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The Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & Bloom at a glance

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The Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & Bloom

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$399k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$713kEducation$460kHealth$323kHousing & Shelter$73kEnvironment$58kHuman Services$44kFood & Nutrition$39kAnimals$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$8,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra$50,000
Newark Museum$35,000
Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation$30,000
Saint Peter's University$20,000
The Craig School$20,000
Kent Place School$20,000
House of Faith Inc$15,000
Mascoma Valley Preservation$15,000
Adler Aphrasia Center$15,000
Enfield Shaker Museum$15,000
Saint Vincent Academy$15,000
Wilderness Inquiry$13,500
New Jersey SEEDS$12,000
Children's Specialized Hospital Foundation$10,000
Community FoodBank of New Jersey$9,500
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 (FY20–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Faith's Lodge: $5k → 11%Oasis Haven for Women and Children: $6k → 12%Faith's Lodge: $4k → 11%Oasis Haven for Women and Children: $5k → 12%Faith's Lodge: $4k → 11%Oasis Haven for Women and Children: $4k → 12%Faith's Lodge: $4k → 11%Oasis Haven for Women and Children: $4k → 12%Faith's Lodge: $3k → 11%Oasis Haven for Women and Children: $2k → 12%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 33 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
5

Total granted

$1.7M
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+25%

Still filing today

73%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $285k · revenue ×23
  • SP
    SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +4%
  • KP
    KENT PLACE SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • HH
    Hudson Hospice Volunteers Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $18k
  • HM
    Hackensack Meridian Health Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +80%
  • TO
    Town of Enfield
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
2
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
3
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
4
New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Inc

The Organization's mission is to improve the safety, quality, and affordability of healthcare for everyone.

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5
Bridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc

Support organization

Health
6
Humc Medical Observation Pa

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

—
7
Bridgewater Home Inc

Assisted Living and Nursing Care

Human Services
8
Bridgewater Village Inc

Retirement housing

Housing & Shelter
9
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
10
Hackensack Specialty Care Associates Pc

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

Health
11
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

—
12
Humc Cardiovascular Partners Pc

The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc; the most unlike its peers is Curepsp Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
24/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Newark Museum: $175,000 · OtherNewark MuseumHackensack Meridian Health Foundation: $85,000 · OtherHackensack Meridian Health FoundationEnfield Shaker Museum: $80,000 · OtherEnfield Shaker MuseumHouse of Faith Inc: $72,500 · OtherHouse of Faith IncST VINCENTS ACADEMY: $64,000 · OtherST VINCENTS ACADEMYHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INC: $60,000 · OtherHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INCST BENEDICTS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $42,500 · OtherST BENEDICTS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCJohn Cabot University: $35,000 · OtherCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $32,000 · Other+14 more: $132,200 · Other+14 moreNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $285,000 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY OR…ARTS ETC: $38,500 · Arts & CultureARTS ETCTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INCLEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationSAINT PETER'S UNIVE…KENT PLACE SCHOOL: $80,000 · EducationKENT PLACE SCHOOLTHE CRAIG SCHOOL: $61,500 · EducationTHE CRAIG SCHOOLNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $50,000 · EducationNEW JERSEY SEEDS IN…Colby-Sawyer College: $17,200 · EducationColby-Sawyer Colleg…ADLER APHASIA CENTER: $55,000 · HealthADLER APHA…CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S…MASCOMA COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE INC: $35,000 · HealthMASCOMA CO…Hackensack Meridian Health Inc: $10,000 · HealthHackensack…+2 more: $9,500 · Health+2 moreMASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION: $80,000 · Community ImprovementPENNSYLVANIA KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Community ImprovementWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $57,500 · EnvironmentOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHILD LOSS FOUNDATION: $18,500 · Human Services
Other$778,200Arts & Culture$363,500Education$308,700Health$159,500Community Improvement$88,000Environment$57,500Human Services$38,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $285,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKENT PLACE SCHOOL: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION: $80,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetHouse of Faith Inc: $72,500 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetTHE CRAIG SCHOOL: $61,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $57,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetADLER APHASIA CENTER: $55,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetARTS ETC: $38,500 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetMASCOMA COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $32,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY MARINE MAMMAL NETWORK: $18,700 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCHILD LOSS FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $17,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHackensack Meridian Health Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKiawah Island Community Association Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCUREPSP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUR GRANDMOTHERS CUPBOARD: $3,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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 NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KENT PLACE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION ↗
  • Who funds House of Faith Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CRAIG SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
  • Who funds ADLER APHASIA CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY SEEDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS ETC ↗
  • Who funds MASCOMA COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MORRIS MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY MARINE MAMMAL NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hudson Hospice Volunteers Inc ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
  • Who funds LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds Hackensack Meridian Health Inc ↗
  • Who funds Kiawah Island Community Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA KIWANIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB ↗
  • Who funds CUREPSP INC ↗
  • Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT 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.

The Charles E & Edna …Investors Foundation …Bristol-Myers Squibb …Union FoundationEj Grassmann TrustThe Hyde and Watson F…The McJ Amelior Found…John a and Margaret P…Community Foundation …Ibm International Fou…George a Ohl Jr TrustTurrell Fund
The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAsNJ26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs · Investors Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Union Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The McJ Amelior Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Ibm International Foundation · George a Ohl Jr Trust · Turrell 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 Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & Bloom funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & Bloom. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • House of Faith Inc: 93% of income from government
  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra: 21% of income from government
  • Adler Aphasia Center: 12% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The Morris Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Saint Peter's University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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