· Private foundation
The Prudential Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $385k
- $50k–250k65 grants · $8.3M
- $250k+61 grants · $33M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $3,847,656 |
| NONPROFIT FINANCE FUND | $2,100,000 |
| THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION | $1,300,000 |
| NEWARK ALLIANCE INC | $1,200,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC | $1,100,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC | $1,000,000 |
| FINANCIAL HEALTH NETWORK INC | $800,000 |
| KINDRED FUTURES | $700,000 |
| UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF | $670,000 |
| NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION | $665,000 |
| PROJECT EQUITY | $600,000 |
| YOUTHBUILD NEWARK DOING BUSINESS AS NEWARK OPPORTUNITY YOUTH NETWORK | $600,000 |
| THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION | $575,000 |
| GREATER NEWARK ENTERPRISES CORPORATION | $550,000 |
| LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE | $500,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $35.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of The Prudential Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 37% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
195 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2025, 101 since wound down; 23 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M 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
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +243%
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION8× · 2018–2025 · $16M · revenue +17%- UUNIDOSUS9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +137%
Funded once
- PNPROSPERITY NOWone grant, 2019 · $650k
YEAR UP INCone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +1%- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INCone grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +20%
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.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadersup and the most unlike its peers is Pawsitive Pawsibilities. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
299 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. 299 of the 365 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YouthBuild Newark Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Newark Alliance INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT FINANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Social Finance Inc ↗
- Who funds Change Machine ↗
- Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MyPath ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIV INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK ↗
- Who funds THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEWARK ENTERPRISES CORP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATION ON DISABILITY ↗
- Who funds NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds EARN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds COORDINATED ASSISTANCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITY NOW ↗
- Who funds Newark Trust for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds KINDRED FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LATINO COMMUNITY ASSET BUILDERS ↗
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: Victoria Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · The McJ Amelior Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Nonprofit Finance Fund · Columbia Bank Foundation · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Schumann Fund for New Jersey Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Turrell Fund · Investors 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 Prudential 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.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Youthbuild Global Inc — 69% of income from government
- La Casa De Don Pedro Inc — 58% of income from government
- South Ward Alliance — 57% of income from government
- Newark Public Radio Inc — 51% of income from government
- Newark Community Street Team Inc — 38% of income from government
- YouthBuild Newark Inc — 27% of income from government
- Hispa Inc — 26% of income from government
- Bridges Outreach Inc — 25% of income from government
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
- Newark School of the Arts — 20% of income from government
- Urban League of Essex County — 20% of income from government
- Third Sector Capital Partners Inc — 16% of income from government
- Newark Arts Council — 16% of income from government
- Liberty Science Center — 14% of income from government
- New Growth Innovation Network — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Social Finance Inc — 12% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc — 9% of income from government
- Newark Alliance Inc — 6% of income from government
- Jersey Cares Inc — 6% of income from government
- Clinton Hill Community Action Inc — 6% of income from government
- New Community Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Performs Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/a United Way of Greater Newark — 2% of income from government
- Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries — 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Kipp Team and Family Schools Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.