· Private foundation
Whelan Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of WHELAN FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SAINT PETER'S PREP | $20,000 |
| GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| OUR LADY OF MT CARMEL SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| MERCY CENTER | $15,500 |
| FULFILL | $15,000 |
| OCEAN'S HARBOR HOUSE | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $5,000 |
| COLLIER SERVICES | $5,000 |
| MARKET STREET MISSION | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR | $1,000 |
| JUST US GIRLS | $1,000 |
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, $382k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 11% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MCMERCY CENTER CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $246k · revenue +439%
- SPSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +6%
- GCGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- SJST JOSEPH'S HOMEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ISINTERFAITH SERVICES OCEAN COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $5k
- RREDEEM-HERone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -79%
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.
Keeping faith with the teachings of the roman catholic church and guided by the bishop of metuchen, saint peter's university hospital is committed to humble service to humanity, especially the poor, through competence and good stewardship…
Our mission - to inspire our family with endless opportunities.our vision - to be the premier provider, offering exceptional services and innovative programs that empower those we serve and those who serve them to experience the best that…
Our mission - to inspire our family with endless opportunities.our vision - to be the premier provider, offering exceptional services and innovative programs that empower those we serve and those who serve them to experience the best that…
We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.
The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…
Saint peter's healthcare system, inc. is a not for-profit holding company based in new brunswick, new jersey. saint peter's healthcare system, inc. is the sole corporate member of a number of not for-profit entities and the sole…
My Fathers House, Inc. provides assessment, evaluation, intensive outpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, individual counseling, family counseling and aftercare group services. MFHs operation are located in Gloucester City, New Jersey.
Operate the only transitional housing facility in Ocean County, a sober-living environment, to shelter and empower (counsel) eight people at a time. Open "Samaritan House" in June 2014. In 2025, still getting back to full capacity due to…
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death after lung cancer in women in the us overall, but its the leading cause of cancer death in black and hispanic women. geographical disparities in breast cancer incidence and…
Holy name medical center, inc. is a community of caregivers committed to a ministry of healing, embracing the tradition of catholic principles, the pursuit of professional excellence and conscientious stewardship. we help our community…
To provide shelter, food, medical and mental health care, legal services, educational and vocational services and an array of housing options, including transitional and permanent housing opportunities, for youth facing homelessness and…
Ohio is now home to safe harbor, a faith-based, long-term, residential, therapeutic community for girls, ages 14 through 18, who are survivors of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation. safe harbor provides trauma-informed, holistic care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Center Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 47 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.
- Who funds MERCY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL ↗
- Who funds COLLIER SERVICES - SISTERS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN'S HARBOR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUST US GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds REDEEM-HER ↗
- Who funds RALLYCAP SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING LAKE MEMORIAL COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds SEA GIRT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ROTACARE INC ↗
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 · Oceanfirst Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Catholic Human Services Foundation · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates · The Provident Bank Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Jules L Plangere Jr Fam Fdn Inc
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 Whelan Foundation 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.
- Ocean's Harbor House Inc — 75% of income from government
- Mercy Center Corporation — 21% of income from government
- Interfaith Neighbors Inc — 9% of income from government
- Collier Services - Sisters of the Good Shepherd — 3% of income from government
- Georgian Court University — 1% of income from government
- Saint Peter's University — 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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