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South Jersey Charitable Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $550k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHEDRAL KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| USO OF PA AND SOUTH JERSEY | $40,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $40,000 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF KNIGHT PARK | $40,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY | $35,000 |
| BATTLESHIP NEW JERSEY | $30,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY CAMDEN CHAPTERCORPS | $30,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP DAMIANO SCHOOL | $27,500 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CARPENTER SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NJ | $25,000 |
| URBAN PROMISE | $25,000 |
| MUSIC AT BUNKER HILL | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BURLINGTON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC | $22,500 |
| JOSEPH'S HOUSE OF CAMDEN | $22,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $347k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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; $65k 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
Animal Welfare Association Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +40%- TCTHE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC5× · 2020–2025 · $235k · revenue +86%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY5× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- UUUNICEF USA (UKRAINE RELIEF)one grant, 2022 · $100k
- SJSt John of God Community Servicesone grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +25%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +28%
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.
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
The home was a retirement facility dedicated to the spiritual and physical needs of its residents and patients.
The organization's mission is to provide households experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, an opportunity to achieve stability by providing comprehensive shelter diversion/homeless prevention, or transitional housing…
Diocesan housing services was established with the purpose of providing affordable housing and housing related services for seniors and/or families earning very low, low, and moderate incomes throughout the new jersey counties of atlantic,…
To holistically and individually engage people experiencing homelessness in gaining stability and control of their lives.
Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.
Rescue Mission of Trenton, New Jersey serves the truly needy men and women who have no place to turn for shelter, food, and clothing. The Organization provides a safe, clean, and warm refuge for the homeless, the hungry, the transient, and…
Dignity Housing's mission is to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty that confronts low-income families and individuals in the City of Philadelphia.
The organization's mission is to increase local services and resources for the homeless. miph provides affordable permanent housing in central new jersey, giving families a stable place to live while they prepare for their lives free from…
Alleviate and prevent homelessness through the provision of shelter, services, support, hospitality and guidance to homeless individuals, youth and families. the organization's mission is to provide non-judgmental services to end…
The mission of the project home community is to empower adults, children, and families to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty, to alleviate the underlying causes of poverty, and to enable all of us to attain our fullest potential…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House of Southern New Jersey and the most unlike its peers is Asylum Pride House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 51 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 Animal Welfare Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOME PORT ALLIANCE FOR THE USS NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY IN C ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE OF CAMDEN LLC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPHS CARPENTER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BURLINGTON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AQUATIC SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds St John of God Community Services ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMCARE HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Operation Yellow Ribbon of South Jersey ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Homeless Outreach Council ↗
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: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Michael and Maryann Camardo Foundation · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc
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 South Jersey 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.
- Project Hope Inc — 51% of income from government
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
- Joseph's House of Camden Llc — 32% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Camcare Health Corporation — 25% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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