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United Way of Central Jersey Inc

United Way of Central Jersey's leadership brings together resources for local disadvantaged families to ensure that all young children in our community attain better educational outcomes and a healthier, brighter and more successful future.

$252k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.0MHuman Services$937kCrime & Legal$402kEducation$212kHealth$151kFood & Nutrition$63kYouth Development$38kHousing & Shelter$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $96,122, the rows itemized in this filing. The $252,399 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $156,277 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$65,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLASSIS OF NEW BRUNSWICK CDCDIRE$65,000
NJ 2-1-1 Partnership$31,122
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 (FY17–24, $749k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%New Horizons of SW Florids: $10k → 13%Womancare (aka SPRUCE-RUN WOMANCARE ALLIANCE): $20k → 15%ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY: $6k → 16%COMMUNITY CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS: $29k → 8%New Life of NYC: $5k → 17%PRAHD: $28k → 8%COMMUNITY CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS: $28k → 8%COMMUNITY CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS: $28k → 8%PRAHD: $25k → 8%Roots & Wings: $20k → 4%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 8%CLASSIS OF NEW BRUNSWICK CDC: $95k → 8%Women Aware: $83k → 8%Women Aware: $79k → 8%CLASSIS OF NEW BRUNSWICK CDCDIRE: $65k → 8%CLASSIS OF NEW BRUNSWICK CDC: $65k → 8%CLASSIS OF NEW BRUNSWICK CDC: $60k → 8%CLASSIS OF NEW BRUNSWICK CDC: $30k → 8%CLASSIS OF NEW BRUNSWICK CDC: $30k → 8%CLASSIS OF NEW BRUNSWICK CDC: $25k → 8%Crossroads Theatre Company: $5k → 8%YMCA: $8k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 21 repeat orgs$467k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
26

Total granted

$2.3M
$467k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+23%

Still filing today

86%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCrime & LegalFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • Classis of New Brunswick Community DevelopmentCorp
    7× · 2018–2024 · $370k · revenue +186% · 29% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $301k · revenue +37%
  • CJ
    CENTRAL JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $204k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -1%
  • The United Way of Lee County Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue +137%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK
    one grant, 2017 · $39k · revenue -29%
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
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
2
United Way of Greater New Haven Inc

United way of greater new haven brings people and organizations together to create solutions to our region's most pressing challenges in the areas of education, health, and financial stability, grounded in racial and social justice. we…

Philanthropy
3
Nj 2-1-1 Partnership a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation

The organization's mission is to make the critical connection between individuals and families seeking health and/or human services and the organizations best able to meet their needs.

Human Services
4
United Way of Wayne County Inc

United way of wayne county is a community based organization, working in partnership with local non-profit organizations to strategically address many of our community's social issues. united way of wayne county invested in a number of…

Philanthropy
5
United Way of Ulster County Inc

United way of ulster county builds a coalition of compassion to address existing and emerging needs.

Philanthropy
6
United Way of Connecticut Inc

United way of connecticut is proud to be a trusted and vital resource for help and information about what the people of connecticut need. we respond to requests for food, housing, health care, child care, child development resources,…

Philanthropy
7
Urban League of Hudson County Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc

Norwescap is a private nonprofit corporation established in 1965, with a mission to create opportunities for low-income individuals and families throughout northwestern new jersey. our work positively impacts more than 30,000 people each…

Human Services
9
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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10
United Way of Washington County Maryland Inc

Through strategic leadership and investments, united way of washington county, md will impact community improvement and inspire collaboration to address critical needs in education, income and health.

Philanthropy
11
United Way of Central New York Inc

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.

Philanthropy
12
United Way of Northern New Yorkinc

To unite communities, resources, and partners to collaboratively address local needs, foster impactful programming, and enhance quality of life.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Mercer County; the most unlike its peers is Bradley Gardens Volunteer Fire Company Inc. 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

45 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. 45 of the 49 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/45
Grantees still filing
31/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $300,668 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITYUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $184,876 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY IN…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEYUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $99,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INCThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $51,000 · PhilanthropyThe United Way of Lee County IncUNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $39,954 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK: $39,087 · Philanthropy+7 more: $116,866 · Philanthropy+7 moreClassis of New Brunswick Community DevelopmentCorp: $370,000 · Human ServicesClassis of New Brunswick Comm…WOMEN AWARE INC: $162,150 · Human ServicesWOMEN AWARE INCCOMMUNITY CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS INC: $84,313 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CHILD CARE SOLUTION…Puerto Rican Association For Human Development Incorporated: $53,000 · Human ServicesPuerto Rican Association For …+8 more: $79,125 · Human Services+8 moreNJ 2-1-1 FOR INFORMATION AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $241,616 · OtherNJ 2-1-1 FOR INFORMATION AND …CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF METUCHEN: $164,200 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF…Jamesburg Board of Education: $62,783 · OtherJamesburg Board of EducationSouth County Day Care: $62,250 · OtherSouth County Day CareUNITED WAY OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES: $57,347 · OtherUNITED WAY OF MONMOUTH AND OC…HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $33,748 · OtherGREATER NEW BRUNSWICK DAY CARE COUNCIL INC: $33,400 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $32,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC: $30,000 · Other+5 more: $30,110 · OtherCENTRAL JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $204,125 · Crime & LegalCENTRAL J…COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC: $35,600 · Crime & LegalCOURT APP…NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR DISABILITIES INC: $86,090 · HealthANSHE EMETH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP OF CENTRAL NJ INC: $13,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $5,720 · HealthElijahs Promise Inc: $57,600 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Food & NutritionRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,400 · EducationBRADLEY GARDENS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $5,850 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$931,951Human Services$748,588Other$747,954Crime & Legal$239,725Health$104,810Food & Nutrition$62,600Education$15,400Public Safety & Disaster$5,850

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 budgetClassis of New Brunswick Community DevelopmentCorp: $370,000 over 7y, 29% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $300,668 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $204,125 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $184,876 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF METUCHEN: $164,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN AWARE INC: $162,150 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $99,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR DISABILITIES INC: $86,090 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS INC: $84,313 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetElijahs Promise Inc: $57,600 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES: $57,347 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPuerto Rican Association For Human Development Incorporated: $53,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $51,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $39,954 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK: $39,087 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC: $35,600 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $33,748 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER NEW BRUNSWICK DAY CARE COUNCIL INC: $33,400 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $32,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HUDSON COUNTY: $30,073 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY: $23,533 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY: $19,020 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANSHE EMETH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP OF CENTRAL NJ INC: $13,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HUNTERDON COUNTY: $9,657 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCE OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY: $7,600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYMCA of Metuchen: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRADLEY GARDENS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $5,850 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $5,720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $5,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY: $5,130 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RAHWAY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFISH HOSPITALITY PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCROSSROADS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW LIFE OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Columbia Bank Foundat…The Provident Bank Fo…Investors Foundation …Td Charitable Foundat…Pseg Foundation IncFirstenergy FoundationBristol-Myers Squibb …The Robert Wood Johns…United Way of Norther…United Way WorldwideCitizens Philanthropi…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ34.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc · United Way Worldwide · Citizens Philanthropic 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 United Way of Central Jersey Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Central Jersey Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Women Aware Inc: 43% of income from government
  • United Way of Hunterdon County: 10% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Vocational Service of Middlesex County Inc: 10% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater Mercer County: 8% of income from government
  • United Way of Passaic County Inc: 7% of income from government
  • United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
  • United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Central Jersey Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities Diocese of Metuchen: 3% of income from government
  • United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/a United Way of Greater Newark: 2% of income from government
  • Crossroads Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Elijahs Promise Inc: 1% of income from government
  • United Way Suncoast Inc: 1% of income from government
  • United Way of St Johns County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
16report 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.
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Find your warmest path to United Way of Central Jersey Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 49 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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