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United Way of Greater Mercer County

Uwgmc's mission is to unite people and resources to build a stronger, more connected community.we achieve this by designing and implementing sustainable, evidence-based programs with measurable outcomes.

$78k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$172kEducation$170kFood & Nutrition$146kCommunity Improvement$40kYouth Development$30kHealth$23kScience & Tech$12kPhilanthropy$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $61,240 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $78,213 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,973 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$6,240
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HISPA INC$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERCER COUNTY INC$10,000
WOMANSPACE INC$7,500
HOMEWORKS TRENTON INC$7,500
NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP$6,240
NJ BLACK WOMENS COLLECTIVE$5,000
PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL INC$5,000
SALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE$5,000
AFRICAN LINK INITIATIVE$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 4%NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 4%JOHN O WILSON HAMILTON NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $5k → 11%NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP: $8k → 4%NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP: $8k → 4%NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP: $6k → 4%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY: $8k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY: $6k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY: $5k → 11%UIH FAMILY PARTNERS: $38k → 11%UIH FAMILY PARTNERS: $19k → 11%ARM IN ARM: $8k → 11%ARM IN ARM: $6k → 11%RISE A COMMUNITY SERVICE PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 11%WOMANSPACE INC: $8k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$491k · 13 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
11

Total granted

$491k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+4%

Still filing today

85%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther

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

  • Embright Education
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +26%
  • UIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey
    3× · 2018–2020 · $56k · revenue +108%
  • N2
    NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • KI
    KIDSBRIDGE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -82%
  • HOMEFRONT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +62%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United Way of Mercer County

United Way of Mercer County champions the needs of children and families in our region.

Philanthropy
2
Mercer Street Friends Center

As a multi-faceted human services agency, mercer street friends (msf) dedicated to "nourishing minds and bodies; empowering families and communities," works to reduce hunger and food insecurity, close education gaps, improve the physical…

Human Services
3
Meals on Wheels in Hunterdon Inc

To assist the homebound elderly/disabled of Hunterdon, New Jersey to maintain their independence by enhancing their nutritional health, thereby avoiding unwanted institutionalization.

Human Services
4
The Food Trust

The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…

Food & Nutrition
5
Leaderup

Community Services and mentorship

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6
Communities in Cooperation Inc

CIC's purpose is to empower communities by meeting social service needs directly and through service referals, primarily in Union and Essex Counties. CIC has three programs: Strengthening Families, Child Welfare, and Re-entry from Prisons.

Human Services
7
Ironbound Community Corporation

Ironbound community corporation's mission is to engage and empower individuals, families and groups in realizing their aspirations and, together, work to create a just, vibrant and sustainable community.

—
8
Flemington Area Food Pantry Inc

Our mission is to promote the health and well-being of our Hunterdon County community. We offer choices of nutritious foods and essentials, foster resource connections, provide tailored programming, and respect the dignity of our neighbors…

Human Services
9
Princeton Healthcare System a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of princeton healthcare system is to provide exceptional, compassionate care to enhance the health and wellness of our patients, their families, and our community. princeton healthcare system provides inpatient and outpatient…

Health
10
YouthBuild Newark Inc

To harness the intelligence and positive energy of low-income young people to rebuild their community and their lives.

Youth Development
11
Pta New Jersey Congress of Parents and Teachers

Child advocacy

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12
Freehold Area Open Door Inc

Organization is a food pantry and resource and referral agency serving people in need. Emergency financial assistance for people facing eviction, utility shut-offs, transportation and prescription assistance. After school program offering…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Mercer County and the most unlike its peers is New Jersey Black Womens Collective a Nj Nonprofit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%11%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr15%18%35–55yr12%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%33%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr15%5%35–55yr12%36%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 33% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
11%
854/7,532

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.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NJ 2-1-1 FOR INFORMATION AND REFERRAL SERVICE — $57,500 · OtherNJ 2-1-1 FOR INFORMATION AND REFERRAL SE…MERCER STREET FRIENDS — $37,755 · OtherMERCER STREET FRIENDSMOUNT CARMEL GUILD OF TRENTON NJ — $22,957 · OtherMOUNT CARMEL GUILD OF TRENTON NJYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF TRENTON NJ — $20,000 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF TREN…Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County — $12,049 · OtherCatholic Youth Organization of Mercer Co…Individual grant recipient — $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKIDSBRIDGE INC — $11,050 · OtherHISPA INC — $10,000 · OtherROLLING HARVEST FOOD RESCUE — $10,000 · Other+5 more — $26,250 · Other+5 moreEmbright Education — $150,000 · EducationEmbright EducationHOMEFRONT INC — $8,114 · EducationHomeWorks Trenton — $7,500 · EducationTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SOUTH BRUNSWICK TOWNSHIP INC — $6,250 · Education+2 more — $10,000 · Education+2 moreUIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey — $56,250 · Human ServicesUIH Family Partners d/b/a The …NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $47,640 · Human ServicesNJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP A NEW JER…Jewish Family & Childrens Services of Greater Mercer County Inc — $24,786 · Human ServicesJewish Family & Childrens Serv…ARM IN ARM INC — $13,333 · Human ServicesARM IN ARM INCWOMANSPACE INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesEVERY CHILD VALUED A NJ NonProfit Corporation — $6,000 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human Services+2 moreTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc — $21,023 · Food & NutritionUNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY — $17,811 · PhilanthropyBoys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N — $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$219,561Education$181,864Human Services$165,509Food & Nutrition$21,023Philanthropy$17,811Youth Development$10,000Civil Rights$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEmbright Education — $150,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetUIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey — $56,250 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $47,640 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Family & Childrens Services of Greater Mercer County Inc — $24,786 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT CARMEL GUILD OF TRENTON NJ — $22,957 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc — $21,023 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF TRENTON NJ — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY — $17,811 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetARM IN ARM INC — $13,333 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Youth Organization of Mercer County — $12,049 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDSBRIDGE INC — $11,050 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHISPA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROLLING HARVEST FOOD RESCUE — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC — $8,114 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMANSPACE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHomeWorks Trenton — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERY CHILD VALUED A NJ NonProfit Corporation — $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERFAITH CAREGIVERS OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJOHN O WILSON HAMILTON TOWNSHIP NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION SERVICE CENTER DBA RISE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW JERSEY BLACK WOMENS COLLECTIVE A NJ NONPROFIT — $5,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetAFRICAN LINK INITIATIVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetPRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Princeton Area Commun…Citizens Philanthropi…Community Foundation …Pseg Foundation IncInvestors Foundation …Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Robert Wood Johns…Smith Family Foundati…The James Kerney Foun…FirstBank Charitable …Merancas Foundation I…Tenacre Foundation
Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ41× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Pseg Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Smith Family Foundation Inc · The James Kerney Foundation · FirstBank Charitable Foundation Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Tenacre 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 Greater Mercer 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Mount Carmel Guild of Trenton Nj — 100% of income from government
  • Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N — 52% of income from government
  • Hispa Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Interfaith Caregivers of Greater Mercer County Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater Mercer County — 8% of income from government
  • HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
  • Princeton Nursery School — 4% of income from government
  • Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $24k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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