· Private foundation
Newark Charter School Fund Inc
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k14 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK | $25,000 |
| LEADERSHIP NEWARK INC | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $15,000 |
| ANIBAL RAMOS JR CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
| OFFICE OF COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY EDUCATION (CHILDREN'S CABINET) | $12,500 |
| KIPP NEW JERSEY | $5,000 |
| MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ROBERT TREAT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NEWARK EDUCATORS' COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Newark Charter School Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
- YNYouthBuild Newark Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +53%
- MPMARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +37%
- LNLeadership Newark Inc2× · 2017–2019 · $44k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- PCPARENT COALITION FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $150k
- TNTHE NORTH WARD CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $95k · revenue +27%
NEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +801%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marion P Thomas Charter School and the most unlike its peers is Anibal Ramos Jr Civic Association. 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 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 YouthBuild Newark Inc ↗
- Who funds MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH WARD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Center for Learner Equity ↗
- Who funds Leadership Newark Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds ANIBAL RAMOS JR CIVIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEAD CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROSEVILLE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROBERT TREAT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PHILIPS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEWARK EDUCATORS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
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: New Jersey Children's Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · South Ward Alliance · Victoria Foundation Inc · The Prudential Foundation · The McJ Amelior Foundation · New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Newark Charter School Fund 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.
- New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Lead Charter School Inc — 30% of income from government
- YouthBuild Newark Inc — 27% of income from government
- Link Community Charter School — 11% of income from government
- Discovery Charter School — 11% of income from government
- Great Oaks Charter School — 9% of income from government
- The North Ward Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Life Camp Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/a United Way of Greater Newark — 2% 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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