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Environmental Endowment for New Jersey Inc at a glance

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Environmental Endowment for New Jersey Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$286k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$2.0MCommunity Improvement$106kAnimals$85kFood & Nutrition$75kEmployment$60kHealth$20kReligion$12kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $265k
$16,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENVIRONMENT NJ RESEARCH AND POLICY$20,000
EASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$20,000
DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK$20,000
WORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NJ$20,000
CLEAN WATER FUND$18,000
FOOD & WATER WATCH$18,000
NYNJ BAYKEEPER$18,000
CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMA$18,000
NEWARK DOING INFRASTRUCTURE GREEN$16,000
CLEAN OCEAN ACTION$16,000
SIERRA CLUB NJ$16,000
AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY$14,000
ASSOC OF NJ ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSI$14,000
MUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$14,000
IRONBOUND COMMUNITY CORPORATION$12,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $20k → 6%DAMASCUS CITIZENS FOR SUS: $20k → 13%DAMASCUS CITIZENS FOR SUSTAINABILIT: $20k → 16%CLEAN WATER FUND: $20k → 14%ASSOC OF NJ ENVIRONMENTA: $20k → 4%NJ AUDUBON SOCIETY: $19k → 5%PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $19k → 7%ENVIRONMENT NJ RESEARCH AND POLICY: $20k → 8%WORK ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL OF NJ: $20k → 11%FUND FOR A BETTER WATERFRONT: $20k → 14%DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NET: $20k → 6%DAMASCUS CITIZENS FOR SUS: $20k → 13%DAMASCUS CITIZENS FOR SUSTAINABILIT: $20k → 16%NJ AUDUBON SOCIETY: $19k → 5%CLEAN WATER FUND: $20k → 6%FOOD & WATER WATCH: $20k → 8%ENVIRONMENT NJ RESEARCH AND POLICY: $20k → 11%NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH HUMAN: $19k → 12%DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $20k → 6%DAMASCUS CITIZENS FOR SUSTAINABILIT: $20k → 16%FOOD AND WATER WATCH: $20k → 14%CLEAN WATER FUND: $20k → 6%ENVIRONMENT NJ RESEARCH AND POLICY: $20k → 8%WORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NJ: $20k → 11%DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $20k → 6%DAMASCUS CITIZENS FOR SUSTAINABILIT: $20k → 16%FOOD AND WATER WATCH: $20k → 14%CLEAN WATER FUND: $20k → 6%ENVIRONMENT NJ RESEARCH AND POLICY: $20k → 8%WORK ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL OF NJ: $20k → 11%DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $20k → 6%ENVIRONMENT NJ RESEARCH AND POLICY: $20k → 8%WORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NJ: $20k → 11%DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NET: $19k → 6%ENVIRONMENT NJ RESEARCH AND POLICY: $20k → 11%EASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $20k → 16%WORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NJ: $20k → 11%EASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: $20k → 16%EASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $20k → 16%EASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $20k → 16%EASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $20k → 16%NEW YORK NEW JERSEY BAYKEEPER: $20k → 6%SIERRA CLUB NJ: $20k → 11%EASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $20k → 16%NEW YORK NEW JERSEY BAYKEEPER: $20k → 6%SIERRA CLUB NJ: $20k → 11%CLEAN OCEAN ACTION: $20k → 6%CLEAN OCEAN ACTION: $20k → 6%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 31 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
10

Total granted

$2.2M
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+45%

Still filing today

52%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CO
    CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +48%
  • MW
    MUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $113k · revenue +69%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +187%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF NJ ENVIRONMENTAL COM
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • CD
    COMITE DE APOYO A LOS TRABAJADORES
    one grant, 2019 · $17k
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
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance

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…

Environment
2
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

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…

Environment
3
New Jersey Water Environment Association

Non profit educational organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing the water environment.

Environment
4
Canal Society of New Jersey
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5
Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Inc

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.

Animals
6
The Land Conservancy of New Jersey

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.

Environment
7
Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc

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…

Environment
8
Environment Now
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9
Foodshed Alliance a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

Foodshed Alliance works to strengthen sustainable farming, increase access to local, healthy food, and protect the environment for all members of our communities

Food & Nutrition
10
The Native Plant Society of New Jersey Inc

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.

Environment
11
Earthshare New Jersey Inc

Connect businesses, nonprofits and individuals to protect and restore new jersey's natural environment, assuring a better quality of life for all.

Philanthropy
12
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Dba Nj League of Cons Voters; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENVIRONMENT NJ RESEARCH AND POLICY: $158,000 · OtherENVIRONMENT NJ RESEARCH AND POLICYSIERRA CLUB NJ: $138,000 · OtherSIERRA CLUB NJDELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $99,000 · OtherDELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORKIronbound Community Corporation: $98,750 · OtherIronbound Community CorporationNEW YORK NEW JERSEY BAYKEEPER: $94,000 · OtherNEW YORK NEW JERSEY BAYKEEPERDAMASCUS CITIZENS FOR SUSTAINABILIT: $94,000 · OtherDAMASCUS CITIZENS FOR SUSTAINABILITWORK ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL OF NJ: $92,000 · OtherWORK ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL OF NJFUND FOR A BETTER WATERFRONT INC: $71,000 · OtherWORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY INC: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $57,000 · OtherFOOD & WATER WATCH: $56,000 · OtherNEWARK DOING INFRASTRUCTURE GREEN: $50,000 · OtherASSOC OF NJ ENVIRONMENTAL COMM: $48,000 · Other+15 more: $304,000 · Other+15 moreCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $143,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INCCLEAN WATER FUND: $131,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUNDEASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER INC: $120,000 · EnvironmentEASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER INCMUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $113,000 · EnvironmentMUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $102,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETYNew Jersey Audubon Society: $85,000 · EnvironmentNew Jersey Audubon SocietyRARITAN BAYKEEPER INC: $54,000 · EnvironmentRARITAN BAYKEEPER INCPLASTIC FREE DELAWARE: $34,500 · EnvironmentPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $34,000 · EnvironmentSOUTH WARD ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $34,000 · Environment+4 more: $46,000 · EnvironmentFOOD & WATER WATCH: $75,000 · Food & NutritionFuture City Inc: $54,000 · Community ImprovementGROUNDWORK ELIZABETH INC: $7,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,419,750Environment$896,500Food & Nutrition$75,000Community Improvement$54,000Recreation & Sports$7,000

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 budgetCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $143,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $131,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetEASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER INC: $120,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetMUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $113,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $102,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetDELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $99,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation: $98,750 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNew Jersey Audubon Society: $85,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR A BETTER WATERFRONT INC: $71,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetWORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetRARITAN BAYKEEPER INC: $54,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFuture City Inc: $54,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetFEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES DBA NJ LEAGUE OF CONS VOTERS: $35,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetPLASTIC FREE DELAWARE: $34,500 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $34,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTH WARD ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $34,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGROUNDWORK ELIZABETH INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION: $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

  • 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 PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH WARD ENVIRONMENTAL 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 ↗

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.

Geraldine R Dodge Fou…Community Foundation …Pseg Foundation IncThe Hyde and Watson F…National Fish and Wil…New Jersey Conservati…New Jersey League of …Fund for New JerseyVictoria Foundation I…Duke Farms FoundationUnited States Energy …The William Penn Foun…
Geraldine R Dodge Foundation IncNJ28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Environmental Endowment for New Jersey Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Environmental Endowment for New Jersey Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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 Environmental Endowment for New Jersey Inc?

Find your warmest path to Environmental Endowment for New Jersey 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 45 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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