· Private foundation
The James Kerney Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $242k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rescue Mission | $40,750 |
| 120 East State | $25,000 |
| Womanspace | $25,000 |
| Homeworks Trenton Inc | $21,000 |
| JR Halsey Foundation of the Arts | $18,000 |
| PEI Kids | $16,754 |
| Homefront | $15,500 |
| Paul Robeson Charter School | $15,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $12,500 |
| Trenton Circus Squad | $12,000 |
| The Makers Place | $10,006 |
| Arm in Arm | $10,000 |
| Anchor House | $10,000 |
| Dress for Success | $10,000 |
| Mercer Street Friends | $7,787 |
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 (FY17–25, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +64% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 6 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; $62k 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
HOMEFRONT INC8× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +62%
WOMANSPACE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +79%
HomeWorks Trenton3× · 2019–2025 · $91k · revenue ×15
Funded once
- JJJR Jalsey Foundation of the Artsone grant, 2024 · $27k
UIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jerseygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $23k · revenue +108%- TETHOMAS EDISON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k
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 mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by promoting…
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
To improve the health and well-being of the populations we serve in urban and suburban communities.
To advance member interests, operational and environmental excellence, science,education, and community outreach in New Jersey.
In partnership with the Christian home and church, we strive to provide the finest Christ-centered education, equipping students to live productive, God-glorifying lives. We are a co-educational college prep school serving students from…
New jersey institute for social justice (the institute), a public charity, is a newark-based urban research and advocacy organization dedicated to the advancement of new jersey's urban areas and residents.
The mission of teen arts new jersey is to provide comprehensive programming, support, access, and resources that empower students to explore, excel, and thrive creatively.
The Organization's mission is to improve the safety, quality, and affordability of healthcare for everyone.
To make the capital city of Trenton, NJ a more competitive location for business owners and an engaging center for workers, residents, and visitors.
The charter schools mission is to prepare newarks next generation of children to be intelectually, emotionally, socially and financially responsible citizens.
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.
We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship, environmental…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prevention Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Johann Fust Library Foundation Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 109 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 HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds WOMANSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds HomeWorks Trenton ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds ARM IN ARM INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County ↗
- Who funds Fernbrook Environmental Education Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Capital Harmony Works Inc ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds 120 East State ↗
- Who funds UIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds MILLHILL CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds OLD BARRACKS ASSOCIATION OF TRENTON NEW ↗
- Who funds The Makers Place Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNT CARMEL GUILD OF TRENTON NJ ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds Artworks Trenton Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRENTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS 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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Merancas Foundation Inc · Tenacre Foundation · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · FirstBank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Burke Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw 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 The James Kerney Foundation 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.
- Mount Carmel Guild of Trenton Nj — 100% of income from government
- Old Barracks Association of Trenton New — 90% of income from government
- Crossroads of the American Revolution Association Inc — 62% of income from government
- Womanspace Inc — 47% of income from government
- Anchor House Inc — 45% of income from government
- Prevention Education Inc — 39% of income from government
- Trenton Health Team Inc — 31% of income from government
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Artworks Trenton Inc — 8% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
- Freedom House Inc — 4% of income from government
- Brookline Music School Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% 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.