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Tw Sidney J Harris

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.

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$270kHuman Services$194kCommunity Improvement$40kYouth Development$15kCrime & Legal$10kRecreation & Sports$10kEmployment$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FAMILY VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF$10,000
LEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES INC$10,000
ANSHE EMETH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$10,000
THE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDRENS SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FDN$10,000
HARKALS INC$5,000
LITTLE SERVANT SISTERS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL$5,000
WOMEN AWARE INC$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%LEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES INC: $10k → 7%HARKALS INC: $5k → 5%WOMEN AWARE INC: $4k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MIDDLESEX CNT: $25k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MIDDLESEX CNT: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$425k · 8 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$425k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
0%

Still filing today

50%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LS
    Little Servant Sisters
    5× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +77%
  • TR
    THE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +156%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NJ
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Specialized Hospital

To be the preeminent provider of specialized healthcare services for infants, children and young adults. the organization provides medically necessary pediatric healthcare services to all children in a non-discriminatory manner regardless…

Health
2
Hartwyck West Nursing Home Inc

To provide high quality care & management services for people in need of long term care, subacute care, adult day care, huntington's disease, head injury reprogramming, respiratory care, transitional living & assisted living.

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3
Hartwyck At Jfk Inc

To provide high quality care & management services for people in need of long

Health
4
Jersey City Medical Center

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…

Health
5
Hmh Hospitals Corporation

The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…

Health
6
Jfk Medical Associates Pa

Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.

Health
7
Hackensack Specialty Care Associates Pc

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

Health
8
Kids Home Care Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…

Health
9
Humc Medical Observation Pa

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

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10
Clara Maass Medical Center

Cmmc is committed to providing exceptional services and quality to the communities they serve through their passion for excellence and perfection. cmmc prides itself on commitment and compassion, leadership and loyalty, accountability,…

Health
11
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway

To deliver safe, quality, cost effective healthcare services, providing access and value to the community through a unified effort that meets individual needs with dignity and respect. through its dynamic, strategic partnerships, robert…

Health
12
Jfk Assisted Living Inc

To provide high quality & compassionate healthcare services to its

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hackensack Meridian Health Inc; the most unlike its peers is Little Servant Sisters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY & VOCATIONAL SERVICE: $120,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & VOCATIONAL SERVICELittle Servant Sisters: $65,000 · OtherLittle Servant SistersTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $65,000 · OtherTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITALANSHE EMETH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $40,000 · OtherANSHE EMETH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPTHE INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER: $30,000 · OtherTHE INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCERJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 · OtherJOHN F KENNEDY MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 · Other+6 more: $50,000 · Other+6 moreTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthTHE RWJ UNIVERSI…Hackensack Meridian Health Inc: $30,000 · HealthHackensack Merid…CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S SPECI…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COM…LEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLEGACY TRE…HARK-ALS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHARK-ALS I…WOMEN AWARE INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN AWAR…MIDDLESEX COUNTY RECREATIONAL COUNCIL KIDDIE KEEP WELL CAMP: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCHILD WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$410,000Health$80,000Human Services$54,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Youth Development$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLittle Servant Sisters: $65,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHackensack Meridian Health Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX COUNTY RECREATIONAL COUNCIL KIDDIE KEEP WELL CAMP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN AWARE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Little Servant Sisters ↗
  • Who funds THE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Hackensack Meridian Health Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLESEX COUNTY RECREATIONAL COUNCIL KIDDIE KEEP WELL CAMP ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARK-ALS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN AWARE INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Investors Foundation IncNJ19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Investors Foundation Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Magyarbank Charitable Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tw Sidney J Harris funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tw Sidney J Harris. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Women Aware Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Little Servant Sisters: 8% of income from government
  • Legacy Treatment Services Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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