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United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc

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$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$571k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$1.6MEducation$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.2MCommunity Improvement$504kCivil Rights$376kCrime & Legal$258kHealth$128kHousing & Shelter$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $1,639,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,920,147 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,280,947 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $242k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $809k
  • $250k+1 grant · $571k
$44,040
Median grant
3
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GLASSBORO CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS: $229k → 8%DOWN THE BLOCK: $20k → 16%UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $20k → 15%PARSIPPANY CHILD DAY CARE CENTER: $140k → 4%THE LEARNING GATE ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 5%MERCY CENTER NJ: $12k → 6%GLASSBORO CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS: $200k → 8%CHILDREN ON THE GREEN: $26k → 4%THE LEARNING GATE ASSOCIATION INC: $13k → 5%GLASSBORO CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS: $160k → 8%PARSIPPANY CHILD DAY CARE CENTER: $115k → 4%MIDDLE EARTH: $9k → 5%ADULT DAY CARE CENTER OF SOMERSET CTY INC: $5k → 5%PARSIPPANY CHILD DAY CARE CENTER: $72k → 4%WIND OF THE SPIRIT: $21k → 4%NORWESCAP: $86k → 7%PARSIPPANY CHILD DAY CARE CENTER: $10k → 4%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND WARREN: $9k → 5%NORWESCAP: $84k → 7%CHILDREN ON THE GREEN: $13k → 4%NORWESCAP: $84k → 7%PARSIPPANY CHILD DAY CARE CENTER: $5k → 4%NORWESCAP: $82k → 7%NORWESCAP: $71k → 7%NORWESCAP: $50k → 7%NORWESCAP: $41k → 7%JEFFERSON CHILD CARE: $17k → 4%JEFFERSON CHILD CARE: $8k → 4%DOVER CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $16k → 4%DOVER CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $8k → 4%NJ 211: $5k → 4%DAWN: $5k → 4%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $5k → 4%MADISON AREA YMCA: $5k → 4%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 31 repeat orgs$513k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
32

Total granted

$5.0M
$324k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+25%

Still filing today

84%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHealthReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • NN
    NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $497k · revenue +46%
  • PC
    PARSIPPANY CHILD DAY CARE CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $343k · revenue +24%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF HUNTERDON COUNTY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $294k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • LS
    LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY INCgraduated
    3× · 2017–2019 · $27k · revenue +118%
  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST FOUNDATION OF THE GREATER NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • NS
    Newbridge Services Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $22k · revenue +4%
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
Home Care Options Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Care Plus Nj Inc

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.

Health
3
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
4
United Way of Hudson County

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.

Philanthropy
5
Caring Partners of Morris and Sussex Inc

To partner with children, families, and communities to help children in need to overcome significant social, emotional, and behavioral challenges.

Human Services
6
Carelink Community Support Services Nj

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.

Health
7
United Way of Bergen County

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…

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8
Center for Humanistic Change of Nj Inc

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…

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9
Rahway Day Care Center Inc

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…

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10
Urban League of Hudson County Inc

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.

Human Services
11
The Childrens Home Society of New Jersey

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…

Human Services
12
Circle of Care for Families and Children of Passaic County Inc

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,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

107 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/107
Grantees still filing
71/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUSY PLACE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $1,127,674 · OtherBUSY PLACE EARLY LEARNING CENTERNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION: $376,374 · OtherNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTIONLITTLE WONDERS CC CENTER: $166,139 · OtherLITTLE WONDERS CC CENTERCHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $94,161 · OtherHOPES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $87,058 · Other+27 more: $370,977 · Other+27 moreGLASSBORO CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS: $589,797 · Human ServicesGLASSBORO CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER…NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $496,683 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACT…PARSIPPANY CHILD DAY CARE CENTER INC: $342,799 · Human ServicesPARSIPPANY CHILD DAY CARE CENTER I…+16 more: $268,941 · Human Services+16 moreUNITED WAY OF HUNTERDON COUNTY: $293,650 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF HUNTERDON…UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL JERSEY INC: $276,480 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL J…UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY: $189,351 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER M…UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $155,647 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF PASSAIC C…UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK: $81,556 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ESSEX & W…VOLUNTEER CENTER OF BERGEN COUNTY INC: $74,884 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER CENTER OF BER…UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC: $40,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $40,561 · PhilanthropyCampaign for Working Families Inc: $230,517 · Crime & LegalHEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC: $57,250 · EducationMONTCLAIR EARLY CHILDHOOD CORP MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY PRE-K: $20,250 · EducationPRINCETON ELKS CHARITABLE TRUST INC: $16,382 · EducationCENTENARY UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationRaritan Valley Community College Foundation: $10,000 · EducationRYAN WOLFE KOSSAR FOUNDATION INC: $55,663 · HealthNewbridge Services Inc: $21,750 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING: $6,800 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC: $5,081 · HealthINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $21,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,222,383Human Services$1,698,220Philanthropy$1,152,129Crime & Legal$230,517Education$113,882Health$89,294Food & Nutrition$21,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLASSBORO CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS: $589,797 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $496,683 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION: $376,374 over 5y, 17% of budgetPARSIPPANY CHILD DAY CARE CENTER INC: $342,799 over 7y, 13% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HUNTERDON COUNTY: $293,650 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL JERSEY INC: $276,480 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCampaign for Working Families Inc: $230,517 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY: $189,351 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $155,647 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $94,161 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHOPES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $87,058 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK: $81,556 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF BERGEN COUNTY INC: $74,884 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetHEAD START COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF MORRIS COUNTY INC: $57,250 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetRYAN WOLFE KOSSAR FOUNDATION INC: $55,663 over 1y, 62% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCHILDREN ON THE GREEN INC: $38,990 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetMT OLIVE CHILD CARE & LEARNING CENTER: $38,020 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE LEARNING GATE AN ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE CENTERS INC: $37,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $28,729 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEL PRIMER PASO LTD: $27,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJEFFERSON CHILD CARE AND EDUCATION CENTER: $24,750 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetDOVER CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $24,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetNewbridge Services Inc: $21,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $21,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWIND OF THE SPIRIT IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER INC: $21,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: $20,750 over 4y, 43% of budgetMONTCLAIR EARLY CHILDHOOD CORP MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY PRE-K: $20,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDOWN THE BLOCK: $20,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCETON ELKS CHARITABLE TRUST INC: $16,382 over 1y, 96% of budgetJewish Family Service of Somerset Hunterdon & Warren Counties Inc: $15,720 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCertified Angels A NJ Nonprofit Corporation: $13,536 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY: $11,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMERCY CENTER CORPORATION: $11,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTENARY UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRaritan Valley Community College Foundation: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF NEW JERSEY: $9,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMiddle Earth: $9,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH: $8,811 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOME OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC FORMERLY INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF: $8,548 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAMARITAN INN INC: $8,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetRAINBOWS OF LEARNING INC: $8,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES: $7,859 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING: $6,800 over 3y, 0.2% 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.

Community Foundation …The Provident Bank Fo…Investors Foundation …Atlantic Health Syste…The Hyde and Watson F…Columbia Bank Foundat…Pseg Foundation IncFirstenergy FoundationCitizens Philanthropi…Bristol-Myers Squibb …John a and Margaret P…Catholic Human Servic…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ67.2× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Northern New Jersey Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
16report 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 72 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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