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The John E Kostic Memorial Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$308kPhilanthropy$23kEducation$21kFood & Nutrition$5kInternational$2kHuman Services$2kReligion$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$517k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COOPER FOUNDATION$3,500
DELRAN HIGH SCHOOL$2,000
FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY$1,500
RIDER UNIVERSITY$1,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION NJ$500
ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP$500
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF UNITED STATES$500
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$500
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION$500
Individual grant recipient$500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$500
MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION$250
ALS ASSOCIATION$250
DEBORAH HOSP FOUNDATION$250
HMS SCHOOL FOR CEREBRAL PALSY$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $350) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $200 → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $150 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$338k · 14 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
35

Total granted

$338k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+140%

Still filing today

57%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionReligionEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $304k · revenue +8%
  • FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +164%
  • DM
    Delran Middle and High School PTA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • AG
    A GAHAN
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • MK
    M KAYE
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • MY
    M YELPER
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
St Joseph's Health System Subordinate Group Return

We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.

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6
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
7
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
8
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
9
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

The mission of robert wood johnson university hospital is to improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities we serve by fostering an environment of excellence in all areas including the provision of the highest quality,…

Health
10
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
11
Deborah Heart and Lung Center

To provide the highest quality heart, lung and vascular care in a collaborative and welcoming environment, while ensuring access for all.

Health
12
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of New Jersey Inc; the most unlike its peers is Delran Middle and High School Pta. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC: $303,700 · OtherTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INCDELRAN HIGH SCHOOL: $16,000 · Other+42 more: $66,131 · Other+42 moreDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,490 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · HealthNAZARETH HOSPITAL: $500 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC: $500 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $350 · HealthRIDER UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $2,000 · Food & NutritionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 · Human ServicesENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $350 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $732 · ReligionMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $250 · Philanthropy
Other$385,831Health$4,340Education$3,000Food & Nutrition$2,000Human Services$850Religion$732Philanthropy$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INC: $303,700 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC: $2,689 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDelran Middle and High School PTA: $1,800 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,490 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $732 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAZARETH HOSPITAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
  • Who funds Delran Middle and High School PTA ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗

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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ14× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The John E Kostic Memorial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John E Kostic Memorial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Food Bank of South Jersey Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The John E Kostic Memorial Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The John E Kostic Memorial Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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