· Private foundation
The Kotzas Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Medical Center Foundation | $22,500 |
| Providence House | $5,000 |
| Just Believe Inc | $5,000 |
| Northern Ocean Habitat for Humanity | $3,750 |
| Ocean County College Foundation | $3,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Fortis Foundation | $2,900 |
| Open Arms | $2,525 |
| Delaware Valley Food Pantry | $2,500 |
| Hope Sheds Light | $2,000 |
| Jersey Shore Animal Center | $2,000 |
| Ocean's Harbor House Foundation | $2,000 |
| United Way of Monmouth Ocean Counti | $2,000 |
| Woodland Vol Fire and EMS Inc | $2,000 |
| The Friends of Island Beach State P | $1,660 |
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 (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
39 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 11 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- NONORTHERN OCEAN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +56%
- TFTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +30%
- HSHOPE SHEDS LIGHT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +152%
Funded once
- CVCaregiver Volunteers of Central NJone grant, 2020 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- MCMERCY CENTER CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +421%
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 organization, a not-for-profit acute care hospital serving the ocean county region, is committed to enhancing the overall health status of the community by providing the highest quality healthcare and related services including…
To meet the healthcare needs of our community by providing cost-effective quality care. to educate present and future generations of healthcare providers. to provide a continuum of regional tertiary care. please refer to the organization's…
The organization's mission is to offer healthcare services with compassion and dignity. the organization provides patients, their families and all in need, excellence in hospital and healthcare services and programs to enhance community…
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…
For Education, Safety, Protection, Recovery, and Prevention From Cruelty for All Cetaceans Especially Dolphins
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,…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Prevention of cruelty to animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roots & Wings Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Culleystrong Foundation. 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 26 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 85 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 COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN OCEAN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL ↗
- Who funds HOPE SHEDS LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds JERSEY SHORE ANIMAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF ISLAND BEACH STATE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF OCEAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC ↗
- Who funds LIV LIKE A UNICORN ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC ↗
- Who funds 21 PLUS FOUNDATION 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: Oceanfirst Foundation · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · The Citta Foundation Inc · Wintrode Family Foundation Inc · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Donofrio Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The H Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jean R D Hecht & Betty Rae Hecht Charitable Foundation · The Buckelew Family 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 Kotzas Family Charitable 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.
- Mercy Center Corporation — 21% of income from government
- Hope Sheds Light Inc — 7% 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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