How much did SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE grant in FY2023?

SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE reported 34 grants totaling $5,601,309 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE based?

SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE is based in NJ.

SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· 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.

$5.6M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$458k

Largest

01What you fund

0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2023.

Education$4.6MHealth$3.6MHuman Services$3.1MCrime & Legal$2.4MYouth Development$912kHousing & Shelter$527kPhilanthropy$113kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$4.1M

02FY2023 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k5 grants · $137k
$50k–250k22 grants · $3.4M
$250k+6 grants · $1.9M

$162,240

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

CLINTON HILL COMMUNITY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER$458,197
LEADERS FOR LIFE$425,775
IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS$262,923
NEWARK COMMUNITY STREET TEAM$260,636
THE KNOWLEDGE HOUSE TOTAL$251,910
NEWARK YOUTH CAREER PATHWAYS TOTAL$251,325
GATEWAY U TOTAL$249,977
PROPEL AMERICA$249,535
ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER$242,826
GREAT OAKS LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL$238,959
FAMILY CONNECTIONS$232,829
GREATER NEWARK HEALTHCARE COALITION$226,805
YOUTHBUILD NEWARK$210,269
UNCOMMON SCHOOLS$209,000
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TOTAL$165,686

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$17M · 25 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$814k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%

+169%

Still filing today

84%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

NC
NEWARK COMMUNITY STREET TEAM
5× · 2019–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +1522% · 26% of their budget
LF
LEADERS FOR LIFE
5× · 2019–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +470% · 58% of their budget
AC
ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER
5× · 2019–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +895%

Funded once

TC
TRIO COLLEGE NETWORK INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +169%
SS
SPITFIRE STRATEGIES
one grant, 2020 · $148k
EP
EXPONENT PARTNERS
one grant, 2020 · $131k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

New Jersey Public Charter Schools

To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.

Education

Ethical Community Charter School

The Ethical Community Charter School is a NJ public school overseen by the State Department of Education. The school offers an academic program that encourages analytical thinking and creativity to help children.

Education

Newark Community Health Centers Inc

The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…

Health

New Jersey Citizen Action Education

Promotes empowerment of low and middle income people through research, education, and training around public policy issues and direct counseling services.

Public Benefit

The Learning Community Charter School

The Learning Community Charter School is a Public School overseen by the NJ Department Of Education. The School offers an alternative academic program to assist children to discover their talents and provides a community resource and a…

Education

New Jersey Policy Perspective Inc

New jersey policy perspective (njpp) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.

Arts & Culture

Council of New Jersey Grantmakers Inc

Cnjg supports and elevates new jersey's philanthropic community through shared learning, collaborative and trusting relationships, networking building, and leadership.

Philanthropy

Community Charter School of Paterson

The Community Charter School of Paterson (CCSP) is a public charter school providing an exceptional educational experience for 900 students in grades K-8. Founded as a Community School,CCSP prepares its students for success in college and…

Education

Unity Charter School

The unity charter school (ucs) was chartered by the new jersey department of education in january 1997 as the only charter school that had included a planning year prior to its opening. the charter school opened its doors to the first 60…

Education

Junior Achievement of New Jersey

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.

International

Charter School of New Castle

A delaware charter school with a mission that acknowledges the learning differences of each individual child and nurtures the uniqueness of each family structure.

Education

Nj Leep Inc

A college access and success program serving low income and first-generation students in the greater newark area, empowering them with academic and skills to succeed in college.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newark Trust for Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in. 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 24 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%1/27

the rest of the field

10%

2,984/29,246

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.

04the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

22/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$4,602,250Other$4,174,233Health$3,616,863Human Services$3,060,373Crime & Legal$2,432,629Youth Development$911,608Housing & Shelter$526,712

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.

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ41.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Victoria Foundation Inc · Schumann Fund for New Jersey Inc · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey · The Prudential Foundation · New Jersey Children's Foundation · Turrell Fund · Columbia Bank Foundation · Greater Newark Health Care Coalition · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Newark Charter School Fund 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LEADERS FOR LIFE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~23 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 900545115 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LEADERS FOR LIFE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 23 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 58% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to South Ward Alliance?

Find your warmest path to South Ward Alliance through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to South Ward Alliance?

More from the funding graph

SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to South Ward Alliance?

More from the funding graph