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Rotary Club of Trenton Nj Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MT CARMEL GUILD | $9,300 |
| SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE | $8,700 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERCER COUNTY | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +68%
Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey3× · 2017–2022 · $16k · revenue +129%
HOMEFRONT INC2× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- RDROTARY DISTRICT 7475 FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $7k
- AARTWORKSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- RCROTARY CLUB OF MONTGOMERYROCKY HILL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +6%
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 Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County enhances the lives of Greater Mercer County youth and their families by providing affordable educational and recreational services.
To provide significant financial support to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County through growth and stewardship of our endowment to improve the lives of current and future Mercer County youth.
Founded in 1982, the mission of Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) is to feed those who are hungry in the Trenton area and provide programs and services to help enhance self-sufficiency and improve quality of life.In addition to preparing…
As a multi-faceted human services agency, mercer street friends (msf) dedicated to "nourishing minds and bodies; empowering families and communities," works to reduce hunger and food insecurity, close education gaps, improve the physical…
The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mercer County is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. We pursue our mission by matching under-resourced and undeserved youth in…
Nurturing wellness and self-sufficiency in vulnerable youth, your adults and their families
Our mission is to create a pathway to success through sports, education and community.our vision is to provide a place where childre
Community Services and mentorship
The Chester Mendham Food Pantry provides local families in need with supplemental food and supplies. We have helped over 75 families.
The middlesex county regional chamber of commerce has served as the areas premier source of business networking, education and government advocacy for more than 100 years. we partner with member organizations who have over 50,000 employees…
United Way of Mercer County champions the needs of children and families in our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Carmel Guild of Trenton Nj and the most unlike its peers is Rotary Club of Montgomeryrocky Hill Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 12 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 MOUNT CARMEL GUILD OF TRENTON NJ ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc ↗
- Who funds Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey ↗
- Who funds THE TRENTON LITERACY MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds SMALL BUSINESS MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF MONTGOMERYROCKY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CROSSING COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Rotary Club of Trenton Nj Charitable 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.
- Mount Carmel Guild of Trenton Nj — 100% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey — 8% 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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