New Jersey · Nonprofit
UNICO NATIONAL INC
UNICO NATIONAL INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $553,787 to it, the largest being DEFRANCIS SCHOLARSHIP FUND XXXXX2002 ($426,337). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNICO NATIONAL INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundationshared funders
- Ohio Isda Community Foundation Incportfolio match
- National Italian American Foundationincportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
41% of UNICO NATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $49k → $104k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 UNICO NATIONAL INC’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
UNICO NATIONAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 93% · 2019 95% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 74% · 2023 69% — 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
83% of UNICO NATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 60% 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
UNICO NATIONAL INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 318 organizations that share them.
- The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundationshared fundersNE · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- Ohio Isda Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Italian American Foundationincportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dixie & Anne Leavitt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lidia Matticchio Bastianich Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Transport Workers Union of Greater New York Local 100portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Judith Ehm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bank of Utica Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Union Countportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Columbus Citizens Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waccamaw Community Foundationshared fundersSC · backs 16 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like UNICO NATIONAL INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
11% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNICO NATIONAL INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNICO NATIONAL INC?
- UNICO NATIONAL INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $553,787 to it, the largest being DEFRANCIS SCHOLARSHIP FUND XXXXX2002 ($426,337). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNICO NATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $553,787 in grants to UNICO NATIONAL INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNICO NATIONAL INC?
- DEFRANCIS SCHOLARSHIP FUND XXXXX2002 is the largest funder on record, with $426,337 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNICO NATIONAL INC 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing