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United Way of Greater Union County % Julienne Cherry
The mission of united way greater union county is to improve lives and build strong communities by uniting individuals and organizations with the will, passion, expertise, and resources needed to solve problems.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $215,354 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,376,888 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,161,534 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $174k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GATEWAY FAMILY YMCA | $31,480 |
| SALVATION ARMY ELIZABETH CORPS | $26,632 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION | $24,114 |
| ARC OF UNION COUNTY | $20,888 |
| RAHWAY COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION | $19,848 |
| KING'S DAUGHTERS DAY SCHOOL INC | $15,926 |
| SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER | $13,907 |
| RAHWAY DAY CARE CENTER | $11,178 |
| COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE | $10,254 |
| YWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY | $8,307 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL NJ | $8,096 |
| IN ROADS TO OPPORTUNITY | $8,096 |
| CEREBRAL PALSY LEAGUE OF UNION COUNTY | $5,826 |
| UNITED FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SOCIETY INC | $5,470 |
| SALVATION ARMY PLAINFIELD | $5,332 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
THE PARTNERSHIP FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $805k · revenue +131%- FUFONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO5× · 2017–2022 · $155k · revenue +31%
- RCRAHWAY COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATIO4× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +199%
Funded once
- PPROCEED2× · 2017–2018 · $110k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $77k · revenue -83%
- JPJefferson Park Ministries Incgraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $19k · revenue +370%
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.
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To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.
To improve lives by leveraging partnerships in our community to advance the common good through education access, economic mobility, and healthy living.
To provide the residents of our community strong support, community advocacy and holisticservices designed to nurture and strengthen the inner person to promote self-efficiency andfamily empowerment.
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 American Heart Association Inc. 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 61 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 57 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.
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- Who funds FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO ↗
- Who funds RAHWAY COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATIO ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Communities in Cooperation Inc ↗
- Who funds NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLAINFIELD CITY UNION OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS KING'S DAUGHTERS DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF UNION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON-NEWTON COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds JCC of Central New Jersey ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTION FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Rahway Day Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Union County Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
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- Who funds SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds YM-YWHA OF UNION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CRANFORD FAMILY CARE ↗
- Who funds Jefferson Park Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Ej Grassmann Trust · Plainfield Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Turrell Fund · The Provident Bank Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · The Westfield 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 Union County % Julienne Cherry 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.
- Jefferson Park Ministries Inc — 26% of income from government
- Urban League of Union County — 22% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- United Way of Greater Mercer County — 8% of income from government
- Ywca of Eastern Union County Inc — 8% of income from government
- Neighborhood House Association — 6% of income from government
- Rahway Day Care Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey Inc — 4% of income from government
- Freedom House Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj — 1% of income from government
- Ym-Ywha of Union County — 1% of income from government
- Cerebral Palsy League Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.
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