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Morristown Unitarian Fellowship

Morristown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is a liberal religious organization that adheres to the 7 Principles of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

$16k
Granted FY2021
11
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Religion$17kFood & Nutrition$3kHousing & Shelter$3kCivil Rights$3kCommunity Improvement$973Human Services$932Environment$690
02FY2021 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $11,766, the rows itemized in this filing. The $16,085 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,319 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$973
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Interfaith Food Pantry$1,675
nourish NJ$1,665
Wind of the Spirit$1,555
Black Lives Matter UU$1,129
Homeless Solutions$1,127
NORWESCAP$973
Family Promise$972
Cornerstone Family Programs$932
Individual grant recipient$923
NJ Environmental Justice Alliance$690
Individual grant recipient$125
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 4%NORWESCAP: $973 → 6%Cornerstone Family Programs: $932 → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Foodshed Alliance a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

Foodshed Alliance works to strengthen sustainable farming, increase access to local, healthy food, and protect the environment for all members of our communities

Food & Nutrition
2
Family Promise of Southwest Nj

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…

Human Services
3
Jersey Strong Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Morristown Partners Inc T/a Morristown Partnership

Foster and encourage self-help programs to enhance the local business climate, provide administrative and other services to benefit business, employees, residents and consumers and promote and preserve the cultural, historic, touristic and…

Community Improvement
5
Center for Food Action in New Jersey

The mission of the center for food action is to "prevent hunger and homelessness and improve the lives of individuals and families living in poverty."

Human Services
6
Nj 2-1-1 Partnership a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation

The organization's mission is to make the critical connection between individuals and families seeking health and/or human services and the organizations best able to meet their needs.

Human Services
7
Family Promise of Cape May County

To provide shelter, meals and case management for homeless families, as well as aiding the families in finding a home , family services and training.

Human Services
8
Human Needs Food Pantry Inc

To provide food, clothing, household goods and other services to people in need who live in montclair, nj and other neighboring communities in essex county

Human Services
9
New Jersey Alliance for Culture Change
Health
10
Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj

The purpose of jewish family service of central new jersey is to foster the development of healthy family life. jfs is a multi-purpose non-sectarian agency providing social services to individuals, families, and the elderly. these services…

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11
Family Promise of Morris County Inc

To mobilize community resources and people to end the crisis of homelessness faced by Morris County families and indviduals by providing a continuum of services leading to self-sufficiency.

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12
Family Promise of Sussex County Inc

To secure housing stability and sustainability for those in crisis, because everyone deserves a home.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORRISTOWN UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP: $16,970 · ReligionMORRISTOWN UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIPWind of the Spirit: $1,555 · OtherWind of the SpiritBlack Lives Matter UU: $1,129 · OtherBlack Lives Matter …HOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $1,127 · OtherHOMELESS SOLUTIONS …Individual grant recipient: $923 · OtherIndividual grant re…+1 more: $125 · OtherINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,675 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH FO…NOURISHNJ INC: $1,665 · Food & NutritionNOURISHNJ INCNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $973 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $932 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE INC: $972 · Housing & ShelterNew Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance: $690 · Environment
Religion$16,970Other$4,859Food & Nutrition$3,340Human Services$1,905Housing & Shelter$972Environment$690

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMORRISTOWN UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP: $16,970 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISHNJ INC: $1,665 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $1,127 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $973 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $972 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $932 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Morristown Unitarian Fellowship funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morristown Unitarian Fellowship. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance: 39% of income from government
  • Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Nourishnj Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Homeless Solutions Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Family Programs: 3% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Morristown Unitarian Fellowship through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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