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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.

$190k
Granted FY2019
21
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$25k
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, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$520kHuman Services$128kYouth Development$111kCommunity Improvement$44kPhilanthropy$40kPublic Benefit$13k
02FY2019 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k14 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL$5,000
GREAT OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL$5,000
LEAD CHARTER SCHOOL$5,000
UNCOMMON SCHOOLS NORTH STAR ACADEMY$5,000
ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE NORTH WARD CENTER INC: $95k → 16%LIFE CAMP INC: $5k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Newark Charter School Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Newark Charter School Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$297k · 5 repeat orgs$543k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$297k
$408k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+190%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MP
    MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +37%
  • YN
    YouthBuild Newark Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +53%
  • LN
    Leadership Newark Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $44k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • PC
    PARENT COALITION FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • TN
    THE NORTH WARD CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $95k · revenue +27%
  • NEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +801%
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
Philips Academy Charter School of Paterson

We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship, environmental…

Education
2
The Learning Community Charter School

The Learning Community Charter School is a Public School that is overseen by the NJ Department Of Education. The School offers an alternative academic program to assist children to discover their talents and provides a community resource…

Education
3
Unity Charter School

The unity charter school (ucs) was chartered by the new jersey department of education in january 1997 as the only charter school that had included a planning year prior to its opening. the charter school opened its doors to the first 60…

Education
4
Compass Academy Charter School

The mission of compass academy charter school is to increase each child's success in learning, and as a result, academic achievement. using the "let me learn process" as its innovative approach, the school leadership and teachers will help…

Education
5
Jersey City Community Charter School

The mission of jersey city community charter school (jcccs) is to provide each student with innovative learning experiences that develop positive intellectual, social, and physical outcomes. jcccs is focused on promoting self-directed,…

Education
6
Ethical Community Charter School

The charter school is a new jersey public school overseen by the new jersey department of education. the charter school offers an academic program that encourages analytical thinking and creativity to help children.

Education
7
Thrive Charter School a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of Thrive Charter School is to empower students with knowledge, critical thinking skills, and a sense of civic responsibility, fostering their growth into confident, compassionate, and capable individuals prepared to thrive in…

Education
8
Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton Inc

The classical academy charter school of clifton's (the "charter school") mission is to blend core traditional learning foundations and modern day educational initiatives to create a progressive learning environment. through the fusion of a…

Education
9
Greater Brunswick Charter School

The mission of the charter school is to provide students with an education of the highest standards that incorporate their individual interests and learning styles, and nurtures their intelectual, social, emotional and physical well-being…

Education
10
Central Jersey College Prep Charter School

The mission of central jersey college preparatory charter school ("cjcp") is to provide academic and social challenges to students, while instilling in them the skills and knowledge that they will need to succeed in their future endeavors.…

Education
11
Cresthaven Academy Charter Schoolinc

Cresthaven academy charter school exists to provide a comprehensive education to our scholars that develops the whole child through academic excellence, physical wellness, emotional health and character enrichment.

Education
12
Jersey City Global Charter School

The jersey city global charter school (the "charter school") provides a full range of educational services for grades k to 7. these services include regular as well as special education and basic skills instruction.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marion P Thomas Charter School; 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.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
19/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationMARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOLNEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION: $65,000 · EducationNEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATI…The Center for Learner Equity: $50,000 · EducationThe Center for Learner EquityGREAT OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL: $42,500 · EducationGREAT OAKS CHARTER SCHOOLUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $32,500 · EducationUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC+7 more: $40,337 · Education+7 morePARENT COALITION FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION: $150,000 · OtherPARENT COALITION FOR EXCELLENT …Individual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEACH FOR AMERICA: $15,000 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICAANIBAL RAMOS JR CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $12,500 · OtherOFFICE OF COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY EDUCATION (CHILDREN'S CABINET): $12,500 · Other+7 more: $35,900 · Other+7 moreYouthBuild Newark Inc: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouthBuild Ne…THE NORTH WARD CENTER INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesTHE NORTH WAR…LIFE CAMP INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLeadership Newark Inc: $43,750 · Public BenefitUNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Education$330,337Other$240,900Youth Development$100,000Human Services$100,000Public Benefit$43,750Philanthropy$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYouthBuild Newark Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NORTH WARD CENTER INC: $95,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION: $65,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetThe Center for Learner Equity: $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLeadership Newark Inc: $43,750 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $32,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE CAMP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT TREAT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILIPS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWARK EDUCATORS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSEVILLE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

New Jersey Children's…Community Foundation …South Ward AllianceVictoria Foundation I…The Prudential Founda…The McJ Amelior Found…New Jersey Public Cha…Geraldine R Dodge Fou…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
New Jersey Children's FoundationNJ30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Newark Charter School Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Newark Charter School Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Newark Charter School Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Newark Charter School Fund Inc 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 30 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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