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Community Response LLC

Asbury, NJ · EIN 37-1854016. Reported 59 grants totalling $749,025 to 25 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

25organizations funded
$12,500median reported grant
$749,025granted, 2021-2024
64%of grantees funded again the next year
13%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Community Response LLC, the IRS classifies it under public & societal benefit rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE W30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 13% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 64% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $12,500. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $1,500 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
40 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants

24 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $340,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
K9S for Warriors IncPonte Vedra, FL$100,000442024
Lehigh Valley Military Affairs CouncilAllentown, PA$80,000442024
Community Hope IncParsippany, NJ$65,000442024
Northampton County Area Community College FoundationBethlehem, PA$65,000442024
Bucks County Community College FoundationNewtown, PA$55,000442024
Sussex County Community CollegeNewton, NJ$50,000442024
Union County College Foundation IncCranford, NJ$50,000442024
Moravian UniversityBethlehem, PA$42,500442024
Eos Therapeutic Riding CenterBloomsburg, PA$30,000222024
Head Strong Project IncFlushing, NY$27,500332024
Duskin and Stephens FoundationSouthern Pnes, NC$25,000222023
Protect Our Defenders FoundationSarasota, FL$22,500332023
Alpha Bravo CanineNewtown, PA$20,000112023
Second Harvest Foodbank Lv Military Share ProgramNazareth, PA$17,925112023
Children of Fallen Patriots FoundationReston, VA$15,000222023
Warrior Strong IncScranton, PA$15,000222023
Battle BorneCenter Valley, PA$12,500222024
High Fives Nonprofit FoundationTruckee, CA$12,500222023
Raritan Valley Community College Dir of Budget & Finance OfficeSomerville, NJ$12,500112024
Organization for Autism Research IncArlington, VA$10,000112021
Therapeutic Riding at Centenary Veterans ProgramLong Valley, NJ$8,000112023
Homes Fit for Heroes IncRamsey, NJ$5,000112023
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing IncLa Plata, MD$5,000112023
Irvington Board of EducationIrvington, NJ$1,600112023
101ST Airborne Division Association IncFort Campbell, KY$1,500112023

16 of 25 (64%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 25 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
7 orgs
Human Services
3 orgs
Health Care
3 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
2 orgs
Animal Welfare
1 org
Mental Health
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org
Medical Research
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202114$190,000$12,500
202210$150,000$12,500
202323$246,525$10,000
202412$162,500$12,500

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

45% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. 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.

Pennsylvania
$338K
New Jersey
$192K
Florida
$122K
New York
$28K
North Carolina
$25K
Virginia
$25K
California
$12K
Maryland
$5K

Down to the city

Bethlehem, PA
$108K
Ponte Vedra, FL
$100K
Allentown, PA
$80K
Newtown, PA
$75K
Parsippany, NJ
$65K
Newton, NJ
$50K

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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 the strongest signal available 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipientsPaypal Charitable Giving Fund8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust8 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
  4. 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 Community Response LLC's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 171 Route 173 201, Asbury, NJ, 08802.

EIN 37-1854016 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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