· Private foundation
Paterson Childrens' Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW DESTINY FAMILY SUCCESS | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| PATERSON ALLIANCE | $27,500 |
| PATERSON MUSIC PROJECT | $20,000 |
| SOLID FOUNDATION YOUTH OUTREACH | $20,000 |
| SALESIAN SISTERS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| NORTHERN NJ COUNCIL BSA | $15,000 |
| NORTHSIDE SUMMER MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| RIDGEWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| DAWN TREADER PRESCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +121% since the first grant, against +110% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE PATERSON ALLIANCE INC6× · 2021–2026 · $78k · revenue +56%- RSRIDGEWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA4× · 2022–2026 · $38k · revenue +122%
- SFSOLID FOUNDATION YOUTH OUTREACH INC2× · 2025–2026 · $30k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $40k
- NDNEW DESTINY FAMILY SUCCESS CENTERSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +110%
- DTDAWN TREADER SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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.
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
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…
Drug Rehab and Treatment Programs
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…
Community arts and education
To enrich the educational environment
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.
Provide student & parent activities & supplies designed to promote student enrichment as in assembly programs, field trips, & scholarship awards. We also assist with providing supplies & activities to students, parents, & teachers. This…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PATERSON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PATERSON ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEW JERSEY COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOLID FOUNDATION YOUTH OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CITY GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DESTINY FAMILY SUCCESS CENTERS ↗
- Who funds THE PATERSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paterson Childrens' Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paterson Childrens' Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Green Inc: 100% of income from government
- United Way of Passaic County Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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