· Private foundation
The Jersey Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of The Jersey Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Rudolf Steiner Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Jersey Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $83k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESOURCE GENERATION | $50,000 |
| THE FOOD PROJECT | $15,000 |
| THE FARM SCHOOL SENTINEL ELM FARM | $6,000 |
| ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE INC | $5,000 |
| GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| THE CARROT PROJECT | $1,000 |
| WALTHAM FIELDS COMMUNITY FARM | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your 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.
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 +83% since the first grant, against +82% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
RESOURCE GENERATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +206%- TFThe Food Project Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue -9%
- TFTHE FARM SCHOOL SENTINEL ELM FARM2× · 2017–2018 · $12k
Funded once
- WMWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +82%
- GIGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +189%
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +44%
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.
Root capital seeks to increase incomes and stabilize employment for farmers in africa, south-east asia, and latin america. root capital does this through a proven channel: support for agricultural businesses that collect and market the…
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.
The womens fund southcoast advances gender, racial and economic justice through research, grantmaking and advocacy.
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
Capital roots, inc. is a not for profit organization that nourishes healthy communities by providing access to fresh food and green spaces for all. it is our beleif that organic gardening and urban revitilization activites promote self…
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Organic seed alliance puts the power of seed into the hands of growers. our work promotes an abundant and diverse supply of organic seed, tended in perpetuity by skilled, diverse and interconnected communities of seed stewards.
Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.
Astia is a community of experts committed to leveling the playing field for women entrepreneurs by providing access to capital and network for the companies they lead.
Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grassroots International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Women Make Movies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Jersey 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.
- Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% 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.