· Private foundation
The Rue Foundationinc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k27 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SERV BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEMS INC | $75,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRENTON | $50,000 |
| HOMEFRONT INC | $37,500 |
| RWJUH AT HAMILTON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| EVERAS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| AVIDD COMMUNITY SERVICES OF NJ | $7,500 |
| QUALITY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES | $7,500 |
| HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA | $7,500 |
| ANCHOR HOUSE INC | $7,500 |
| OCEAN | $6,000 |
| NEIGHBOURS INC | $6,000 |
| PILOT SERVICES | $6,000 |
| RESCUE MISSION OF TRENTON | $6,000 |
| HOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC | $5,000 |
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, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
54 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
HOMEFRONT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $358k · revenue +62%
ANCHOR HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +108%- ECEveras Community Services Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CRANBURYone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
Alternatives, inc was established to provide comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.
To deliver quality and compassionate behavioral health services to individuals and families all the time through a trauma informed care philosophy and approach.
To empower and support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. this organization will utilize all its resources to ensure that our individuals served, their families and all people with intellectual and…
The arc of essex county provides advocacy and services empowering individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to realize a lifetime of personal achievement and full partnership in the community.
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
The YMCA of Montclair welcomes all. We are a nonprofit that strengthens individuals, families, and community by developing spirit, mind, and body. Membership is open to all, with financial assistance available to those who live in our…
Milestone provides quality, life-enhancing services that promote wellness and the development of human potential to people with behavioral health and intellectual challenges. each year milestone serves approximately 3,500 residents of…
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…
Melmark is a human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals within diverse communities with…
Integrity is committed to help individuals and families through an effective and measurable system of comprehensive therapeutic community addictions treatment, mental health services, and recovery support in a way that brings about…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alzheimer's New Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Quality Management Associates Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 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 4% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 57 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 HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Everas Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Neighbours Inc ↗
- Who funds QUALITY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey ↗
- Who funds AVIDD COMMUNITY SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds RARITAN VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds EDEN AUTISM SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Embright Education ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DAWN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL COUNTY CHILDREN'S COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MERCER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BETTER BEGINNINGS DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER OF WARREN COUNTY ↗
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: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Provident Bank Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Rue Foundationinc 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.
- Ocean Inc — 49% of income from government
- Anchor House Inc — 45% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Somerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 22% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey — 8% of income from government
- Everas Community Services Inc — 6% of income from government
- Homeless Solutions Inc — 6% of income from government
- Quality Management Associates Inc — 4% of income from government
- Dawn Center for Independent Living Inc — 3% of income from government
- Neighbours Inc — 0% of income from government
- Eden Autism Services Inc — 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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