· Private foundation
Ucsb Charitable Foundation Inc
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 $10k21 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELIZABETH COALITION TO HOUSE THE HOMELESS | $12,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY | $10,000 |
| THE HOUSE OF MERCY INC | $7,500 |
| ST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER INC | $7,500 |
| TRINITAS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED INC | $5,000 |
| OVERLOOK MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HMH-PLAINFIELD HEALTH CONNECTION | $5,000 |
| KEAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF UNION COUNTY | $5,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY | $5,000 |
| SETON HALL MARKET RESEARCH CENTER | $3,000 |
| UNION COUNTY FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE COALITION | $3,000 |
| PATRIOTS' PATH COUNCIL BSA | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 14 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- ECElizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless Inc6× · 2019–2025 · $57k · revenue +95%
- SJST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER4× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +60%
UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY4× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- UCUNION COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -24%
- EDElizabeth Development Company of New Jerseygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +79%
- NNNAN NEWARK TECH WORLDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +225%
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.
The urban league's mission is to empower residents and improve the quality of life in urban communities by working in partnership with community groups, government and corporate sponsors.
The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…
Njcu is a membership organization of low and moderate income families focusing on public education, living wage jobs, worker rights, foreclosures and community justice issues through community outreach and education programs & works with…
New jersey institute for social justice (the institute), a public charity, is a newark-based urban research and advocacy organization dedicated to the advancement of new jersey's urban areas and residents.
United in common organization women in new jersey professionally engaged in business, formulate, mantain, and promote mutual interest of women business owners, provide support for women in business through education
To work in partnership to make newark a better, safer place to work, live, learn, play, and do business.
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 mission of the center for food action is to "prevent hunger and homelessness and improve the lives of individuals and families living in poverty."
To perform statewide coordinating functions for New Jerseys community colleges and develop community-college led partnerships and solutions to expand educational and economic opportunity.
The organizations mission is to encourage and support community development, combat community deterioration, promote community stability, and assist communities throughout essex county, new jersey in the planning, and development of…
New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.
To help the community to work through personal outreach services, workshops to prepare job seekers, intensive services, for qualified customers to administer job training programs for youths and unskilled adults who are economically…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Northern New Jersey and the most unlike its peers is Hanson Park Conservancy. 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 40 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 75 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 TRINITAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Union County Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds UNION COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF UNION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services ↗
- Who funds Elizabeth Development Company of New Jersey ↗
- Who funds NAN NEWARK TECH WORLD ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LOAN FUND OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEWARK ENTERPRISES CORP ↗
- Who funds Family and Children's Services Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOC Foundation ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION ↗
- Who funds SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF MUSIC FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds KEAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPLASHES OF HOPE 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: Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · Pseg Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Union Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Elizabethtown Healthcare Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Harold B & Dorothy a Snyder 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 Ucsb Charitable Foundation 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.
- Family and Children's Services Inc — 78% of income from government
- Elizabeth Development Company of New Jersey — 71% of income from government
- Hopes Community Action Partnership — 47% of income from government
- Union County Economic Development Corp — 47% of income from government
- Ywca Northern New Jersey — 42% of income from government
- New Jersey Citizen Action — 37% of income from government
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
- Urban League of Union County — 22% of income from government
- Nan Newark Tech World — 19% of income from government
- Community Access Unlimited Inc — 15% of income from government
- New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc — 9% of income from government
- Groundwork Elizabeth Inc — 9% of income from government
- Ywca of Eastern Union County Inc — 8% of income from government
- Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services — 3% of income from government
- Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries — 2% of income from government
- The Institute of Music for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Saint Peter's University — 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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