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Paterson Childrens' Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW DESTINY FAMILY SUCCESS | $22,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PATERSON ALLIANCE | $19,625 |
| PATERSON MUSIC PROJECT | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SALESIAN SISTERS | $10,000 |
| SOLID FOUNDATION YOUTH OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| RIDGEWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $9,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
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 (FY21–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
THE PATERSON ALLIANCE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +56%- RSRIDGEWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA3× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +122%
- CGCITY GREEN INC2× · 2018–2021 · $20k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $40k
- NDNEW DESTINY FAMILY SUCCESS CENTERSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +110%
- TPTHE PATERSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +130%
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.
Provide compassionate quality services to assist vulnerable individuals and families to improve their quality of life and to become self sufficient by addressing the impacts of poverty.
Child advocacy
To promote the welfare of students and foster relationships between parents, teachers and students
Provide charitable programs for benefit of school aged children
To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.
To enrich the educational environment
Entertainment
Support activities of local school students and their faculty provide programs to enrich curriculum and school activities through various fundraising efforts
Friends of Paterson Parks is a non-profit organization based in Paterson New Jersey. Its mission is to protect enhance and advocate for the citys park system by pursuing grant opportunities soliciting corporate donations conducting annual…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Passaic County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 22 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 PATERSON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PATERSON ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEW JERSEY COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds NEW DESTINY FAMILY SUCCESS CENTERS ↗
- Who funds CITY GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE PATERSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLID FOUNDATION YOUTH OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY 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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Columbia Bank Foundation · Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation · Turrell Fund · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Pfizer 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 Paterson Childrens' 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.
- City Green Inc — 100% of income from government
- United Way of Passaic County Inc — 7% 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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