· Public charity
The Giants Foundation Inc
The giants foundation was created with the goal of assisting organizations dedicated to tackling important community issues, improving overall health and empowering our youth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $1,060,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,492,732 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $432,732 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k12 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $100,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CITY MEALS ON WHEELS | $100,000 |
| MY SISTER'S PLACE | $100,000 |
| JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE | $100,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NEW JERSEY | $100,000 |
| NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY | $50,000 |
| TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND | $50,000 |
| WINDSOR BOARD OF EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ROCK & WRAP IT UP | $15,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $15,000 |
| PET RESCUE | $15,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% of The Giants Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 18% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 14 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $740k 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
- MSMy Sisters Place Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $250k · revenue +38%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $140k · revenue +50%- PRPET RESCUE INCORPORATED6× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $120k · revenue +37%
- BHBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPEone grant, 2023 · $100k
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -4%
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.
Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of New Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tiger Football Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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. 41 of the 63 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 My Sisters Place Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds Boys Hope Girls Hope of NY Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds PET RESCUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ROCK & WRAP IT UP INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds THE TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELCHAIR SPORTS FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERGING VETS AND PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds OWN YOUR FUTURE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds LIFE CAMPS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEXTGEN FACE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WINTER ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SECTION 2 OF THE NYSPHSAA 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: Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 organization The Giants Foundation 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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