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Northern New Jersey Community Foundation

NORTHERN NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (nnjcf) improves community life through work in arts, civic engagement, education, environment, philanthropy and public health.

$367k
Granted FY2021
10
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$8k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

70% of Northern New Jersey Community Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Give2asia, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Northern New Jersey Community Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $68k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212023.

International$37kHousing & Shelter$34kHuman Services$26kHealth$24kEnvironment$10kCrime & Legal$6k
02FY2021 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $67,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $367,400 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $299,900 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$414k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTCLAIR EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR HOMELESS$7,500
FRANCISCAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF FAIRVIEW$7,000
MAIN STREET COUNSELING SERVICE$7,000
ADVANCED HOUSING INC$7,000
CIRCLE OF CARE FAMILIES & CHILDREN PASSAIC$7,000
COMMUNITY OF FAITH THE HOBOKEN SHELTER$7,000
TRINITAS HEALTH FOUNDATION$7,000
ALL SAINTS COMMUNITY SERVICE AND DEVELOPMENT CORP$6,000
HUDSON COUNTY CASA$6,000
GREATER NEWARK CARES$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MAIN STREET COUNSELING SERVICE: $7k → 16%FRANCISCAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF FAIRVIEW: $7k → 16%CIRCLE OF CARE FAMILIES & CHILDREN PASSAIC: $7k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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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Gotham Health Fqhc Inc

Gotham health fqhc, inc., operating together with new york city health and hospitals corporation under a public entity model federally qualified health center, provides you and your family with access to primary and preventative healthcare…

Health
2
Chs Services Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

3
African Services Committee Inc

African services committee's mission is to support the african community through provision of health, housing, social and legal services and advocacy to african diaspora refugees and immigrants in new york city and to provide reproductive…

Arts & Culture
4
The Asian Americans for Community Involvement of Santa Clara County Inc

To strengthen the resilience and hope of our diverse community members by improving their health and well-being.

Health
5
Nursing Sisters Home Care Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
6
Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services Inc

We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…

7
Mercy Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
8
Advance Care Alliance of Ny Inc

Advance care alliance of new york, inc. (acany) is dedicated to providing the support and services for you or your loved one with an intellectual or developmental disability need to lead an active, healthy, and fulfilling life. acany was…

Human Services
9
Newark Community Health Centers Inc

The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…

Health
10
St Joseph's Medical Pc

We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.

Health
11
Capital Health-East Trenton Inc (Fka St Francis Medical Center Trenton Nj)

To improve the health and well-being of the populations we serve in urban and suburban communities.

Health
12
Archcare Community Services Inc

The organization's mission is to provide a community resource for information regarding available social and health care services; to provide community and pastoral services, as well as transitional and supportive housing, for the frail…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Armenian International Medical Fund Aim Fund. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION — $12,000 · OtherLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORA…COMMUNITIES OF FAITH FOR HOUSING INC — $7,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES OF FAITH FOR …GREATER NEWARK CARES — $6,000 · OtherGREATER NEWARK CARESALL SAINTS COMMUNITY SERVICE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $6,000 · OtherALL SAINTS COMMUNITY SERV…ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL FUND AIM FUND — $13,500 · HealthARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL ME…Cancer Care Inc — $10,000 · HealthCancer Care IncTRINITAS FOUNDATION — $7,000 · HealthTRINITAS FOUNDATIONGIVE2ASIA — $23,803 · InternationalGIVE2ASIACIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLE OF CARE FO…MAIN STREET COUNSELING CENTER — $7,000 · Human ServicesMAIN STREET COUNS…FRANCISCAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF FAIRVIEW — $7,000 · Human ServicesFRANCISCAN COMMUN…MONTCLAIR EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR HOPE INC — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterMONTCLAIR EM…ADVANCE HOUSING INC — $7,000 · Housing & ShelterADVANCE HOUS…RESILIENT CITIES CATALYST INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentHUDSON COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC — $6,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$31,000Health$30,500International$23,803Human Services$21,000Housing & Shelter$14,500Environment$10,000Crime & Legal$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGIVE2ASIA — $23,803 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL FUND AIM FUND — $13,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Care Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESILIENT CITIES CATALYST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTCLAIR EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR HOPE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetADVANCE HOUSING INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAIN STREET COUNSELING CENTER — $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRINITAS FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALL SAINTS COMMUNITY SERVICE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Northern New Jersey Community Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 62%
  • Advance Housing Inc62% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Northern New Jersey Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Northern New Jersey Community Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $32k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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