· Public charity
Montclair Foundation Inc
The Montclair Foundation nurtures growth in our community through support and grant giving to local non-profits and the preservation of the historic Van Vleck House & Gardens which are open to the public.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $89,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $175,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $86,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Montclair Ambulance Unit | $15,000 |
| Imani Inc | $10,000 |
| Human Needs Food Pantry | $10,000 |
| Tonis Kitchen | $10,000 |
| Succeed2gether | $10,000 |
| Main Street Counseling Center | $10,000 |
| Family Promise of Essex Count | $10,000 |
| MESH | $7,000 |
| Kindersmile Foundation | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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 +24% since the first grant, against -47% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- HNHUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +52%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX COUNTY INC5× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +136%
- MSMAIN STREET COUNSELING CENTER4× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- TMTHE MONTCLAIR ORCHESTRA INCone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -47%
- MMESHone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
The mission of the mental health association is to promote mental health and total wellness for individuals facing challenges associated with mental illness and addiction recovery. we increase community awareness while enhancing mental…
Assist NJ marginalized residents
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To meet the healthcare needs of our community by providing cost-effective quality care. to educate present and future generations of healthcare providers. to provide a continuum of regional tertiary care. please refer to the organization's…
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…
CONTACT of Mercer County NJ, Inc. provides compassionate, confidential telephone crisis intervention for those who are in emotional turmoil, thinking about suicide, experiencing loneliness, or facing the challenges of mental illness.…
We are a family company that helps connect families and individuals with our friendly professionals. We have Coaching Services handled by our Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) in Supported Employment, Pre-Vocational Training, Community…
Bridgeway Behavioral Services facilitates, promotes, and fosters recovery from mental illness and co-occurring problems. We inspire and support individuals to become productive citizens who are fully engaged in their communities by…
The mental health association in essex county advocates and assists adults with emotional or psychiatric challenges on their road to recovery, dignity and independence-encourage, empower & overcome.
The Chester Mendham Food Pantry provides local families in need with supplemental food and supplies. We have helped over 75 families.
Mental Health Association in Passaic County, Inc. (MHAPC) is a local chapter of the Mental Health Association in NJ and an affiliate of the Mental Health America. The mission of the MHAPC is to serve children, adults and families affected…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Essex County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Imani Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR AMBULANCE UNIT ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS AT HOME NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds IMANI Inc ↗
- Who funds SUCCEED2GETHER INC ↗
- Who funds KINDERSMILE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTCLAIR ORCHESTRA 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: Partners for Health Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Sonder Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Montclair Fund for Women Inc · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Whitehill Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation · Schumann Fund for New Jersey Inc · Turrell Fund · Pseg Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ
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 Montclair Foundation 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.
- Family Promise of Essex County Inc — 33% of income from government
- Partners for Women and Justice Inc — 26% of income from government
- Kindersmile Foundation Inc — 3% 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.