· Public charity
Ocean Inc
Administration of federal head start program, weatherization programs, rental assistance programs and other assistance to low income families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $1,223,696 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,296,573 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $72,877 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $797k
- $250k+1 grant · $341k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE EGG HARBOR BOARD OF EDUCATION | $340,565 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CORPORATION | $228,791 |
| NO LIMITS ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| CONCERNED CITIZENS OF WHITESBORO | $141,000 |
| CAPE ASSIST | $135,481 |
| ATLANTIC CITY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $81,235 |
| EZ RIDE | $60,000 |
| IDEAL EDUCATION | $39,124 |
| MONMOUTH OCEAN POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $20,000 |
| SOLUTIONS TO END POVERTY SOON | $15,000 |
| FRIDAY IS TIE DAY INC | $12,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $399k 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
- CACAPE ASSIST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $790k · revenue +144%
- PAPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF ATLANTIC CITY8× · 2017–2024 · $731k · revenue +119% · 50% of their budget
- CCCONCERNED CITIZENS OF WHITESBORO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $638k · revenue +145% · 62% of their budget
Funded once
- DIDAYS INNone grant, 2021 · $62k
- TITRAVEL INNone grant, 2021 · $62k
- DDDRY DOCK MOTELone grant, 2021 · $62k
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.
To educate and train troubled youth to become productive citizens
Childcare
To serve the Hispanic residents and low income communities of southern NJ by planning, implementing, and operating programs designed to improve their social, economic, and educational status.
Child care program for children of various financial backgrounds.
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…
The organization was established as youth crime prevention program that utilizes educational, athletic and recreational activities to create trust and undestanding between police officer and youth.
To provide quality child care, after school care and summer camp to low income and working class families
Training & technical assistance
The organization operates programs that respond to the needs and problems of low to moderate income residents of camden county, nj.
Promotes empowerment of low and middle income people through research, education, and training around public policy issues and direct counseling services.
To provide free emergency legal help to low-income residents of essex county, nj facing civil law crises (the vast majority of which are eviction hearings in landlord-tenant court)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tri-County Community Action Agency Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mud Girls Studios a Nj non profit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 61 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 LAKEWOOD ECONOMIC ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ASSIST INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF ATLANTIC CITY ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS OF WHITESBORO INC ↗
- Who funds MEADOWLANDS TRANSPORTATION BROKERAGE CORP ↗
- Who funds United Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS TO END POVERTY SOON INC ↗
- Who funds IDEAL EDUCATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORP ↗
- Who funds NO LIMITS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
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: Oceanfirst Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc · 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 Ocean 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.
- Cape Assist Inc — 80% of income from government
- United Community Corporation — 45% of income from government
- Tri-County Community Action Agency Inc — 23% 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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