How much does Union Foundation give?

Union Foundation reported 67 itemized grants totaling $796,700, out of $936,525 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 73 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.

What does Union Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (13%), Education (11%), Health (11%).

Who are Union Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Trinitas Foundation ($170k), Americas Grow-A-Row ($126k), Paper Mill Playhouse ($100k).

Does Union Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Union Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Union Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ej Grassmann Trust, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Investors Foundation Inc.

Where is Union Foundation based?

Union Foundation is based in NJ.

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Union Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$937k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 67
Itemized grants FY2024: 67
Organizations funded FY2023: 16%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $797k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $45,000
Organizations funded a year: 67 to 73; FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $18M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Union Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	67	$797k	0%
FY2023	67	$797k	16%
FY2022	70	$787k	29%
FY2021	73	$829k	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$673kEducation$606kHealth$568kHuman Services$421kAnimals$233kYouth Development$205kEnvironment$158kFood & Nutrition$131kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Trinitas Foundation	$170,000	4	2%
Americas Grow-A-Row	$126,000	4	1%
Paper Mill Playhouse	$100,000	4	0%
George Street Playhouseinc	$86,500	4	1%
St Benedicts Preparatory School Inc	$80,000	4	n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Union County Inc	$75,000	4	1%
New Jersey Ballet Company Inc	$72,500	4	2%
The Koinonia Academy	$59,000	4	1%
The Raptor Trust	$57,000	4	1%
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey	$55,500	4	1%

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All grantees of Union Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Trinitas Foundation	$170,000	4	2%
Americas Grow-A-Row	$126,000	4	1%
Paper Mill Playhouse	$100,000	4	0%
George Street Playhouseinc	$86,500	4	1%
St Benedicts Preparatory School Inc	$80,000	4	n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Union County Inc	$75,000	4	1%
New Jersey Ballet Company Inc	$72,500	4	2%
The Koinonia Academy	$59,000	4	1%
The Raptor Trust	$57,000	4	1%
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey	$55,500	4	1%
Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj	$55,000	4	0%
JCC of Central New Jersey	$52,500	4	0%
South Orange Performing Arts Centerinc	$51,000	4	1%
Children's Specialized Hospital Foundation Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Center for Hope Hospice Inc	$45,000	3	0%
St Joseph Social Service Center	$42,600	3	1%
The Historical Society Elizabeth NJ	$42,500	3	18%
The Morris Museum Inc	$40,800	4	1%
Midland Foundation	$40,000	4	2%
Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge	$40,000	4	1%
New Jersey Conservation Foundation	$40,000	4	0%
United Way of Greater Union County % Julienne Cherry	$40,000	3	0%
Cheshire Home Inc	$40,000	4	0%
Sage Eldercare	$37,500	4	0%
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey	$34,200	4	0%
Joseph H Firth Youth Center	$33,300	4	1%
Zoological Society of New Jersey Inc	$32,500	3	0%
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra	$32,000	4	0%
YWCA of Eastern Union County Inc	$32,000	2	0%
Community Hope Inc	$30,000	3	0%
The Land Conservancy of New Jersey	$30,000	4	0%
The Newark Museum Association	$30,000	3	0%
Summit Speech School	$30,000	2	0%
Raritan Headwaters Association	$29,700	4	1%
The Center for Great Expectations Inc	$28,500	4	0%
Our House Foundation Inc	$27,500	3	1%
YMCA Camp Ralph S Mason	$27,500	3	0%
The Wardlaw-Hartridge School	$25,000	2	0%
Pg Chambers School	$21,900	4	0%
Homesharing Inc	$21,600	3	3%
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Inc	$21,000	4	0%
Planned Parenthood of Northern Central and Southern New Jersey Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services	$20,000	1	0%
Princeton-Blairstown Center Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Westfield Cooperative Nursery School	$20,000	2	1%
Far Brook School	$20,000	2	0%
Liberty Hall Museum Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Mt Pleasant Animal Shelter Inc	$20,000	2	1%
The Matheny School and Hospital Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Music Will Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Greenwood Gardens	$18,300	3	0%
180 Turning Lives Around	$16,500	4	0%
Candid	$16,000	4	0%
Save Ellis Island Inc	$15,000	3	1%
Good Grief Inc	$12,600	3	0%
Council on Foundations Inc	$12,000	4	0%
Hope	$11,100	4	n/a
St Vincents Academy	$10,000	1	n/a
Covenant House New Jersey Inc	$10,000	1	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$10,000	2	0%
Associated Humane Societies Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Arc of Union County Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The State Theatre Regional Arts Center at New Brunswick Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Woodlands Wildlife Refuge Inc	$10,000	2	1%
New Jersey Theatre Alliance Inc	$10,000	2	1%
Josephine's Place Inc	$10,000	1	2%
The Institute of Music for Children Inc	$9,500	1	0%
New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation	$8,000	1	0%
New Jersey Audubon Society	$8,000	1	0%
Roots & Wings Foundation	$7,500	1	1%
Rahway Community Action Organizatio	$7,500	1	0%
Community Access Unlimited Inc	$6,500	1	0%
The Seeing Eye Inc	$6,000	1	0%
Union County Arts Center Inc	$5,500	1	0%
Council of New Jersey Grantmakers Inc	$5,215	3	0%
Lacordaire Academy	$5,000	1	n/a
Bloomfield College of Montclair State University Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Saint Peter's University	$5,000	1	0%
Rahway Food for Friends Inc a Nj Nonprofit Corp	$4,700	1	3%
Youth & Family Counseling Service Inc	$3,000	1	1%
Imagine a Center for Coping With Loss	$3,000	1	0%
Vivid Stage Inc	$1,400	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($762k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Union Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 78.

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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.

Ej Grassmann TrustNJ140.7× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ej Grassmann Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · George a Ohl Jr Trust · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Turrell Fund

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.

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About Union Foundation

How much does Union Foundation give?: Union Foundation reported 67 itemized grants totaling $796,700, out of $936,525 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 73 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Union Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (13%), Education (11%), Health (11%).
Who are Union Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Trinitas Foundation ($170k), Americas Grow-A-Row ($126k), Paper Mill Playhouse ($100k).
Does Union Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Union Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Union Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ej Grassmann Trust, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Investors Foundation Inc.
Where is Union Foundation based?: Union Foundation is based in NJ.