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Maher Charitable 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 $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $333k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Clinton Hill Community Action | $975,000 |
| Rutgers University Foundation | $320,166 |
| Institute for Citizens and Scholars | $250,000 |
| NJ Chamber of Commerce Foundation | $100,000 |
| Advocates For Children of NJ | $100,000 |
| Community Foundation of New Jersey | $82,772 |
| Newark Alliance | $50,000 |
| Far Brook School | $44,300 |
| William Paterson U Found | $40,000 |
| Teachers College Columbia U | $29,728 |
| Council of NJ Grantmakers | $25,000 |
| New Jersey Future | $7,500 |
| Third Sector New England | $7,500 |
| NJ EarlyEd Infrastructure Alliance | $20 |
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 (FY20–23, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- CHCLINTON HILL COMMUNITY ACTION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +637% · 60% of their budget
- IFINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS2× · 2023–2024 · $465k · revenue +188%
- FBFAR BROOK SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $298k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $250k
- NCNewark Community Street Team Incone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +2%
GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2023 · $112k · revenue +23%
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.
Promotes empowerment of low and middle income people through research, education, and training around public policy issues and direct counseling services.
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.
New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.
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
To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.
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 provide vision and leadership to advance the interest of the food industry in new jersey.
New jersey institute for social justice (the institute), a public charity, is a newark-based urban research and advocacy organization dedicated to the advancement of new jersey's urban areas and residents.
The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by promoting…
The mission of the scholarship fund is to attract the best and the brightest of new jersey students and residents into the accounting profession and to support attaining the certified public accountant designation.
To advance member interests, operational and environmental excellence, science,education, and community outreach in New Jersey.
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education and the most unlike its peers is Math for America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 CLINTON HILL COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds FAR BROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds Ironbound Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds Newark Community Street Team Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRAMS FOR PARENTS INC ↗
- Who funds MATH FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Newark Alliance INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC NEWS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HILL COMMUNITY AND EARLY CHILDHO ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds La Casa De Don Pedro Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Day Nursery and Family Center ↗
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 · Victoria Foundation Inc · The Prudential Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · South Ward Alliance · Schumann Fund for New Jersey Inc · Turrell Fund · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/A United Way of Greater Newark · Devils Youth Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank 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 Maher Charitable 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.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Programs for Parents Inc — 92% of income from government
- La Casa De Don Pedro Inc — 58% of income from government
- Newark Community Street Team Inc — 38% of income from government
- Clinton Hill Community and Early Childho — 22% of income from government
- New Jersey Future Inc — 7% of income from government
- Newark Alliance Inc — 6% of income from government
- Clinton Hill Community Action Inc — 6% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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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