· Private foundation
Plainfield Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 57 grants below total $444,953 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $559,333 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $114,380 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
- Under $10k43 grants · $208k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $237k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $45,000 |
| UNITED FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SOCIETY | $25,473 |
| WAGNER FARM ARBORETUM FOUNDATION | $18,587 |
| UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE | $18,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF UNION NC | $17,500 |
| EL CENTRO HISPANOAMERICANO | $15,000 |
| KORNDVA ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| YWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PLAINFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY INC | $15,000 |
| PLAINFIELD SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC | $12,542 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF NEW JERSEY | $10,000 |
| STUDENTS 2 SCIENCE | $10,000 |
| STAR FISH INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE | $10,000 |
| UNITED FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SOCIETY | $9,527 |
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 (FY18–20, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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
- UFUNITED FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SOCIETY5× · 2018–2024 · $182k · revenue +28%
- PSPlainfield Symphony Society Inc4× · 2018–2024 · $156k · revenue +22% · 45% of their budget
- SSSECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC5× · 2018–2024 · $117k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- WFWCDB Foundation Inc Attn Ken Slutsky Tax Exempt Inst Grpgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $202k · revenue ×50
- RUROWAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $30k
- SISTAR-FISH INCone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Rider university is a comprehensive, private university offering undergraduate and graduate programs in business, education, liberal arts, sciences, music, and fine and performing arts.see schedule o for rider university's mission, vision,…
We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
To meet the healthcare needs of our community by providing cost-effective quality care. to educate present and future generations of healthcare providers. to provide a continuum of regional tertiary care. please refer to the organization's…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…
The spirit that infuses newark beth israel medical center and children's hospital of new jersey is its commitment to excellence. our mission is to achieve this excellence through: - the delivery of primary health care to all who need our…
Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wcdb Foundation Inc Attn Ken Slutsky Tax Exempt Inst Grp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
52 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. 52 of the 145 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 WCDB Foundation Inc Attn Ken Slutsky Tax Exempt Inst Grp ↗
- Who funds UNITED FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Plainfield Symphony Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Union County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WARDLAW-HARTRIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANOAMERICANO ↗
- Who funds Home First - Interfaith Housing and Family Services ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY ↗
- Who funds WAGNER FARM ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Americas Grow-A-Row ↗
- Who funds JCC of Central New Jersey ↗
- Who funds STAR FISH INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Columbia Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Westfield Foundation · Union Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Union County % Julienne Cherry
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 Plainfield 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.
- Delaware State University — 18% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Ywca of Eastern Union County Inc — 8% of income from government
- Neighborhood House Association — 6% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Georgian Court University — 1% of income from government
- Students 2 Science Inc — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% 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.