· Public charity
The Westfield Foundation
The Organization is a not-for-profit established to support the public well-being and improve the quality of life in the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $400,803 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,189,894 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $789,091 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $364k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Access | $37,500 |
| Jewish Family Service | $35,000 |
| Center for Hope Hospice | $29,085 |
| Family Promise | $29,025 |
| Franklin School | $20,000 |
| Jefferson School | $20,000 |
| Greater Somerset County YMCA | $20,000 |
| Students 2 Science | $20,000 |
| Second Street Youth Center Foundati | $19,700 |
| Trinitas Health Foundation | $16,900 |
| Imagine | $15,299 |
| Our House Foundation | $15,000 |
| Sage Eldercare | $15,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Union County | $15,000 |
| Literacy New Jersey | $14,400 |
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 (FY22–24, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 89% 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.
56 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 9 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- SSSECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +20%
- OHOUR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $53k · revenue +3%
FAMILY PROMISE INC2× · 2022–2024 · $39k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- WAWestfield Area YMCAone grant, 2023 · $105k
- CSCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $100k
- SJST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $54k · revenue +18%
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.
CIC's purpose is to empower communities by meeting social service needs directly and through service referals, primarily in Union and Essex Counties. CIC has three programs: Strengthening Families, Child Welfare, and Re-entry from Prisons.
The westfield area ymca is a nonprofit human service organization dedicated to developing the full potential of every individual and family in the communities it serves through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
We are a family company that helps connect families and individuals with our friendly professionals. We have Coaching Services handled by our Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) in Supported Employment, Pre-Vocational Training, Community…
The organization was incorporated to oversee the operations of a 180 bed extended health care facility located in newark, new jersey. new community health care, inc. (the "organization") was incorporated in the state of new jersey in 1983…
The organization's mission is to offer healthcare services with compassion and dignity. the organization provides patients, their families and all in need, excellence in hospital and healthcare services and programs to enhance community…
This agency is dedicated to excellence in mental healthcare and has commitment to life- long support needed by individuals and their families to ensure that they achieve their full potential to improve the quality of their 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…
Services to the elderly and persons with disabilities in Southern New Jersey.
JFCS strengthens individuals and families by empowering people to care for themselves and others. This is accomplished through a wide range of high quality social services and programs designed to assist families with many of life's…
To empower men, fathers and families to achieve self-sufficiency. (see Schedule O)
My Fathers House, Inc. provides assessment, evaluation, intensive outpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, individual counseling, family counseling and aftercare group services. MFHs operation are located in Gloucester City, New Jersey.
We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Fanwood-Scotch Plains and the most unlike its peers is Catalyst Theater Company Productions 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 41 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 137 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 Boys & Girls Clubs of Union County Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FANWOOD-SCOTCH PLAINS ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANOAMERICANO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS 2 SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Somerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds CONTACT WE CARE 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 Hyde and Watson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Ej Grassmann Trust · Columbia Bank Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · The Summit Foundation · Union Foundation · Plainfield Foundation · 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 Westfield 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.
- Family Connections Inc — 83% of income from government
- Music for All Seasons Inc — 41% of income from government
- Literacy New Jersey Inc — 28% of income from government
- Womens Center for Entrepreneuship Corp — 23% of income from government
- Somerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 22% of income from government
- More Than Bootstraps — 16% of income from government
- New Jersey Festival Orchestra — 13% of income from government
- Ywca of Eastern Union County Inc — 8% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Center for Hope Hospice Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sage Eldercare — 1% of income from government
- Students 2 Science Inc — 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.