· Public charity
The Watershed Institute Inc
Keeping water clean, safe and healthy is the heart of our mission.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $358k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUNICIPALITY OF PRINCETON | $358,333 |
| FREINDS OF HOPEWELL QUARRY | $50,000 |
| DELAWARE RIVER KEEPER NETWORK | $28,142 |
| ASSOC OF NJ ENVIRONMENTAL COM | $19,566 |
| AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY | $18,779 |
| PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE | $14,549 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 91% of your 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.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- ALAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY5× · 2019–2023 · $110k · revenue +129%
- DRDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION5× · 2019–2023 · $104k · revenue +31%
- AOASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS5× · 2019–2023 · $94k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- MCMORRIS COUNTY PARK COMMISSIONone grant, 2019 · $12k
- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +133%
- UPURBAN PROMISEone grant, 2022 · $9k
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.
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…
The land conservancy of new jersey preserves land and water resources, conserves open space, and inspires and empowers individuals and communities to protect land and the environment.
Conserve wildlife foundation of new jersey works to preserve rare and at-risk wildlife in new jersey through field science, habitat restoration, education, and public engagement.
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, Inc. Is an alliance of New Jersey Organizations and Individuals committed to creating healthy, sustainable and just communities by eliminating environmental injustices in low income and…
Ridge and valley conservancy is an accredited land trust that, in cooperation with strategic partners, permanently protects and stewards land in northwestern new jersey for the benefit of natural communities.
The Native Plant Society of New Jersey is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation protection and study of the native flora of New Jersey.
The New Jersey Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership Inc. NJCWRP facilitates public and private partnerships for the restoration and preservation of ecosystems in New Jersey and surrounding areas. The NJCWRP also educates the public…
Clean ocean action's goal is to improve and protect the waters off the new jersey/new york coast from pollution, plastics, industrialization and climate change with research, education and citizen action.
Pleasant river wildlife foundation's mission is to protect scarce, high value wildlife habitat in coastal washington county on the downeast coast of maine. our highest priority is the protection of intertidal and freshwater wetlands and…
To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Swamp Watershed Association and the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS ↗
- Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds Friends of Hopewell Quarry ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SOURLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Great Swamp Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds LOWER RARITAN WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP CORP ↗
- Who funds D&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN CITY GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds South Jersey Land & Water Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY 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 William Penn Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Environmental Endowment for New Jersey Inc · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Duke Farms Foundation · New Jersey Conservation Foundation
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 Watershed Institute 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.
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- Musconetcong Watershed Association — 14% of income from government
- D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc — 9% of income from government
- American Littoral Society — 1% 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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