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Valley National Bancorp Educational Foundation Inc at a glance

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Valley National Bancorp Educational Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$106k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORRIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$25,000
LEAD CHARTER SCHOOL$20,000
RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$11,010
HILLSBOROUGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
PATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY$10,000
PASSAIC BOARD OF EDUCATION$10,000
Foundation at NJIT$10,000
CARE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
02

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HILLSBOROUGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%CARE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10k → 15%MORRIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 4%RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $11k → 7%PASSAIC BOARD OF EDUCATION: $10k → 12%LEAD CHARTER SCHOOL: $20k → 16%PATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 7%Foundation at NJIT: $10k → 16%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 field
03the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 8 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
1/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORRIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationMORRIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCLEAD CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationLEAD CHARTER SCHOOL INCRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $11,010 · EducationRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATIONPATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: $10,000 · EducationPATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYHillsborough Education Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EducationHillsborough Education Foundation IncFOUNDATION AT NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $10,000 · EducationFOUNDATION AT NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYCARE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationCARE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INCPassaic Board of Education: $10,000 · OtherPassaic Bo…
Education$96,010Other$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMORRIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLEAD CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $11,010 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillsborough Education Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION AT NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 …Verizon FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Valley National Bancorp Educational Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valley National Bancorp Educational Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Lead Charter School Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Ramapo College Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Valley National Bancorp Educational Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 8 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-PF 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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