· Private foundation
Robert Sydney Needham Fdn Main
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $271k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY | $63,000 |
| FDN AT NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOG | $50,000 |
| PASSAIC PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| PASSAIC ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & ENGINEERIN | $15,000 |
| RIDER UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| RARITAN VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT | $14,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $12,000 |
| PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| MIDDLESEX COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SAINT PETERS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| DREW UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION IN | $10,000 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
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
- NJNEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +151%
- ACATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +110%
- RUROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- NINJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2017 · $50k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OFone grant, 2024 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
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…
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Founded by the sisters of charity of new york, the university of mount saint vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, catholic and ecumenical liberal arts university. (cont. in sch.o)
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
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…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montclair State University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ocean County College Foundation. 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 55 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 56 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.
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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: Walter and Louise Sutcliffe 1990 Fd · E and S Van Houten Memorial Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Scott Carolyn J Char Tua-Main · The Provident Bank Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Ammon Foundation a Nj Nonprofit Corporat · Oceanfirst Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation
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 Robert Sydney Needham Fdn Main 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.
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Georgian Court University — 2% of income from government
- Caldwell University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 1% of income from government
- Rider University — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 0% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Drew University — 0% of income from government
- Ramapo College Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The College of New Jersey Foundation 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.
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