· Private foundation
Environmental Endowment for New Jersey Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT FOR NEW JERSEY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $20,000 |
| ENVIRONMENT NJ RESEARCH AND POLICY | $20,000 |
| DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK | $20,000 |
| WORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NJ | $20,000 |
| NYNJ BAYKEEPER | $18,000 |
| FOOD & WATER WATCH | $18,000 |
| CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMA | $18,000 |
| CLEAN WATER FUND | $18,000 |
| NEWARK DOING INFRASTRUCTURE GREEN | $16,000 |
| CLEAN OCEAN ACTION | $16,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB NJ | $16,000 |
| MUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $14,000 |
| ASSOC OF NJ ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSI | $14,000 |
| AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY | $14,000 |
| IRONBOUND COMMUNITY CORPORATION | $12,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 61% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
31 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- COCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +48%
- MWMUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2025 · $113k · revenue +69%
- ALAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +187%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- AOASSOCIATION OF NJ ENVIRONMENTAL COMone grant, 2023 · $18k
- CDCOMITE DE APOYO A LOS TRABAJADORESone grant, 2019 · $17k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, Inc. Is an alliance of New Jersey Organizations and Individuals committed to creating healthy, sustainable and just communities by eliminating environmental injustices in low income and…
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…
Non profit educational organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing the water environment.
Conserve wildlife foundation of new jersey works to preserve rare and at-risk wildlife in new jersey through field science, habitat restoration, education, and public engagement.
The land conservancy of new jersey preserves land and water resources, conserves open space, and inspires and empowers individuals and communities to protect land and the environment.
The mission of hackensack riverkeeper is to protect, preserve, and restore the hackensack river watershed and its living resources. hackensack riverkeeper fights for clean water, open space preservation, and public access to the river for…
Foodshed Alliance works to strengthen sustainable farming, increase access to local, healthy food, and protect the environment for all members of our communities
The Native Plant Society of New Jersey is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation protection and study of the native flora of New Jersey.
Connect businesses, nonprofits and individuals to protect and restore new jersey's natural environment, assuring a better quality of life for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Dba Nj League of Cons Voters and the most unlike its peers is Future City Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds EASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Ironbound Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR A BETTER WATERFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds WORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds RARITAN BAYKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds Future City Inc ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES DBA NJ LEAGUE OF CONS VOTERS ↗
- Who funds PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WARD ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDISON WETLANDS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK ELIZABETH INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · New Jersey Conservation Foundation · New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund · Fund for New Jersey · Victoria Foundation Inc · Duke Farms Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · The William Penn Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Environmental Endowment for New Jersey Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- Plastic Free Delaware — 21% of income from government
- Musconetcong Watershed Association — 14% of income from government
- Work Environment Council of New Jersey Inc — 13% of income from government
- Groundwork Elizabeth Inc — 9% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- American Littoral Society — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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