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· Private foundation

Walter and Louise Sutcliffe 1990 Fd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$944kHealth$341k
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY$10,000
ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY$10,000
THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC$10,000
SAINT ELIZABETH UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION I$10,000
THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC$10,000
CALDWELL UNIVERSITY$10,000
FELICIAN UNIVERSITY$10,000
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION IN$10,000
MIDDLESEX COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
CHRISTIAN HEALTH CARE CENTER$10,000
COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
UNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KENNEDY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 22%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $20k → 17%COLLEGE OF SAINT ELIZABETH: $12k → 4%THE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION I: $15k → 6%VIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 7%FELICIAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%UNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15k → 11%KENNEDY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 12%PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 12%SAINT PETERS UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%CURESEARCH FOR CHILDRENS CANCER: $10k → 8%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $20k → 17%SAINT ELIZABETH UNIVERSITY: $10k → 4%THE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION I: $10k → 6%VIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%FELICIAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%MIDDLESEX COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 8%UNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12k → 11%PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND: $10k → 12%SAINT PETERS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENT I: $10k → 4%FELICIAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%MIDDLESEX COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 8%UNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 11%PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT: $10k → 12%SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 17%OVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY: $12k → 14%FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 7%FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 7%BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE & SEMINARY: $15k → 16%BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE & SEMINARY: $12k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 26 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
10

Total granted

$1.1M
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-20%

Still filing today

85%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AC
    ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI
    6× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +139%
  • SH
    SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +44%
  • GC
    GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
  • TW
    THE WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • CF
    CURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
3
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is William Paterson University of New Jersey Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fairleigh Dickinson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr11%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr11%51%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
12%
4,217/34,864

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Fairleigh Dickinson University — $72,000 · EducationFairleigh Dickinson UniversityATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI — $67,000 · EducationATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY — $67,000 · EducationGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITYFELICIAN UNIVERSITY — $62,000 · EducationFELICIAN UNIVERSITYSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY — $55,000 · EducationSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITYSaint Elizabeth University — $52,000 · EducationSaint Elizabeth UniversityMIDDLESEX COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationMIDDLESEX COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · EducationUNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · EducationCALDWELL UNIVERSITY INC — $20,000 · Education+4 more — $40,000 · Education+4 moreSETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $67,000 · OtherSETON HALL UNIVERSITYTHOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY — $62,000 · OtherTHOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITYSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $42,000 · OtherSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONBLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INC — $37,000 · OtherBLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR S…PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherPASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE …NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY — $27,000 · OtherNEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITYPASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $22,000 · OtherPASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGEMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION IN — $20,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL — $16,000 · Other+6 more — $62,000 · Other+6 moreCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $70,000 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE …COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER F…OVERLOOK FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthOVERLOOK FOUNDATIONTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · HealthTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITA…Foundation for Morristown Medical Center — $40,000 · HealthFoundation for Morristown …VIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · HealthVIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION I…CURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER — $10,000 · HealthChristian Health Care Center — $10,000 · HealthKENNEDY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyAxiom REACH Inc — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$575,000Other$385,000Health$295,000Philanthropy$20,000Crime & Legal$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFairleigh Dickinson University — $72,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI — $67,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $67,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY — $67,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFELICIAN UNIVERSITY — $62,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY — $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Elizabeth University — $52,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $42,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INC — $37,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALDWELL UNIVERSITY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEDY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetNEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAxiom REACH Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

E and S Van Houten Me…Robert Sydney Needham…Scott Carolyn J Char …Community Foundation …The Provident Bank Fo…Oceanfirst FoundationInvestors Foundation …Pseg Foundation IncBristol-Myers Squibb …Verizon FoundationGertrude L Hirsch Cha…Columbia Bank Foundat…
E and S Van Houten Memorial FundMO36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: E and S Van Houten Memorial Fund · Robert Sydney Needham Fdn Main · Scott Carolyn J Char Tua-Main · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Provident Bank Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Gertrude L Hirsch Charitable Trust · Columbia Bank 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 Walter and Louise Sutcliffe 1990 Fd 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • William Paterson University of New Jersey Alumni Association — 100% of income from government
  • Saint Elizabeth University — 2% of income from government
  • Caldwell University Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
  • Georgian Court University — 1% of income from government
  • Ramapo College Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
  • Christian Health Care Center — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Saint Peter's University — 0% of income from government
  • The College of New Jersey Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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