· Public charity
South Ward Alliance
Swpn mission: to provide a coordinated pipeline of services and resources that guides and supports families and ensures their children can live in healthy homes, succeed in school, contribute to their communities, and thrive in life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEOPLES ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL | $1,165,000 |
| GATEWAY UNIVERSITY | $714,467 |
| NEWARK COMMUNITY STREET TEAM | $480,000 |
| LEADERS FOR LIFE | $280,000 |
| IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS | $262,427 |
| CLINTON HILL COMMUNITY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER | $231,461 |
| FAMILY CONNECTIONS | $210,000 |
| GREAT OAKS LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL | $204,730 |
| YOUTHBUILD NEWARK | $195,057 |
| GREATER NEWARK HEALTHCARE COALITION | $170,216 |
| PROPEL AMERICA | $162,391 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $135,000 |
| VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE | $130,000 |
| TEAM ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC | $129,258 |
| THE KNOWLEDGE HOUSE | $125,168 |
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 (FY19–25, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
32 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- NCNewark Community Street Team Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +330% · 26% of their budget
- LFLeaders for Life Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +211% · 58% of their budget
- IAIMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS7× · 2019–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +58%
Funded once
- CCCOUNTY CORNERS 4-H CLUBone grant, 2024 · $276k · revenue 0%
- TKTHE KNOWLEDGE HOUSE TOTALone grant, 2023 · $252k
- NYNEWARK YOUTH CAREER PATHWAYS TOTALone grant, 2023 · $251k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is County Corners 4-H Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 57 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 Newark Community Street Team Inc ↗
- Who funds Leaders for Life Inc ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS ↗
- Who funds Greater Newark Health Care Coalition ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds YouthBuild Newark Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HILL COMMUNITY AND EARLY CHILDHO ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY UNIVERSITY SCHOOLS OF APPLIED SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN ↗
- Who funds PROPEL AMERICA ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROGRAMS FOR PARENTS INC ↗
- Who funds Newark Trust for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSET PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds La Casa De Don Pedro Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNTY CORNERS 4-H CLUB ↗
- Who funds Newark Alliance INC ↗
- Who funds TRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PERINATAL HEALTH EQUITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION LINKS INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK ↗
- Who funds KIPP TEAM AND FAMILY SCHOOLS INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Victoria Foundation Inc · The Prudential Foundation · Schumann Fund for New Jersey Inc · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · Turrell Fund · Pseg Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · New Jersey Children's Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Greater Newark Health Care Coalition
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 Ward Alliance 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.
- Programs for Parents Inc — 92% of income from government
- Family Connections Inc — 83% of income from government
- Prevention Links Inc — 66% of income from government
- La Casa De Don Pedro Inc — 58% of income from government
- Newark Community Street Team Inc — 38% of income from government
- YouthBuild Newark Inc — 27% of income from government
- Leaders for Life Inc — 24% of income from government
- Clinton Hill Community and Early Childho — 22% of income from government
- Team Academy Charter School Inc — 10% of income from government
- Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in — 9% of income from government
- Great Oaks Charter School — 9% of income from government
- Youth Consultation Service Inc — 6% of income from government
- Newark Alliance Inc — 6% of income from government
- Clinton Hill Community Action Inc — 6% of income from government
- United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/a United Way of Greater Newark — 2% of income from government
- Trio New College Network Inc — 2% of income from government
- Kipp Team and Family Schools Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.