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Society of Colonial Wars in New Jersey at a glance

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Society of Colonial Wars in New Jersey

To perpetuate the memory of the colonial period

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$242kScience & Tech$12kPublic Benefit$12k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $45,124, the rows itemized in this filing. The $50,630 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,506 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$12,810
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PLAINFIELD$21,000
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES IN NEW JERSEY$12,810
BORDENTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY$11,314
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CCAHA - NJ ARCHIVES: $23k → 22%HUNTERDON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6k → 4%MORRISTOWN CHAPTER OF DAR: $12k → 4%SOMERSET COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC: $7k → 5%BORDENTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $11k → 7%GLOUCESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC: $17k → 8%THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PLAINFIELD: $21k → 10%MORVEN MUSEUM & GARDEN: $10k → 11%CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS: $12k → 22%SOMERSET CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 5%BORDENTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 7%Gloucester County Historical Society: $6k → 8%OLD BARRACKS: $15k → 11%SOMERSET CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 5%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES IN NEW JERSEY: $13k → 7%HUNTER RESEARCH INC: $12k → 11%Mount Holly Historical Society: $5k → 7%OLD BARRACKS: $11k → 11%OLD BARRACKS: $10k → 11%OLD BARRACKS: $10k → 11%OLD BARRACKS: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$160k · 6 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$160k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+64%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 NEW
    5× · 2018–2022 · $51k · revenue +81%
  • GLOUCESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET
    2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +76%
  • PB
    PRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • GS
    GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY
    one grant, 2018 · $27k · revenue -41% · 37% of their budget
  • HR
    HUNTER RESEARCH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • NS
    NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAR NJ MORRISTOW
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -35%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Historical Society of West Windsor

Preservation of historic items and public education of the history of West Windsor

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2
Jersey County Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Croatoan Archaeological Society

curation, display and storage of artifacts. preserving local history

Arts & Culture
4
Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society

To preserve the diverse history of cape may county for the education, enlightment and pleasure of present and future generations.

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5
The Historical Society Elizabeth Nj

Research and Preservation of the City of Elizabeths history; Restoration and Development of historic houses in Elizabeth, NJ

Arts & Culture
6
Pascack Historical Society

To acquire, preserve and disseminate knowledge about the rich history of the pascack valley.

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7
The New Jersey Historical Society

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…

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8
Bergen County Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Newark Valley Historical Society

Preservation of historical properties, artifacts, education, improvements program, and activities

Arts & Culture
10
Johnstown Historical Society
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11
Historical Society of Haddonfield

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Union Township Historical Society

To preserve and promote the history of the Township of Union County of Union State of New Jersey and the United States of America

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of Nj; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OLD BARRACKS ASSOCIATION OF TRENTON NEW: $51,404 · OtherOLD BARRACKS ASSOCIATION OF TRENTON NEWGENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $27,385 · OtherGENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEYBordentown Historical Society: $19,309 · OtherBordentown Historical SocietySOMERSET COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17,495 · OtherSOMERSET COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYPRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETY: $13,244 · OtherPRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETYHUNTER RESEARCH INC: $12,000 · OtherHUNTER RESEARCH INCNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAR NJ MORRISTOW: $11,806 · OtherNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAR NJ MORRISTOWMOUNT HOLLY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,283 · OtherCONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS: $35,064 · Arts & CultureCONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFAC…GLOUCESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET: $23,250 · Arts & CultureGLOUCESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETHistorical Society of Plainfield: $21,000 · Arts & CultureHistorical Society of PlainfieldTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES IN THE STATE OF NJ: $12,810 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES IN …HISTORIC MORVEN INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC MORVEN INCHunterdon County Historical Society: $5,970 · Arts & CultureHunterdon County Historical Society
Other$157,926Arts & Culture$108,094

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOLD BARRACKS ASSOCIATION OF TRENTON NEW: $51,404 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS: $35,064 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $27,385 over 1y, 37% of budgetGLOUCESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET: $23,250 over 2y, 13% of budgetHistorical Society of Plainfield: $21,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBordentown Historical Society: $19,309 over 2y, 10% of budgetPRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETY: $13,244 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES IN THE STATE OF NJ: $12,810 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAR NJ MORRISTOW: $11,806 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetHISTORIC MORVEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHunterdon County Historical Society: $5,970 over 1y, 8.2% of budget
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.

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.

Princeton Area Commun…The Robert Wood Johns…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Society of Colonial Wars in New Jersey funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Society of Colonial Wars in New Jersey. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 90%
  • Old Barracks Association of Trenton New: 90% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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