· Private foundation
The Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & Bloom
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Jersey Symphony Orchestra | $50,000 |
| Newark Museum | $35,000 |
| Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation | $30,000 |
| Kent Place School | $20,000 |
| Saint Peter's University | $20,000 |
| The Craig School | $20,000 |
| Enfield Shaker Museum | $15,000 |
| Saint Vincent Academy | $15,000 |
| House of Faith Inc | $15,000 |
| Adler Aphrasia Center | $15,000 |
| Mascoma Valley Preservation | $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 |
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, $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 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 +41% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- NJNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA5× · 2020–2024 · $285k · revenue ×23
- SPSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +4%
- MVMASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- HHHudson Hospice Volunteers Incone grant, 2020 · $18k
- HMHackensack Meridian Health Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +80%
- FOFriends of Grafton Libraryone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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…
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.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The Organization's mission is to improve the safety, quality, and affordability of healthcare for everyone.
Support organization
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.
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
Retirement housing
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.
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.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc and 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.
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 34 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 6% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 43 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 NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds KENT PLACE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds House of Faith Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CRAIG SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds ADLER APHASIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & Bloom 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.
- 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
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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