· Private foundation
The Kotzas Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Medical Center Foundation | $26,325 |
| Woodland Vol Fire and EMS Inc | $5,000 |
| Northern Ocean Habitat for Humanity | $4,500 |
| Fortis Foundation | $3,900 |
| Hope Sheds Light | $3,500 |
| Move for Hunger | $3,000 |
| Ocean County College Foundation | $2,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Associated Humane Societies | $2,000 |
| Providence House | $2,000 |
| United Way of Monmouth Ocean Counti | $2,000 |
| Open Arms | $1,850 |
| International Fund for Animal Welfa | $1,500 |
| Fulfill | $1,500 |
| The Friends of Island Beach State P | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 15 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NONORTHERN OCEAN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +56%
- TFTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +30%
- HSHOPE SHEDS LIGHT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +152%
Funded once
- CVCaregiver Volunteers of Central NJone grant, 2020 · $6k
DELAWARE VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
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.
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…
The mission of the nj animal advocacy alliance is to protect the welfare of all homeless animals by reducing the number of homeless animals, offering low cost spay and neuter clinics, raising awareness and educating our youth.
The Marine Mammal Stranding Center (MMSC) was formed in 1978 for the purpose of rescue, rehabilitation and release of stranded, sick or injured marine mammals and sea turtles. MMSC is the only state and federally authorized facility in the…
The Voorhees Animal Orphanage ("VAO") is a 501-c-3 non-profit Municipal Animal Shelter dedicated to providing shelter, food and medical care to stray and unwanted animals until permanent homes can be found. We are an open-intake shelter…
To provide shelter and care for animals in need and reduce euthanasia of surplus animals through spaying and neutering.
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…
Grateful Paws NJ is a non-profit organization devoted to rescuing stray and abandoned animals throughout New Jersey, providing medical care and helping them to find new homes.
Prevention of cruelty to animals
How this is measured
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 100 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 THE FRIENDS OF ISLAND BEACH STATE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MOVE FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF OCEAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds 21 PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kotzas Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kotzas Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Center Corporation: 21% of income from government
- Hope Sheds Light Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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