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· Public charity

New Jersey Working Families Alliance Corp

To increase civic participation

$148k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$255kPublic Benefit$53kCivil Rights$45kHuman Services$35kCommunity Improvement$10kEnvironment$10k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $107,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $148,300 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $41,300 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.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$600k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE THE ROAD$20,000
AAPI$13,500
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT GROUP OF NJ$13,500
THE GEM PROJECT INC$10,000
NJ BLACK EMPOWERMENT COALITION$10,000
SALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE$10,000
NJ LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS$10,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS - ED FUND$10,000
NAACP HUNTERDON COUNTY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MAKE THE ROAD: $40k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD: $20k → 20%LATINO ACTION NETWORK: $25k → 6%NJ INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $10k → 16%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$118k · 3 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$118k
$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MT
    Make The Road States Inc
    2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +44%
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $33k · revenue -33%
  • SA
    SALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N
    2× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • CP
    CAMDEN PARENT & STUDENT UNION
    one grant, 2022 · $80k
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY ORGANIZING PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue -33% · 53% of their budget
  • Latino Action Network Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +140%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
New Jersey Alliance for Culture Change
Health
2
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance

New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, Inc. Is an alliance of New Jersey Organizations and Individuals committed to creating healthy, sustainable and just communities by eliminating environmental injustices in low income and…

Environment
3
New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc

Promotes empowerment of low and middle income people through research, education, and training around public policy issues and direct counseling services.

Public Benefit
4
New Jersey Resource Project Inc

The purpose of the new jersey resource project is to educate and connect community leaders to work together for solutions and take action toward an economically just and resilient future.

Education
5
New Jersey Advocates for Aging Well Inc

Provide leadership in public policy and education to enable New Jersey older adults to live with independence and dignity in their communities.

Civil Rights
6
League of Women Voters of New Jersey Education Fund

Lwvnj-ef's nonpartisan voter education and voter protection work ensures everyone has the tools, resources, and confidence they need to participate fully at the ballot box and beyond.

Civil Rights
7
Leadership New Jersey Inc

To serve as forum for the exchange of ideas for the development of public and private partnerships and projects that address economic, social, and community problems in NJ; To analyze state issues, communicate its positions to the public…

Community Improvement
8
New Jersey Civil Justice Reform Institute Inc

The new jersey civil justice institute (the "institute") is the state's leading organization advocating for the business community on matters of law and legal policy. the institute promotes a fair and predictable civil justice system, and…

Community Improvement
9
Fund for New Jersey
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10
Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in

Volunteer Lawyers for Justice, Inc. ("VLJ"/ the Organization), a non-profit organization incorporated in the State of New Jersey, is a comprehensive, statewide legal services program based in Newark. VLJ's mission is to ensure access to…

Crime & Legal
11
Chemistry Council of New Jersey

To advance member interests, operational and environmental excellence, science,education, and community outreach in New Jersey.

—
12
New Jersey Participation Project Inc

The organization advocates for public policy that will enhance the lives of New Jersey residents.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Citizen Action; the most unlike its peers is Ritesh Shah Foundation for Charitable Community Pharmacy. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMDEN PARENT & STUDENT UNION: $80,360 · OtherCAMDEN PARENT & STUDENT UNIONNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION: $33,000 · OtherNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTIONWATU MOJA: $15,000 · OtherWATU MOJACOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT GROUP OF NJ: $13,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT GROUP OF NJLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF NEW JERSEY: $10,000 · OtherFEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES DBA NJ LEAGUE OF CONS VOTERS: $10,000 · OtherNAACP HUNTERDON COUNTY: $10,000 · OtherTHE GEM PROJECT INC: $10,000 · OtherNEO Philanthropy Inc: $7,000 · OtherMake The Road States Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesMake The Road States IncLatino Action Network Foundation: $25,000 · Human ServicesLatino Action Network Foun…THE NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE F…NEW JERSEY ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $45,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNEW JERSEY O…SALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N: $25,000 · Civil RightsSALVATION…NEW JERSEY BLACK EMPOWERMENT COALITION INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsNEW JERSE…AAPI MONTCLAIR INC: $13,500 · Arts & CultureNew Jersey Policy Perspective: $10,000 · Arts & CultureRITESH SHAH FOUNDATION FOR CHARITABLE COMMUNITY PHARMACY: $10,600 · HealthBLUEWAVENJ A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$188,860Human Services$95,000Public Safety & Disaster$45,000Civil Rights$35,000Arts & Culture$23,500Health$10,600Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMake The Road States Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW JERSEY ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION: $33,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLatino Action Network Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAAPI MONTCLAIR INC: $13,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRITESH SHAH FOUNDATION FOR CHARITABLE COMMUNITY PHARMACY: $10,600 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF NEW JERSEY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY BLACK EMPOWERMENT COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBLUEWAVENJ A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE GEM PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES DBA NJ LEAGUE OF CONS VOTERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew Jersey Policy Perspective: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $7,000 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Geraldine R Dodge Fou…The Robert Wood Johns…Fund for New JerseyUnited States Energy …Fidelity Investments …
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Fund for New Jersey · United States Energy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 New Jersey Working Families Alliance Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Jersey Working Families Alliance Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N: 52% of income from government
  • New Jersey Citizen Action: 37% of income from government
  • The Gem Project Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Aapi Montclair Inc: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 New Jersey Working Families Alliance Corp 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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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