Skip to content
United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/A United Way of Greater Newark at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$811k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$168k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$2.3MCommunity Improvement$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.4MHuman Services$764kHealth$358kEducation$311kCrime & Legal$260kPublic Benefit$124kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $769,586, the rows itemized in this filing. The $810,538 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,952 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.
$123,571
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FOCUS HISPANIC CENTER FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $10k → 10%LA CASA DE DON PEDRO: $50k → 16%LA CASA DE DON PEDRO: $35k → 16%URBAN LEAUGE OF ESSEX COUNTY: $124k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEWARK: $25k → 16%UNITED COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $27k → 16%NEWARK EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR FAMILIES INC: $80k → 16%NEWARK EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR FAMILIES INC: $75k → 16%FOCUS HISPANIC CENTER FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $63k → 16%YMCA OF NEWARK: $10k → 16%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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 7 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
152

Total granted

$1.0M
$5.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+31%

Still filing today

57%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $601k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IC
    Ironbound Community Corporation
    5× · 2020–2025 · $467k · revenue +31%
  • NE
    Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $155k · revenue +7%
  • FH
    FOCUS HISPANIC CENTER FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $73k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1.6M
  • CO
    CITY OF NEWARK
    one grant, 2021 · $864k
  • NC
    Newark Community Street Team Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -30%
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
Newark Community Health Centers Inc

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…

Health
2
New Jersey Citizen Action

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.

—
3
Invest Newark a New Jersey Nonprofit Corp

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…

Community Improvement
4
The Newark Partnership Inc

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…

Public Benefit
5
New Community Health Care Inc

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…

Health
6
Newark Day Center Inc

Daycare Services to Low Income Children

—
7
New Jersey Communities United

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…

Community Improvement
8
Newark Alliance Inc

To work in partnership to make newark a better, safer place to work, live, learn, play, and do business.

Philanthropy
9
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
10
Newark Educators Community Charter School

NECCS is an engaging learning community. NECCS supports the holistic growth of children and educators. It is a place where culture, community, and professional knowledge come together. NECCS is committed to 1 Create a safe leanring…

Education
11
New Jersey Policy Perspective

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.

Arts & Culture
12
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ironbound Community Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 166 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,564,755 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY OF NEWARK: $863,569 · OtherCITY OF NEWARKIronbound Community Corporation: $467,160 · OtherIronbound Community CorporationSHOP RITE OF NEWARK: $200,550 · OtherSAVERLIFE: $195,000 · Other+147 more: $2,191,935 · Other+147 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $500,000 · PhilanthropyBESSIE GREEN COMMUNITY INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyNewark Emergency Services for Families Inc: $155,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY: $123,571 · Human ServicesLa Casa De Don Pedro Inc: $85,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS HISPANIC CENTER FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $73,000 · Human ServicesUnited Community Corporation: $26,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesGreater Newark Health Care Coalition: $250,000 · HealthYOUTH DEVELOPMENT CLINIC OF NEWARK: $12,123 · HealthNewark Community Street Team Inc: $250,267 · Crime & LegalNew Community Corporation: $123,571 · Housing & ShelterBUILDING RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENT CREATIVE KIDS: $123,571 · Education
Other$5,482,969Philanthropy$520,000Human Services$498,071Health$262,123Crime & Legal$250,267Housing & Shelter$123,571Education$123,571

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation: $467,160 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetNewark Community Street Team Inc: $250,267 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGreater Newark Health Care Coalition: $250,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetNewark Emergency Services for Families Inc: $155,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetBUILDING RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENT CREATIVE KIDS: $123,571 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLa Casa De Don Pedro Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOCUS HISPANIC CENTER FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $73,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPROGRAMS FOR PARENTS INC: $53,571 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER NEWARK ENTERPRISES CORP: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Community Corporation: $26,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARAH WARD NURSERY CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GEM PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetBESSIE GREEN COMMUNITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT CLINIC OF NEWARK: $12,123 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWARK & VICINITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE INC: $9,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

Victoria Foundation I…Community Foundation …The Prudential Founda…Columbia Bank Foundat…Community Food Bank O…The Healthcare Founda…The Hyde and Watson F…Devils Youth Foundati…Schumann Fund for New…Nonprofit Finance FundGeraldine R Dodge Fou…The Provident Bank Fo…
Victoria Foundation IncNJ41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Essex & West Hudson D/B/A United Way of Greater Newark funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/A United Way of Greater Newark. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.

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 166 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/A United Way of Greater Newark’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home