· Private foundation
The Forman S Acton Educational Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of The Forman S Acton Educational Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of New Jersey, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 30 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $203k
- $250k+1 grant · $669k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH JERSEY | $669,050 |
| SALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $87,958 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY | $63,532 |
| THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY | $51,115 |
| STOCKTON UNIVERSITY | $47,099 |
| ONE VILLAGE ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $19,909 |
| ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE | $18,750 |
| COLLEGE RETENTION FUND | $18,280 |
| DREW UNIVERSITY | $16,195 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $13,331 |
| STONEHILL COLLEGE | $12,500 |
| HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $12,500 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | $11,941 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 44% of The Forman S Acton Educational Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in NJ; by stated purpose, 50%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDREW UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $179k · revenue +2%
- TUThe University of Tampa Incorporated7× · 2018–2024 · $62k · revenue +64%
- ECELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE3× · 2022–2024 · $54k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- RURowan University CASEone grant, 2018 · $98k
- DUDelaware Universityone grant, 2018 · $12k
- SUSalisbury Universityone grant, 2018 · $10k
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
50 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. 50 of the 113 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds DREW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
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- Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Michael J and Patricia Levitt Family Charitable Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Td Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Forman S Acton Educational Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Forman S Acton Educational Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Tri-County Community Action Agency Inc: 41% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
- Delaware State University: 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
- University of New Haven: 1% of income from government
- Jacksonville University: 1% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University: 1% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc: 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
- Goldey-Beacom College: 0% of income from government
- Seton Hall University: 0% of income from government
- Drew University: 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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