New Jersey · Private foundation
Fund for New Jersey
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 78
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $60M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Fund for New Jersey funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $757k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 51 | $3.3M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $5.6M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $3.4M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $3.5M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 78 | $3.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey Policy Perspective | $1,195,000 | 5 | 22% |
| Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N | $1,130,000 | 5 | 23% |
| Latino Action Network Foundation | $865,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Fair Share Housing Center Inc | $714,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey Inc | $600,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Eastern Environmental Law Center Inc | $597,000 | 5 | 27% |
| The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Inc | $555,402 | 4 | 8% |
| Faith in New Jersey | $524,000 | 3 | 100% |
| Education Law Center Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 3% |
| American Friends Service Committee | $500,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fund for New Jersey supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Victoria Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · United States Energy Foundation · The Prudential Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund
How this is measured
About Fund for New Jersey
- How much does Fund for New Jersey give?
- Fund for New Jersey reported 55 grants totaling $3,276,111 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 78 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Fund for New Jersey fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (40%), Environment (15%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Fund for New Jersey's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: New Jersey Policy Perspective ($1.2M), Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N ($1.1M), Latino Action Network Foundation ($865k).
- Does Fund for New Jersey fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fund for New Jersey accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for New Jersey?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Victoria Foundation Inc.
- Where is Fund for New Jersey based?
- Fund for New Jersey is based in NJ.
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