· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization South Ward Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Ward Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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