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The Mimi Washington Starrett Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of THE MIMI WASHINGTON STARRETT FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $520k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$500,000
THE ARC MORRIS COUNTY CHAPTER NJ INC$40,000
NOURISH NJ INC$30,000
JERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC$25,000
CENTER FOR EVALUATION AND COUNSELING INC$25,000
DEIRDRE O BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC$25,000
MORRIS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$25,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF MORRIS COUNTY INC$25,000
MACCULLOCH HALL HISTORICAL MUSEUM$20,000
MORRIS ARTS$20,000
ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION$20,000
EDGE NEW JERSEY INC$20,000
INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC$20,000
CHESHIRE HOME INC$15,000
MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $15k → 7%NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $15k → 7%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $10k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $10k → 4%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $15k → 4%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $15k → 4%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $15k → 4%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $20k → 4%CHESHIRE HOME INC: $25k → 4%CHESHIRE HOME INC: $15k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 29 repeat orgs$350k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
11

Total granted

$1.9M
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+22%

Still filing today

93%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

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

  • GOOD GRIEF INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +11%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR EVALUATION & COUNSELING INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +82%
  • JERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • LS
    LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +17%
  • ME
    MORRIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -10%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE MORRISTOWN GREEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +143%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New Jersey Association for Mental Health

The mission of the mental health association in new jersey is to provide support and education advocacy on behalf of persons with mental illness and educate the public regarding mental health and illness in new jersey.

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2
Avidd Community Services of New Jersey Inc

The organization's primary mission is to enable developmentally disabled individuals to develop fully within the structure of family life which encourages responsibility, growth, and independence.

Health
3
Corporation for New Jersey Local Media

We build strong communities through journalism and civic engagement.

Public Benefit
4
The Alliance for Morris County Parks Inc

To improve and enhance the programs and facilities of the morris count, new jersey public park system.

Recreation & Sports
5
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
6
Morristown Partners Inc T/a Morristown Partnership

Foster and encourage self-help programs to enhance the local business climate, provide administrative and other services to benefit business, employees, residents and consumers and promote and preserve the cultural, historic, touristic and…

Community Improvement
7
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Inc

New jersey institute for social justice (the institute), a public charity, is a newark-based urban research and advocacy organization dedicated to the advancement of new jersey's urban areas and residents.

Human Services
8
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
9
Home Care Options Inc

To serve the expanding and evolving in-home needs of residents of northern nj by delivering a continuum of care for clients and families through the services of a highly trained caring and compassionate workforce.

Human Services
10
Advance Housing Inc

The mission of advance housing, inc. is to expand the range and scope of supportive housing opportunities available to persons with psychiatric disabilities. in addition, we will seek to make similar options and services available to other…

Housing & Shelter
11
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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12
Advocates for Children of New Jersey

To identify children's needs through research, policy and legal analysis, to raise awareness of those needs through strategic communications, and to work with elected officials and other decision-makers to enact effective responses.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the Morristown Green 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsHome Health ServicesProfessional Trade Associat…Special Education SchoolsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionMorris County Community Ser…Early Childhood Care & Educ…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr17%33%35–55yr12%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr17%40%35–55yr12%21%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
9%
311/3,340

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 60 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
37/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAYO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $525,000 · OtherMAYO PERFORMING ARTS CENTERBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC — $100,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY …FAMILY PROMISE OF MORRIS COUNTY INC — $75,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF MORRIS COUNTY INCMORRIS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $75,000 · OtherMORRIS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCTHE ARC MORRIS COUNTY CHAPTER NEW JERSEY INC — $40,000 · Other+22 more — $345,340 · Other+22 moreGOOD GRIEF INC — $110,000 · HealthGOOD GRIEF INCCENTER FOR EVALUATION & COUNSELING INC — $110,000 · HealthCENTER FOR EVALU…Newbridge Services Inc — $28,950 · HealthNewbridge Servic…ALZHEIMER'S NEW JERSEY INC — $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S NEW …ZUFALL HEALTH CENTER INC — $20,000 · HealthZUFALL HEALTH CE…FREEDOM HOUSE INC — $20,000 · HealthFREEDOM HOUSE IN…+2 more — $20,000 · Health+2 moreJERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesJERSEY BATTERE…THE SEEING EYE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE…Community Hope Inc — $45,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Hope…CHESHIRE HOME INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesCHESHIRE HOME …NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST NEW …ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesROOTS & WINGS …CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS — $20,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE FA…NOURISHNJ INC — $130,000 · Food & NutritionNOURISHNJ …INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $70,000 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH…TABLE TO TABLE INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCOUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EducationTHE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC — $30,900 · EducationPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC — $20,000 · EducationMORRIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC — $10,000 · EducationMENDHAM BOROUGH LIBRARY — $6,756 · Education+1 more — $2,550 · EducationMORRIS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 · Arts & CultureGROWING STAGE THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureART IN THE ATRIUM INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $45,000 · PhilanthropyTRUSTEES OF THE MORRISTOWN GREEN INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,160,340Health$328,950Human Services$280,000Food & Nutrition$210,000Education$155,206Arts & Culture$70,000Philanthropy$55,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNOURISHNJ INC — $130,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGOOD GRIEF INC — $110,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCENTER FOR EVALUATION & COUNSELING INC — $110,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetJERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF MORRIS COUNTY INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMORRIS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Hope Inc — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESHIRE HOME INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARC MORRIS COUNTY CHAPTER NEW JERSEY INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC — $30,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMACCULLOCH HALL HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetNewbridge Services Inc — $28,950 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MORRIS AND SUSSEX COUNTIES INC — $25,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S NEW JERSEY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetZUFALL HEALTH CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMT PLEASANT ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMORRIS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEDGE NEW JERSEY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGROWING STAGE THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMORRIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE MORRISTOWN GREEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTABLE TO TABLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPG CHAMBERS SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCANCER HOPE NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALFRE INC DBA MRS WILSONS HALFWAY HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMENDHAM BOROUGH LIBRARY — $6,756 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY — $5,340 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARMONIUM A CLASSICAL CHORAL SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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.

The Hyde and Watson F…Fm Kirby Foundation I…Investors Foundation …Community Foundation …The Provident Bank Fo…Atlantic Health Syste…Citizens Philanthropi…Columbia Bank Foundat…The John Bickford Fou…Blue Foundry Charitab…Ej Grassmann TrustBristol-Myers Squibb …
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ72.4× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Provident Bank Foundation · Atlantic Health System Inc Group Return · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · The John Bickford Foundation · Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc

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 Mimi Washington Starrett Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
  • Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Zufall Health Center Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Newbridge Services Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Family Promise of Morris County Inc — 17% of income from government
  • The Discovery Orchestra Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Edge New Jersey Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Morris Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Cheshire Home Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Homeless Solutions Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Freedom House Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
  • Legal Services of Northwest Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The 11TH Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/a Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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