· Public charity
United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/A United Way of Greater Newark
United way of greater newark exists to improve the lives of individuals, children and families within our footprint to strengthen the collective community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $769,586 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $810,538 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,952 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IRONBOUND COMMUNITY CORPORATION | $168,160 |
| BRICK | $123,571 |
| NEW COMMUNITY CORPORATION | $123,571 |
| URBAN LEAUGE OF ESSEX COUNTY | $123,571 |
| NJ CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND | $123,571 |
| SOUTH WARD ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE | $53,571 |
| PROGRAMS FOR PARENTS | $53,571 |
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 (FY20–25, $498k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $601k 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
- ICIronbound Community Corporation5× · 2020–2025 · $467k · revenue +31%
- NENewark Emergency Services for Families Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $155k · revenue +7%
- FHFOCUS HISPANIC CENTER FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC2× · 2020–2021 · $73k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1.6M
- COCITY OF NEWARKone grant, 2021 · $864k
- NCNewark Community Street Team Incone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -30%
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 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…
The mission of the newark partnership is to build upon newark's distinctive assets as an inclusive and innovative university community in which businesses, community institutions, city residents, and students work together toward the…
Invest newark facilitated small business loans and expanded an initiative to give small and minority businesses more access to credit, contracting opportunities and technical assistance to promote small minority business development.invest…
To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.
Daycare Services to Low Income Children
To work in partnership to make newark a better, safer place to work, live, learn, play, and do business.
The organization was incorporated to oversee the operations of a 180 bed extended health care facility located in newark, new jersey. new community health care, inc. (the "organization") was incorporated in the state of new jersey in 1983…
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.
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.
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ironbound Community Corporation and the most unlike its peers is South Ward Environmental Alliance. 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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 166 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds Ironbound Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds Newark Community Street Team Inc ↗
- Who funds Greater Newark Health Care Coalition ↗
- Who funds Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc ↗
- Who funds New Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds BUILDING RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENT CREATIVE KIDS ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds La Casa De Don Pedro Inc ↗
- Who funds FOCUS HISPANIC CENTER FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WARD ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PROGRAMS FOR PARENTS INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR FOOD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEWARK ENTERPRISES CORP ↗
- Who funds United Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE GEM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH WARD NURSERY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK ↗
- Who funds BESSIE GREEN COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CLINIC OF NEWARK ↗
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: Victoria Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Prudential Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Devils Youth Foundation Inc · Schumann Fund for New Jersey Inc · Nonprofit Finance Fund · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank 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 Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/A United Way of Greater Newark 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.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Programs for Parents Inc — 92% of income from government
- La Casa De Don Pedro Inc — 58% of income from government
- United Community Corporation — 45% of income from government
- Newark Community Street Team Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Gem Project Inc — 27% of income from government
- Urban League of Essex County — 20% of income from government
- New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc — 9% of income from government
- New Community Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Sarah Ward Nursery Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Arcdiocese of Newark — 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.