· Private foundation
Ralph Errington Charitable Fdn Michael Backer Terry Zuckerman Ttes
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE | $100,000 |
| KENILWORTH ROTARY CAMP SCHOLARSHIP | $50,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NJ | $40,000 |
| TRINITAS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE BASS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TWP OF LIVINGSTON SENIOR SERVICES | $10,000 |
| PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 95% 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 +78% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $350k · revenue +78%- PMPaper Mill Playhouse5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +94%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC3× · 2020–2022 · $85k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- CRCristo Rey Newark High Schoolone grant, 2020 · $70k
- FVFROST VALLEY YMCAone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- ICIMMACULATE CONCEPTION HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See Schedule OThe mission of Temple Health Physicians, P.C. is to provide greater access to high-quality cancer and health care services to communities in New Jersey. Additionally, the organization operates to support the charitable…
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…
To improve the health and well-being of the populations we serve in urban and suburban communities.
Saint barnabas medical center, a non-sectarian healthcare institution, will pursue the delivery of primary, secondary, and tertiary health services while consistently meeting the highest quality of care and meeting our customers'…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.
We, trinity health of the mid-atlantic region and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy catholic medical center of southeastern…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 26 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BASS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITAS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FROST VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON FIRST AID SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE 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: Ej Grassmann Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Ralph Errington Charitable Fdn Michael Backer Terry Zuckerman Ttes funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph Errington Charitable Fdn Michael Backer Terry Zuckerman Ttes. Bigger dots raise more.
- Paper Mill Playhouse: 9% of income from government
- Center for Hope Hospice Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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