· Private foundation
Tears 4 Joy Inc
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE THROUGH EDUCATION USA | $45,000 |
| ST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH | $40,000 |
| INSPIRE | $25,000 |
| DIOCESE OF METUCHEN BISHOP APPEAL | $25,000 |
| BROTHERHOOD OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| MARINE RECONNAISSANCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| POPE JOHN XXII HIGHSCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SISTERS OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY | $4,400 |
| SISTERS OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY | $3,600 |
| BONNIE BRAE SCHOOL | $2,700 |
| HOPE THROUGH EDUCATION USA | $1,500 |
| KOINONIA ACADEMY | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +21% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- HTHOPE THROUGH EDUCATION - A FUND FOR BETTER FUTURES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $72k · revenue +21%
- MRMARINE RECONNAISSANCE FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $31k · revenue +12%
- TNThe New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +256%
Funded once
- NRNY RACETRACK CHAPLAINCYone grant, 2020 · $15k
- AMARCHBISHOP MOLLOY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $15k
- BOBRIDGE OF NEW YORKone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The helping hand pregnancy center of sussex county, inc. helps pregnant women who are in crisis to understand and work through the alternatives, enabling them to make an informed decision concerning the outcome of the pregnancy.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
The purpose of the corporation is to share the gospel of jesus christ by offering practical, emotional, and spiritual support to women, men, and children who are facing pregnancy and abortion related concerns, including the provision of…
New hope integrated behavioral health care, inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, provides commission on the accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf) and nj licensed substance use and co-occurring mental health disorder…
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
Bsideu for life is committed to presenting the gospel of our lord in word and deed by educating women facing crisis pregnancies, responding to their needs and protecting the lives of unborn children.bsideu for life also equips mothers and…
The mission of options for women, help for families, is to foster biblical values of human life and family life by offering hope and compassionate help, enabling positive and life affirming choices in the cape girardeau and surrounding…
To provide positive alternative choices to abortion with the specific goal of preserving the lives of the unborn.
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
To provide physical and emotional support to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies through a christ centered and biblically based approach.
We offer pregnancy confirmation servcies including lab quality pregnancy testing and obstetrical ultrasounds for women and couples facing unplanned/ unwanted pregnancies. we also offer eductaion and inforamton on the three options…
The hope always fund is the charitable arm of the hope clinic, which provides reproductive healthcare. the hope always fund will provide financial assistance to patients wishing to utilize the services of the hope clinic, who are unable to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Great Expectations Inc and the most unlike its peers is Homeless Solutions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 36 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 HOPE THROUGH EDUCATION - A FUND FOR BETTER FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE RECONNAISSANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds AAPLOG ACTION ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS UNION COUNCIL 4504 ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE KOINONIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE FOCUS FOUNDATION 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: Conley Family Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Tears 4 Joy Inc 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.
- Homeless Solutions Inc — 6% of income from government
- Assumption University — 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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