· Public charity
United Fund of Westfield NJ
Our mission is to help members of our local Westfield area communities who need care and social services.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $256k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $95,000 |
| Community Grants Various | $81,688 |
| Youth and Family Counseling | $46,000 |
| Caring Contact | $32,000 |
| After School Tutoring | $30,000 |
| Jewish Community Center | $27,000 |
| Mobile Meals | $25,000 |
| Jewish Family Services | $23,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| Literacy New Jersey | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Cerebral Palsy League of UC | $12,000 |
| Imagine | $11,000 |
| St Josephs Social Service | $7,500 |
| Boy Scouts of America | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- YFYouth & Family Counseling Service Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $272k · revenue +25%
- CWCONTACT WE CARE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $159k · revenue +284%
- CACourt Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $94k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- WLWe Love Local Distributions and expone grant, 2020 · $74k
- FBFood Bank Distributionsone grant, 2020 · $20k
- SRSyrian Refugee Family expenseone grant, 2020 · $2k
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 New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NJCASA) is driven by a mission to support all survivors of sexual violence, their loved ones, and the service providers who support them.
Promoting, assisting and supporting the sustainability and growth of casa programs in new jersey. casa programs promote the protection of abused and neglected children by using trained volunteers to advocate for these children in courts…
CONTACT of Mercer County NJ, Inc. provides compassionate, confidential telephone crisis intervention for those who are in emotional turmoil, thinking about suicide, experiencing loneliness, or facing the challenges of mental illness.…
Pathways Counseling Center, Inc. is a nonprofit, comprehensive, non-sectarian agency serving the counties of Northern New Jersey and surrounding communities. We provide a variety of mental health services to families, children and…
Securing justice for, protecting the rights of and rendering legal assistance and representation to indigent residents and non-residents of westchester county.
Promotes empowerment of low and middle income people through research, education, and training around public policy issues and direct counseling services.
CN Guidance & Counseling Services, a nonprofit organization, inspires and catalyzes recovery for people living with mental health and substance use conditions through innovative and person-centered integrated clinical treatment,…
To provide and promote free and affordable civil legal assistance, advocacy and justice for low-income people and communities in new jersey.
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
To identify children's needs through research, policy and legal analysis, to raise awareness of those needs through strategic communications, and to work with elected officials and other decision-makers to enact effective responses.
Advocate for foster care children in courts. Providing quality intervention and advocacy services for abused, abandoned, and neglected children.
To educate and train troubled youth to become productive citizens
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth & Family Counseling Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Westfield Day Care Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 30 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 Youth & Family Counseling Service Inc ↗
- Who funds CONTACT WE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Westfield Day Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE ASSIST 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: Ej Grassmann Trust · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Westfield Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 United Fund of Westfield NJ 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.
- Literacy New Jersey Inc — 28% of income from government
- Community Access Unlimited Inc — 15% of income from government
- Central Jersey Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Westfield Day Care Center 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.
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