South Ward Alliance
Newark, NJ · EIN 47-1202863. Reported 141 grants totalling $21.5M to 60 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For South Ward Alliance, the IRS classifies it under youth development rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE O99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 77% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $118,398. Half of what it reported fell between $52,360 and $207,792; the smallest was $5,400 and the largest $1,165,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newark Community Street Team Inc | Newark, NJ | $2,114,170 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Leaders for Life Inc | Newark, NJ | $1,540,115 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Peoples Achieve Community Charter School | Newark, NJ | $1,165,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Imagine a Center for Coping With Loss | Mountainside, NJ | $1,140,555 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Gateway University | Memphis, TN | $1,049,447 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Great Oaks Charter School | Newark, NJ | $996,607 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Family Connections Inc | East Orange, NJ | $969,056 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Greater Newark Health Care Coalition Inc | West Orange, NJ | $900,951 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Youthbuild Newark Inc | Newark, NJ | $818,812 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Teach for America Inc | New York, NY | $702,700 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Clinton Hill Community Early Childhood Center | Newark, NJ | $658,197 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Volunteer Lawyers for Justice Inc | Newark, NJ | $625,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Achieve Community Charter School | Newark, NJ | $587,826 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Uncommon Schools Inc | New York, NY | $542,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Clinton Hill Community and Early Childhood Center Inc | Newark, NJ | $518,091 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Youth Consultation Service Inc | Newark, NJ | $420,659 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rutgers University Foundation | New Brunswick, NJ | $416,528 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Newark Trust for Education Inc | Newarl, NJ | $412,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Programs for Parents Inc | Newark, NJ | $389,779 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Propel America | Washington, DC | $374,179 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Propel America | Boston, MA | $349,673 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| La CASA De Don Pedro Inc | Newark, NJ | $320,100 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Rutgers the State University of Nj | Woodstown, NJ | $275,691 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Asset Preservation Corporation | New Brunswick, NJ | $275,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Knowledge House Total | $251,910 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Newark Youth Career Pathways Total | $251,325 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Trio New College Network Inc | Boston, MA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Gateway U Total | $249,977 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc | Bronx, NY | $225,181 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Perinatal Health Equity Foundation | East Orange, NJ | $215,477 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Team Academy Charter School Inc | Newark, NJ | $215,048 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Newark Alliance Inc | Newark, NJ | $194,120 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Newark Youth Career Pathways | Newark, NJ | $188,675 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Exponent Partners | San Francisco, CA | $180,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Prevention Links | Roselle, NJ | $175,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology Total | $165,686 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Food Allergy Research & Education Inc | Mclean, VA | $144,348 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Way of Greater Newark Inc | Newark, NJ | $137,548 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology | Newark, NJ | $135,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| KIPP Team and Family Schools Inc | Newark, NJ | $128,134 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hopeworks N Camden Inc | Camden, NJ | $115,566 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Clinton Hill Community Action | Newark, NJ | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Food Allergy Research Education | Mclean, VA | $83,390 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Team Academy Charter School Inc Total | $77,280 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Newark Alliance Inc | Newark, NJ | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| KIPP Team and Family Schools Inc Total | $65,870 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Newark College Institute | Morristown, NJ | $52,360 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Foya Development | Irvington, NJ | $47,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foya Development Total | $47,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| United Way of Essex and West Hudson | Newark, NJ | $37,498 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Newark Emergency Service for Families | Newark, NJ | $27,225 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lilacs on York Creative | $22,983 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| The Perinatal Health Equity Foundation | East Orange, NJ | $17,365 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rani Soto Total | $15,238 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Hopeworks Total | $13,389 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Shantala Thompson | Newark, NJ | $12,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clinton Hill Community Action | Newark, NJ | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sara Shaw Total | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| She Wins Inc | Newark, NJ | $5,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
33 of 60 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Peoples Achieve Community Charter School
TO SUPPORT STUDENTS IN THEIR ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 29 of 60 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 21 | $2,686,331 | $105,600 |
| 2021 | 27 | $3,764,070 | $100,000 |
| 2022 | 34 | $5,443,182 | $154,120 |
| 2023 | 33 | $4,211,241 | $100,013 |
| 2024 | 26 | $5,403,255 | $129,629 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
81% of its giving went to organizations in New Jersey. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $118,398 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New Jersey.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from South Ward Alliance's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 35 Halsey Street Floor 3, Newark, NJ, 07102.
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