New Jersey · Nonprofit
SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE
SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE (New Jersey) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,416,069 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($2,300,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What South Ward Alliance does
Mission
Swpn mission: to provide a coordinated pipeline of services and resources that guides and supports families and ensures their children can live in healthy homes, succeed in school, contribute to their communities, and thrive in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The ultimate goal of the south ward promise neighborhood is to ensure all children have an unimpeded path to unlocking their limitless potential. We do this by supporting families and young people in achieving cradle-through-career milestones related to: being physically and emotionally healthy and able to pursue their own wellness, living in stable homes with constructive routines and family members who are committed to children's academic and social-emotional health, residing in vibrant, cohesive communities that are safe, supportive and welcoming and learning in highquality schools that drive purpose and passion, engage caregivers, and prepare students to succeed in the workforce.
$7,130,970 spentof which $4,242,942 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,130,970.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.8M to $8.6M (+80%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 77% · 2019 82% · 2020 77% · 2021 79% · 2022 91% · 2023 89% · 2024 91% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dominique D Lee
CEO
Board chair
Helen Mazarakis
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $200k → $1.1M.
5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 54% · 2019 27% · 2020 76% · 2021 61% · 2022 36% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
22% of SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $673k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 135 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 135 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55.7M on record.
- Department of Education$53.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Swpn 479 Clinton Avenue LLC · disregarded
- Building Responsible Intelligent · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE?
- SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE (New Jersey) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,416,069 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($2,300,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $6,416,069 in grants to SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE?
- THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing