· Public charity
Society of Colonial Wars in New Jersey
To perpetuate the memory of the colonial period
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.
The 3 grants below total $45,124 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $50,630 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,506 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PLAINFIELD | $21,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES IN NEW JERSEY | $12,810 |
| BORDENTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $11,314 |
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 57% 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.
6 repeat relationships — 1 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
OLD BARRACKS ASSOCIATION OF TRENTON NEW5× · 2018–2022 · $51k · revenue +81%
GLOUCESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +76%- PBPRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- GSGENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEYone grant, 2018 · $27k · revenue -41% · 37% of their budget
- HRHUNTER RESEARCH INCone grant, 2020 · $12k
- NSNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAR NJ MORRISTOWone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -35%
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.
Preservation of historic items and public education of the history of West Windsor
To collect and preserve data and historical items relating to the history of jersey county. to encourage historical and genealogical research. to publish material of historical nature.
curation, display and storage of artifacts. preserving local history
To preserve the diverse history of cape may county for the education, enlightment and pleasure of present and future generations.
Research and Preservation of the City of Elizabeths history; Restoration and Development of historic houses in Elizabeth, NJ
To acquire, preserve and disseminate knowledge about the rich history of the pascack valley.
The new jersey historical society collects, preserves, teaches, and interprets new jersey history through our archives, research library, and educational programs. we do so in the belief that an understanding and appreciation of historical…
To collect and preserve data and objects having historical significance and paper and documents incidental to the civil political, military and general history of the u.s. particularly bergen county and adjoining areas.
Preservation of historical properties, artifacts, education, improvements program, and activities
The Society was formed to study the history of Haddonfield, NJ and to collect and preserve articles of historic value, to establish and maintain a historical library, and to publish historical information.
To preserve and promote the history of the Township of Union County of Union State of New Jersey and the United States of America
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of Nj and the most unlike its peers is National Society of the Dar Nj Morristow. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 14 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 OLD BARRACKS ASSOCIATION OF TRENTON NEW ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS ↗
- Who funds GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET ↗
- Who funds Historical Society of Plainfield ↗
- Who funds Bordentown Historical Society ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES IN THE STATE OF NJ ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAR NJ MORRISTOW ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MORVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Hunterdon County Historical Society ↗
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 · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · 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 Society of Colonial Wars in New Jersey 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.
- Old Barracks Association of Trenton New — 90% 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.