FundersNew Jersey

Ucsb Charitable Foundation Inc

Elizabeth, NJ · EIN 06-1665773. Reported 67 grants totalling $489,320 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$489,320granted, 2021-2024
55organizations funded
11%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,735,925assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Ucsb Charitable Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
22 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
19 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Trinitas Health FoundationElizabeth, NJ$50,000112021
St Joseph's Social Service CenterElizabeth, NJ$35,000332023
Elizabeth Coalition to House the HomelessElizabeth, NJ$34,000332024
United Way of Greater Union County IncElizabeth, NJ$23,000432024
Union County Economic Development CorpCranford, NJ$20,000112022
Urban League of Union CountyElizabeth, NJ$18,000222023
Elizabeth Development Company of New JerseyElizabethport, NJ$16,000112023
Junior Achievement of New JerseyEdison, NJ$16,000222024
Community Access Unlimited IncElizabeth, NJ$15,000112023
Community Loan Fund of New JerseyNew Brunswick, NJ$15,000112023
Greater Newark Enterprises CorporationNewark, NJ$15,000112023
Jfk Medical CenterPlainfield, NJ$15,000112022
Nan Newark Tech WorldNewark, NJ$15,000112023
Boys and Girls Club of Union CountyUnion, NJ$10,000112024
Family & Children Services IncElizabeth, NJ$10,000112024
Nj Citizens Action Education FundNewark, NJ$10,000112024
New Jersey Citizen Action Education FundNewark, NJ$10,000112023
Plainfield Health Connections (jfk University Medical Center)Plainfield, NJ$10,000112021
The Bloc FoundationElizabeth, NJ$10,000112024
The House of Mercy IncElizabeth, NJ$10,000112024
Woodstock Farm SanctuaryHigh Falls, NY$10,000222024
Boys & Girls Club of Union IncUnion, NJ$9,000222022
Metropolitian Baptist ChurchNewark, NJ$9,000112023
YWCA of Eastern Union CountyElizabeth, NJ$9,000222022
UcedcCranford, NJ$7,500112024
Covenant House New JerseyNewark, NJ$5,000112022
Elizabethport Presbyterian Center IncElizabethport, NJ$5,000112023
Groundwork Elizabeth IncElizabeth, NJ$5,000112023
New Jersey Citizen ActionOrange, NJ$5,000112021
Puerto Rican Organizations for Community Educational & Economic DevelopmentElizabeth, NJ$5,000112022
Rising Tide CapitalJersey City, NJ$5,000112023
Saint Peters UniversityJersey City, NJ$5,000112024
Splashes of HopeHuntington, NY$5,000112023
The Institute of Music for ChildrenElizabeth, NJ$5,000112023
The Willing Heart Community Care CenterNewark, NJ$5,000112023
YWCA Northern New JerseyKenilworth, NJ$5,000112024
Bridgway Rehabilitation ServicesElizabeth, NJ$4,000112021
Community Access Institute IncElizabeth, NJ$4,000112021
Proceed Community Development Corporation IncElizabeth, NJ$4,000112021
Trinitas FoundationElizabeth, NJ$4,000112024
Habitat for HumanityNewark, NJ$2,500112023
American Red CrossFairfield, NJ$2,000112022
Sarala Bathena FoundationSouth Brunswick, NJ$2,000112023
Hanson Park ConservancyCranford, NJ$1,400112024
Bridgeway Rehabilitation ServicesElizabeth, NJ$1,000112022
Community Food Bank of New Jersey IncHillside, NJ$1,000112022
NAMI of Union CountyNew Providence, NJ$1,000112022
Nj Citizen Action Education FundNewark, NJ$1,000112021
New York City Relief IncElizabeth, NJ$1,000112022
Rolling Fork RisingRolling Fork, MS$1,000112023
St Vladmir Ukrainian Catholic ChurchElizabeth, NJ$1,000112022
Toys for Tots ProgramMetuchen, NJ$1,000112021
American Heart AssociationSaddle Brook, NJ$720112022
Cranford Ambulance SquadCranford, NJ$100112021
National Kidney FoundationElizabeth, NJ$100112021

8 of 55 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 11%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
14 grants
Community Improvement
7 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants
Education
3 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202115$110,200$4,000
202219$118,720$5,000
202319$147,500$5,000
202414$112,900$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 97% of this one's giving went to organizations in New Jersey. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New Jersey
$473K
New York
$15K
Mississippi
$1K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Community Foundation of New Jersey21 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc18 shared recipientsThe Hyde and Watson Foundation14 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc14 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsEj Grassmann Trust13 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New Jersey.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Ucsb Charitable Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 320 North Broad Street, Elizabeth, NJ, 07207. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 06-1665773 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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