New Jersey · 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.
- $5.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $130,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,165,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 34
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations South Ward Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $5.4M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $4.2M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $5.4M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $3.8M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $2.7M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $3.2M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $4.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newark Community Street Team Inc | $2,960,527 | 7 | 26% |
| Leaders for Life Inc | $2,076,615 | 7 | 58% |
| Imagine a Center for Coping With Loss | $1,581,860 | 7 | 18% |
| Greater Newark Health Care Coalition | $1,500,214 | 7 | 14% |
| Family Connections Inc | $1,458,054 | 7 | 2% |
| YouthBuild Newark Inc | $1,251,722 | 7 | 6% |
| Great Oaks Charter School | $1,242,432 | 6 | 1% |
| Clinton Hill Community and Early Childho | $1,197,765 | 4 | 15% |
| Achieve Community Charter School | $1,179,076 | 5 | 10% |
| Gateway University Schools of Applied Science | $1,049,447 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 40 grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
South Ward Alliance supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About South Ward Alliance
- How much does South Ward Alliance give?
- South Ward Alliance reported 26 grants totaling $5,410,180 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 34 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does South Ward Alliance fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (92%), Human Services (3%), Crime & Legal (3%).
- Who are South Ward Alliance's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Newark Community Street Team Inc ($3.0M), Leaders for Life Inc ($2.1M), Imagine a Center for Coping With Loss ($1.6M).
- Does South Ward Alliance fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as South Ward Alliance?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Victoria Foundation Inc, The Prudential Foundation.
- Where is South Ward Alliance based?
- South Ward Alliance is based in NJ.
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