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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 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 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $61,240, the rows itemized in this filing. The $78,213 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,973 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

  • 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
SALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE$5,000
AFRICAN LINK INITIATIVE$5,000
PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL INC$5,000
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 (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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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 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
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 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 32 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherROLLING HARVEST FOOD RESCUE: $10,000 · OtherHISPA INC: $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 DevelopmentINTERFAITH CAREGIVERS OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$219,561Education$181,864Human Services$165,509Food & Nutrition$21,023Philanthropy$17,811Youth Development$10,000Health$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROLLING HARVEST FOOD RESCUE: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHISPA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 budgetINTERFAITH CAREGIVERS OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEW JERSEY BLACK WOMENS COLLECTIVE A NJ NONPROFIT: $5,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAFRICAN LINK INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.6% 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 budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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

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 Greater Mercer County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Greater Mercer County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
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 32 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.

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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