How much did UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY grant in FY2023?

UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY reported 2 grants totaling $41,426 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY based?

UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY is based in NJ.

UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY

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· Public charity

UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY

To improve people's lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities.

$41k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$12k

Largest

01What you fund

0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Human Services$152kEducation$91kFood & Nutrition$21kPhilanthropy$11kCrime & Legal$5kHealth$5kOther$155k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

aging disabiltiydisabiltiy donordonor designation

2020

summer hunger

2021

covideducationprimarysocialpotentialadultsbuild

2022

hunger foodfood insecurity

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$12,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

EAST WINDSOR TOWNSHIP$12,000
NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP$10,400

02The need

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 (FY18–23, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$345k · 11 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$345k

$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%

+20%

Still filing today

91%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHealthOther

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

CAMP FIRE NJ
2× · 2018–2019 · $85k · revenue +37%
UIH FAMILY PARTNERS
3× · 2018–2020 · $56k · revenue +147%
N2
NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP
4× · 2020–2023 · $41k · revenue +165%

Funded once

N2
NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP
one grant, 2019 · $18k
MS
MERCER STREET FRIENDS
one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue -32%
K
KIDSBRIDGE
one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -84%

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.

Meals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc

To assist participants in Mercer County, NJ in maintaining independence, dignity, health & well-being by providing comprehensive nutrician services and helping ease social isolation.

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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

United Way of Mercer County

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

Philanthropy

Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

We fight hunger and poverty in new jersey by assisting those in need and seeking long-term solutions. we engage, educate and empower all sectors of society in the battle (see sch o)

Food & Nutrition

Contact of Mercer County Nj Inc

CONTACT of Mercer County NJ, Inc. provides compassionate, confidential telephone crisis intervention for those who are in emotional turmoil, thinking about suicide, experiencing loneliness, or facing the challenges of mental illness.

Health

Arlington Food Assistance Center

To feed our neighbors in need by providing dignified access to nutritious supplemental groceries.

Food & Nutrition

Jewish Family Service of Somerset Hunterdon & Warren Counties Inc

JFS is a non-profit, non-sectarian social service agency whose mission is to preserve and strengthen the quality of individual, family and community life based on Jewish values.

Human Services

Trenton Health Team Inc

to improve community health and well-being in the community of greater Trenton, New Jersey

Health

Meeting Essential Needs With Dignityinc

MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITY (MEND) is a hunger relief network in Essex County, NJ, that works to advance health equity and influence systems-level change through collaborative, community-driven, responsive programming. Its mission…

Human Services

Meals on Wheels in Hunterdon Inc

Provide nutritious meals to the homebound senior citizens and disabled of Hunterdon County, New Jersey to maintain and improve their health. To operate congregate centers that serve independent senior citizens in Hunterdon

Human Services

Meals On Wheels of Salem County Inc

he mission of Meals on Wheels of Salem County (MOW) is to provide hot nutritious meals to disabled and persons who are over the age of 60 and unable to provide for themselves, prepare their own meals and make daily purchases of foods and…

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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nj 2-1-1 Partnership and the most unlike its peers is The Houston Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

16/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$154,561Human Services$151,769Education$91,250Food & Nutrition$21,023Philanthropy$11,144Crime & Legal$5,000Health$5,000

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.

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 Community Foundation IncNJ34.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Educational Testing Service · The Provident Bank Foundation · The James Kerney Foundation · Catholic Human Services Foundation · The Wawa Foundation 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 organisation 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24

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9get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CAMP FIRE NJ.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 210646544 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CAMP FIRE NJ, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of Greater Mercer County?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Greater Mercer County through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Greater Mercer County?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Greater Mercer County?

More from the funding graph