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Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center Inc

The corporation is organized for the purpose of conducting public interest research, policy development, analysis, and education to protect the environment and people of new jersey including, but not limited to, the quality of new jersey's air, water and land.

$120k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Environment$1.1MPublic Benefit$35kHousing & Shelter$10kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2021 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW JERSEY WORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL$50,000
CLEAN WATER FUND$25,000
TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN$25,000
GREENFAITH$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%PENNENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC: $28k → 22%TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN: $35k → 17%CLEAN WATER FUND: $25k → 14%ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH & POLICY CENTER INC: $200k → 12%CLEAN WATER FUND: $30k → 6%GREENFAITH: $96k → 8%NEW JERSEY WORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL: $59k → 11%Coopers Ferry Partnership: $10k → 12%NJ Working Families Alliance: $35k → 16%GREENFAITH: $27k → 17%CLEAN WATER FUND: $17k → 14%ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH & POLICY CENTER INC: $100k → 12%Clean Water Fund: $10k → 6%GreenFaith: $33k → 8%NEW JERSEY WORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL: $50k → 11%TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN: $25k → 17%Env America Research & Policy: $25k → 12%GreenFaith: $13k → 8%NEW JERSEY WORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL: $109k → 11%GREENFAITH: $20k → 17%Env America Research & Policy: $7k → 12%NJ Work Environment Council: $50k → 11%TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN: $19k → 17%ISLES INC: $40k → 11%NJ Work Environment Council: $33k → 11%Sierra Club Foundation of NJ: $15k → 11%Isles Inc: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 6 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$1.0M
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
-8%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21
EnvironmentHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EA
    ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $332k · revenue +186%
  • GI
    GREENFAITH INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $188k · revenue +99%
  • CW
    CLEAN WATER FUND
    4× · 2018–2021 · $82k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY WORKING FAMILIES ALLIANCE CORP
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +6%
  • PR
    PENNENVIRONMENT RESEARCH & POLICY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2019 · $28k · revenue -8%
  • SC
    Sierra Club Foundation of NJ
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…

Environment
2
Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center Inc

The corporation is organized for the purpose of conducting public interest research, policy development, analysis, and education to protect the environment and people of new jersey including, but not limited to, the quality of new jersey's…

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3
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
4
Clean Water Action

Clean water action is a national citizens organization working for clean, safe, and affrodable water, prevention of health threatening pollution, creation of environmentally safe jobs and busnesses and empowerment of people to make…

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5
Environmental Research Center Inc

To safeguard the public from health hazards that impact families, workers, and the environment

Environment
6
Clean Energy Works

Clean energy works accelerates inclusive investments that open the clean energy economy to all.

Environment
7
Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future

The mission of pennfuture is to lead the transition to a clean energy economy in pennsylvania and beyond. pennfuture is protecting our air, water and land, and empowering citizens to build sustainable communities for future generations.

Environment
8
Greenlight Action

Greenlight action mobilizes grassroots power to get more clean energy projects built more quickly across the united states.

Environment
9
Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Dba Nj League of Cons Voters

New jersey lcv is the statewide political voice for the environment. working with our allies in the community, we advocate for strong environmental policies, support our environmental justice partners in pursuing more equitable policies,…

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10
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
11
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
12
Communities for a Better Environment

The mission of cbe is to build people's power in california's communities of color and low income communities to achieve environmental health and justice by preventing and reducing pollution and building green, healthy and sustainable…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Jersey Working Families Alliance Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC: $332,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INCGREENFAITH INC: $188,446 · EnvironmentGREENFAITH INCCLEAN WATER FUND: $82,056 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUNDTRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC: $78,598 · EnvironmentTRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INCPENNENVIRONMENT RESEARCH & POLICY CENTER INC: $27,500 · EnvironmentWORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY INC: $302,161 · OtherWORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NEW J…Sierra Club Foundation of NJ: $15,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherISLES INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW JERSEY WORKING FAMILIES ALLIANCE CORP: $35,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$708,600Other$327,161Housing & Shelter$50,000Community Improvement$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC: $332,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetWORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY INC: $302,161 over 5y, 13% of budgetGREENFAITH INC: $188,446 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $82,056 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC: $78,598 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetISLES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW JERSEY WORKING FAMILIES ALLIANCE CORP: $35,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetPENNENVIRONMENT RESEARCH & POLICY CENTER INC: $27,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCAMDEN COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Environment America R…Fund for New JerseyThe Energy FoundationUnited States Energy …The William Penn Foun…Fidelity Investments …
Environment America Research and Policy Center IncCO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc · Fund for New Jersey · The Energy Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Isles Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Camden Community Partnership Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Work Environment Council of New Jersey Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center Inc?

Find your warmest path to Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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