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Somerset Regal Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Somerset Regal Charitable 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.

$425k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL JERSEY HOUSING RESOURCE CENTER$50,000
RARITAN VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$50,000
CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS$50,000
FRANKLIN FOOD BANK$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND FOR INTER-CITY CHILDREN$10,000
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY$10,000
NOURISH NJ$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY$10,000
MIDDLE EARTH$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE VETERAN HOUSING$10,000
FEEDING HANDS$10,000
AMERICA'S GROW A ROW$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOMERSET COUNTY$10,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $50k → 16%MIDDLE EARTH: $10k → 5%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $10k → 5%SAFE & SOUND SOMERSET: $10k → 5%AMERICA'S GROW A ROW: $10k → 5%FEEDING HANDS: $10k → 5%CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS: $50k → 5%CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS: $50k → 5%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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$300k · 3 repeat orgs$265k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
22

Total granted

$300k
$265k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

100%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • CJ
    CENTRAL JERSEY HOUSING RESOURCE CENTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • RV
    RARITAN VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue -29%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue +137%
  • FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2025 · $20k
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
The Food Bank Network of Somerset County Inc

The organizaton operates daily and weekly food pantries in bridgewater, bound brook, somerville, manville, north plainfield and the va in lyons(all in somerest county, new jersey). the organization meets emergency food needs on a daily…

Food & Nutrition
2
Habitat for Humanity of South Central New Jersey Inc

Habitat for Habitat of South Central Jersey, Inc. (HHSCNJ) partners with families in need and volunteers to transform lives through decent and affordable housing.

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3
Jewish Family Service of Somerset Hunterdon & Warren Counties Inc

JFS is a non-profit, non-sectarian social service agency whose mission is to preserve and strengthen the quality of individual, family and community life based on Jewish values.

Human Services
4
Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj

The purpose of jewish family service of central new jersey is to foster the development of healthy family life. jfs is a multi-purpose non-sectarian agency providing social services to individuals, families, and the elderly. these services…

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5
Foodshed Alliance a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

Foodshed Alliance works to strengthen sustainable farming, increase access to local, healthy food, and protect the environment for all members of our communities

Food & Nutrition
6
Family and Community Services of Somerset County

To enhance the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities by providing professional mental health and addictions services and innovative community based

Human Services
7
Central Jersey Community Development Corporation

The mission of the central jersey community development corporation is to rebuild communities, one family at a time by improving the social, educational, and economic conditions in targeted areas throughout the state of new jersey

Religion
8
Somerset Treatment Services Inc

Provide quality treatment and prevention services to all persons suffering from the consequences of substance abuse or HIV illnesses.

Health
9
Center for Food Action in New Jersey

The mission of the center for food action is to "prevent hunger and homelessness and improve the lives of individuals and families living in poverty."

Human Services
10
Flemington Area Food Pantry Inc

Our mission is to promote the health and well-being of our Hunterdon County community. We offer choices of nutritious foods and essentials, foster resource connections, provide tailored programming, and respect the dignity of our neighbors…

Human Services
11
Family Promise of Sussex County Inc

To secure housing stability and sustainability for those in crisis, because everyone deserves a home.

Human Services
12
Fso of Cumberland Gloucester & Salem

To provide a comprehensive and responsive service system for families of children with special mental, emotional, and behavioral needs throughout the counties of Cumberland, Salem & Gloucester Counties, as well as to increase awareness of…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homesharing Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Friendship Circle Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
7/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RARITAN VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $100,000 · OtherRARITAN VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCFRANKLIN TOWNSHIP FOOD BANK: $25,000 · OtherFRANKLIN TOWNSHIP FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSCHOLARSHIP FUND FOR INNER-CITY CHILDREN: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS: $10,000 · OtherSOMERSET HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherGREATER MIDDLESEX AND MORRIS HABITAT: $10,000 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN YMCA OF THE ORANGES (WEST ESSEX YMCA): $10,000 · OtherPATRIOTS' PATH COUNCIL SCOUTING AMERICA: $7,500 · Other+2 more: $10,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS INCTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INCMiddle Earth: $10,000 · Human ServicesLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $10,000 · Human ServicesSAFE & SOUND SOMERSET INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmericas Grow-A-Row: $10,000 · Human ServicesFeeding Hands Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL JERSEY HOUSING RESOURCE CENTER: $100,076 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL JERSEY HOUSING…FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE VETERAN HOUSING A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION FOR SUSTAIN…HOMESHARING INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterNOURISHNJ INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY: $10,000 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND WARREN COUNTIES INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · Environment
Other$222,500Human Services$200,000Housing & Shelter$115,076Food & Nutrition$10,000International$10,000Philanthropy$10,000Environment$7,500

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 budgetCENTRAL JERSEY HOUSING RESOURCE CENTER: $100,076 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetRARITAN VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRANKLIN TOWNSHIP FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNOURISHNJ INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE VETERAN HOUSING A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAmericas Grow-A-Row: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding Hands Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMPOWER SOMERSET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMESHARING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Somerset Regal Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Somerset Regal Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Raritan Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Somerset Regal Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Somerset Regal Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 26 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-PF 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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