciscan Charities$25,00015%
Rowan University Foundation Inc$24,9981n/a
Ocean's Harbor House Inc$20,00012%
Eva's Village Inc$20,00010%
Summit Interfaith Council$18,270119%
United Community Corporation$15,00010%
The Bridge Inc$15,00010%
New Jersey Shares Inc$15,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamily Promise Inc: $280,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Hope Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBridges Outreach Inc: $190,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetHabcore Inc: $175,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budget180 Turning Lives Around: $150,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMain Street Counseling Center: $130,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetLighthouse Guild International Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHomefront Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCope Center Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetSt Pauls Community Development Corp: $100,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFreedom House Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Way of Bergen County: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerica's Keswick: $51,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Northwest New Jersey Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWomen's Rights Information Center: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetYMCA of Greater Monmouth County Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTurning Point Inc: $46,160 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVision Loss Alliance of New Jersey Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetProject Hope Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFranciscan Charities: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetOcean's Harbor House Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEva's Village Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSummit Interfaith Council: $18,270 over 1y, 19% of budgetUnited Community Corporation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Bridge Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew Jersey Shares Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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 of New JerseyNJ43.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw

How much does Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw give?
Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw reported 19 grants totaling $597,559 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (31%), Religion (26%), Health (15%).
Who are Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: Family Promise Inc ($280k), Community Hope Inc ($250k), Bridges Outreach Inc ($190k).
Does Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Investors Foundation Inc, The Provident Bank Foundation.
Where is Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw based?
Lydia Collins Deforest Char Tr Uw is based in TX.

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 64 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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