· Public charity
United Way of Bergen County
The mission of bergen county's united way is to connect community members in need with resources through nj211, to stabilize families on the verge of losing their housing through the compassion fund and to develop affordable housing for seniors, veterans, families and adults with developmental disabilities.
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.
The 377 grants below total $6,953,857 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,462,411 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,508,554 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k200 grants · $1.4M
- $10k–50k166 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $905k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KPMG US FOUNDATION INC | $1,847,204 |
| FIRST BOOK | $150,028 |
| MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC | $138,272 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $123,918 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC | $120,956 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $113,789 |
| UNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND | $54,970 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $51,995 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC | $50,752 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $50,244 |
| JAPANESE AMERICAN SERVICE COMMITTEE | $50,000 |
| EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC | $48,274 |
| THE WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER | $47,574 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $43,770 |
| THE MOODY CHURCH | $43,124 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
747 repeat relationships — 286 still active in FY2025, 461 since wound down; 80 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $724k 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
- KUKPMG US FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +114%
United Way of Greater Houston9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +5%
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $3.0M · revenue -15%
- OCOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Incone grant, 2022 · $107k · revenue +20%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORKone grant, 2020 · $72k
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.
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The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Mt Lebanon High School Crew. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
1084 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1084 of the 1,410 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 KPMG US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA 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: Kpmg US Foundation Inc · America's Charities · Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Ernst & Young Foundation · Rsm US Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc · Siemer Institute · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas 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 United Way of Bergen County 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bergen Family Center — 25% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Central Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/a United Way of Greater Newark — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Holy Name Medical Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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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