· Private foundation
Ruth Warshaw Memorial Foundation Inc
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 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 $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE VALERIE FUND | $10,000 |
| VALLEY CHABAD | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY | $6,000 |
| JEWISH HOME FAMILY ASSOCIATION OF NJ INC | $6,000 |
| E MOTION | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE OPPORTUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
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, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +76% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- JHJEWISH HOME FAMILY ASSOCIATION OF NJ INC9× · 2017–2025 · $112k
- VCVALLEY CHABAD INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k
- TVTHE VALERIE FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CWCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +192%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
Jewish family services of greenwich (jfs) is a nonprofit social service agency dedicated to strengthening individuals and families in fairfield and new london counties. jfs provides behavioral health counseling, food security programs,…
The friedberg jewish community center promotes jewish life and values by providing programs and services in a warm and caring environment for all people in every stage of life. we build a community one member at a time.
Jewish family service and children's center of clifton-passaic is a social services and mental health agency that seeks to enhance the lives of indiviuals and families. the organization offers psychotherapy, psychiatry, geriatric, crisis…
Planned lifetime assistance of new jersey (plan|nj), a nonprofit organization, helps the families of people with disabilities answer the question, "who will care for my loved one when i'm gone?" a person with intellectual, developmental or…
Connectiong loved ones battling the same condition for mutual support
Advancement of the Jewish Community
To further the purposes of jewish family & children's services of northern new jersey, inc.
Jewish family service of metrowest, new jersey provides innovative, compassionate, and outstanding social services to enhance the independence and well-being of individuals and families throughout all stages of life within the metrowest,…
Epilepsy services of new jersey (esnj) is a state-wide, non-profit charitable agency dedicated to helping to improve the quality of life for people affected by epilepsy and their loved ones. esnj will ensure that people with seizures find…
Jcc metrowest's vision is to be the premier jewish social, recreational, cultural, and educational center that serves the entire metrowest community and inspires every individual to explore the boundless potential of judaism. (continued on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Jillian Fund. 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 18 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 THE VALERIE FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds E-MOTION INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JILLIAN FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY FEDERATION OF YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND YOUNG WOMEN'S ↗
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.
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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 Ruth Warshaw Memorial Foundation Inc 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 Arc of Bergen and Passaic Counties 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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