· Private foundation
Montclair Fund for Women Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTCLAIR NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX COUNTY | $10,000 |
| YWCA EASTERN UNION COUNTY | $10,000 |
| JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC | $8,000 |
| SUCEED2GETHER | $7,000 |
| MONTCLAIR FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCE | $6,000 |
| MINDFUL AWARENESS ACADEMY FOR CHILD | $6,000 |
| THE SIDE DOOR AT UNION CONGREGATION | $5,000 |
| IMANI INC | $5,000 |
| CONNECTIONS AT HOME | $2,000 |
| WE'VE GOT FRIENDS | $2,000 |
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, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +74% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +321%- SISUCCEED2GETHER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +5%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX COUNTY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- WGWonder Girls USA Incone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- SMST MARKS UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $14k
- ICIMMACULATE CONCEPTION HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Child advocacy
CIC's purpose is to empower communities by meeting social service needs directly and through service referals, primarily in Union and Essex Counties. CIC has three programs: Strengthening Families, Child Welfare, and Re-entry from Prisons.
The mission of NJ/PA Helping Hands is to empower individuals in the New Jersey and Philadelphia region by serving each person who comes to us with resources for community growth. Our goal is to promote change to fight poverty, isolation,…
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.
To walk alongside children youth and families in the foster care community by offering consistent support through intentional giving, relationship building and mentorship
Horizons newark is an academic enrichment program that seeks to address the achievement gap for public school students from low income families.
Central NJ Judaic Studies Initiative is a non-profit organization that was established to provide the infrastructure for an after-school religious program for children of elementary school age level. The goal is to encourage Jewish…
Guiding young women towards womanhood
The Open Door NJNY empowers marginalized populations to reach their full potential and successfully integrate, participate and contribute to their mainstream society with an end goal of strengthening their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is SUCCEED2GETHER Inc and the most unlike its peers is Butterfly Dreamz Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 30 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 JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SUCCEED2GETHER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Independence A Family of Services ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds Mindful Awareness Academy for Children ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN ↗
- Who funds THE MONTCLAIR FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Wonder Girls USA Inc ↗
- Who funds WEVE GOT FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds IMANI Inc ↗
- Who funds Butterfly Dreamz Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS AT HOME NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Council on Foundations 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: Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Schumann Fund for New Jersey Inc · Turrell Fund · Montclair Foundation Inc · Partners for Health Inc · JOHN J & ROSE CALI FAMILY FOUNDATION co CALI FUTURES · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc · Sonder Foundation · George a Ohl Jr Trust
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 Fund for Women 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
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
- Partners for Women and Justice Inc — 26% of income from government
- Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in — 9% 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.