Funds preselected organizations onlyPhilanthropy and grantmaking277 grants on file · $3M · FY2016–2025IRS 990-PF · FY2025
Can I apply?
Funds preselected organizations only
The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it gives only to organizations it has already chosen and does not accept unsolicited requests. An introduction is usually the only route.
How to apply
Deadlines
Restrictions
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Not publishedBERNARDSVILLE, NJ, 07924The filing names a person as the application contact. We publish role-based contacts (a committee, an office, a shared inbox) but not named individuals.An email address and a phone number for applications is on the filing. On the filing, not published; see “How to reach them” for any published channel.
Application policy: Funds preselected organizations only, as stated on the FY2025 return.
What its returns show
Stated the same way on all 10 Form 990-PF returns on record (FY2016 to FY2025).
These lines count this foundation's own Form 990-PF returns that the IRS has published as data. An amended return replaces its original. They describe past returns only.
Application guidance comes from the funder's own Form 990-PF, Part XV (the section where a private foundation says how to apply), shown as filed. It is the funder's words, not ours. These fields are free text and the IRS form cuts them short. Filers sometimes put whole sentences in the contact-name box. Shown exactly as filed.
Financials
Giving
$362K
FY2025 · qualifying distributions
Total assets
$2.4M
FY2025 · end of year
Revenue
$326K
FY2025
Expenses
$395K
FY2025
Giving by year
Total assets by year
Year
Form
Revenue
Expenses
Giving
Assets
Net assets
FY2025
990-PF
$326,258
$394,772
$362,200
$2,440,817
Figures are as reported on the e-filed return, with no restatement. Fiscal years are the funder's own tax year, labelled by the calendar year the period ends in. A blank line means the return does not carry that figure; a real zero shows as $0. When an amended return replaces an original, every figure here uses the amended return. The original is not shown. Giving is what the funder actually paid out toward its charitable purpose in the year (qualifying distributions on Form 990-PF, charitable disbursements otherwise). Assets are what it holds; giving is what moves.
What they fund
Recipient focus areas
Health care$74K · 13
Philanthropy and grantmaking$60.2K · 6
Human services$50.5K · 8
Animal welfare$45.7K · 6
Education$27K · 4
Food and agriculture$26K · 3
Where recipients are
NJ$1.4M · 129
FL$534K · 30
NY$221K · 13
TX$180K · 10
ME$141K · 27
PA$97K · 9
CO$80K · 10
VA$63.8K · 7
Based on the 18% of grant rows we could match to an organization record. The rest stay as reported. The IRS assigns the NTEE category when it grants exemption. It often reflects the original filing, not today's giving.
Grants paid
277 on file
Recipient
Purpose
Amount
Year
Source
WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECTNEW YORK, NY
VARIOUS
$157,000
2024
Recipients are shown as the funder wrote them on the return. A recipient with a link was matched to an organization record; the rest stay as reported and are never guessed.
Officers and directors
Name
Title
Hours / week
Compensation
Nancy M Ernst
TRUSTEE
1.00
$0
Robert Goldstein
TRUSTEE
1.00
$0
Gary Mahan
TRUSTEE
1.00
$0
Roger Mahan
TRUSTEE
From the officer list on the latest e-filed return. Compensation is as reported there; a blank means the return carries no figure.
$2,440,817
FY2024
990-PF
$379,346
$379,758
$341,170
$2,509,331
$2,509,331
FY2023
990-PF
$365,780
$347,743
$320,700
$2,509,743
$2,509,743
FY2022
990-PF
−$672,534
$317,525
$317,524
$2,541,706
$2,491,706
FY2021
990-PF
$505,786
$459,763
$459,763
$3,481,765
$3,481,765
FY2020
990-PF
$688,310
$350,132
$350,132
$3,435,742
$3,435,742
FY2019
990-PF
$227,276
$346,444
$346,444
$3,097,564
$3,097,564
FY2018
990-PF
−$1,412,982
$291,355
$291,357
$3,216,732
$3,216,732
FY2017
990-PF
$470,272
$268,249
$268,249
$4,921,069
$4,921,069
FY2016
990-PF
$199,698
$277,543
$237,042
$4,719,046
$4,719,046
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
SOMERSET, NJ
VARIOUS
$61,000
2025
THE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONSSOMERSET, NJ
VARIOUS
$60,000
2022
HEAVEN ON EARTH FOR VETERANSST PETERSBURG, FL
VARIOUS
$60,000
2021
HEAVEN ON EARTH FOR VETERANSST PETERSBURG, FL
VARIOUS
$37,000
2024
HEAVEN ON EARTH FOR VETERANSST PETERSBURG, FL
VARIOUS
$30,700
2023
HEAVEN ON EARTH FOR VETERANSST PETERSBURG, FL
VARIOUS
$30,600
2019
HEAVEN ON EARTH FOR VETERANSST PETERSBURG, FL
VARIOUS
$30,000
2020
FLORIDA CANCER FOUNDATIONST PETERSBURG, FL
VARIOUS
$30,000
2021
FCS FOUNDATIONFT MYERS, FL
VARIOUS
$30,000
2019
FLORIDA CANCER FOUNDATIONST PETERSBURG, FL
VARIOUS
$30,000
2020
FELLOWSHIP VILLAGE BENEVOLENT FUNDBASKING RIDGE, NJ
VARIOUS
$26,000
2016
MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONMORRISTOWN, NJ
VARIOUS
$25,888
2016
FELLOWSHIP VILLAGE BENEVOLENT FUNDBASKING RIDGE, NJ
VARIOUS
$25,400
2021
CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICESCOTCH PLAINS, NJ
VARIOUS
$25,000
2021
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJHILLSDALE, NJ
VARIOUS
$25,000
2017
FCS FOUNDATIONFT MYERS, FL
VARIOUS
$25,000
2017
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJHILLSDALE, NJ
VARIOUS
$25,000
2016
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJHILLSDALE, NJ
VARIOUS
$25,000
2020
FELLOWSHIP VILLAGE BENEVOLENT FUNDBASKING RIDGE, NJ
VARIOUS
$25,000
2020
THE NATIONAL K12 CERAMIC EXHIBIT FOUNDATIONDALLAS, TX