· Public charity
United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $1,639,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,920,147 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,280,947 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $242k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $809k
- $250k+1 grant · $571k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUSY PLACE EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $571,383 |
| GLASSBORO CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS | $200,292 |
| CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW JERSEY | $101,830 |
| PARSIPPANY CHILD DAY CARE CENTER | $71,708 |
| UNITED WAY OF HUNTERDON COUNTY | $71,250 |
| NORWESCAP | $70,758 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL JERSEY INC | $70,498 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR WORKING FAMILIES | $62,664 |
| RYAN WOLFE KOSSAR FOUNDATION | $55,663 |
| UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY | $53,772 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY INC | $50,916 |
| LITTLE WONDERS CC CENTER | $44,040 |
| UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK | $27,416 |
| VOLUNTEER CENTER OF BERGEN COUNTY INC | $23,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 2% 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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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
- NNNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $497k · revenue +46%
- PCPARSIPPANY CHILD DAY CARE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $343k · revenue +24%
- UWUNITED WAY OF HUNTERDON COUNTY5× · 2021–2025 · $294k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- LSLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY INCgraduated3× · 2017–2019 · $27k · revenue +118%
- UMUNITED METHODIST FOUNDATION OF THE GREATER NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE INCone grant, 2023 · $25k
- NSNewbridge Services Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $22k · revenue +4%
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.
To serve the expanding and evolving in-home needs of residents of northern nj by delivering a continuum of care for clients and families through the services of a highly trained caring and compassionate workforce.
This agency is dedicated to excellence in mental healthcare and has commitment to life- long support needed by individuals and their families to ensure that they achieve their full potential to improve the quality of their lives.
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…
To partner with children, families, and communities to help children in need to overcome significant social, emotional, and behavioral challenges.
The united way of hudson county is a non-profit community resource with the sole mission to do whatever we can to help the poor, the sick, the elderly, the disabled and the homeless people of hudson county.
Carelink community support services of new jersey's mission is to assist adult citizens of nj living with psychiatric disability in acquiring the tools necessary to live health and fulfilling lives.
The rahway day care center provides full time and part time day care where children throughout the full year can develop socially, emotionally, physically, and intellectually in an affordable day care run by dedicated and professional…
To assist with the integration of individuals with developmental disabilities into society. to educate the public regarding every individual's right and need for community integration. to promote, establish, and operate community based…
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.
The mission of bergen county's united way is to connect community members in need with resources through nj211, to stabilize families on the verge of losing their housing through the compassion fund and to develop affordable housing for…
The mission of the children's home society of new jersey is to save children's lives and build healthy families. chs provides at-risk children and their families with a range of culturally sensitive social services that strengthen, support…
The mission of circle of care is to provide strength-based care management services for youth and families in passaic county experiencing emotional, behavioral, developmental and substance use challenges. through team collaboration,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Down the Block. 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 46 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
107 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.
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.
- Who funds GLASSBORO CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION ↗
- Who funds PARSIPPANY CHILD DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HUNTERDON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Campaign for Working Families Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF BERGEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RYAN WOLFE KOSSAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN ON THE GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds MT OLIVE CHILD CARE & LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING GATE AN ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds EL PRIMER PASO LTD ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON CHILD CARE AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOVER CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Newbridge Services Inc ↗
- Who funds JERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WIND OF THE SPIRIT IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR EARLY CHILDHOOD CORP MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY PRE-K ↗
- Who funds DOWN THE BLOCK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON ELKS CHARITABLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service of Somerset Hunterdon & Warren Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds Certified Angels A NJ Nonprofit Corporation ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Provident Bank Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Atlantic Health System Inc Group Return · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Catholic Human Services 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 Northern New Jersey Inc 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.
- Child and Family Resources Inc — 86% of income from government
- Head Start Community Program of Morris County Inc — 61% of income from government
- Hopes Community Action Partnership — 47% of income from government
- Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
- Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc — 38% of income from government
- New Jersey Citizen Action — 37% of income from government
- Middle Earth — 30% of income from government
- Choose New Jersey Inc — 25% of income from government
- Newbridge Services Inc — 24% of income from government
- Mercy Center Corporation — 21% of income from government
- El Primer Paso Ltd — 13% of income from government
- United Way of Hunterdon County — 10% of income from government
- United Way of Greater Mercer County — 8% of income from government
- United Way of Passaic County Inc — 7% of income from government
- Homeless Solutions Inc — 6% of income from government
- Dover Child Care Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Center for Prevention & Counseling — 4% of income from government
- Volunteer Center of Bergen County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Dawn Center for Independent Living Inc — 3% of income from government
- Legal Services of Northwest Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Central Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Diocese of Metuchen — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/a United Way of Greater Newark — 2% of income from government
- Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc — 2% of income from government
- Children On the Green Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris Inc — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj — 1% of income from government
- Samaritan Inn 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.