· Private foundation
Fund for New Jersey
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $512k
- $50k–250k32 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $175,000 |
| NEW JERSEY POLICY PERSPECTIVE | $125,000 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE | $125,000 |
| HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK OF NEW JERSEY | $125,000 |
| NEO- PHILANTHROPY-NJ ALLIANCE FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE | $125,000 |
| FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE | $100,000 |
| NJ CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FND | $100,000 |
| EDUCATION LAW CENTER | $100,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF NEW JERSEY EDUCATION FUND | $100,000 |
| LATINO ACTION NETWORK FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MAKE THE ROAD STATES | $100,000 |
| ACLU OF NJ FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE | $100,000 |
| NEW YORKNEW JERSEY BAYKEEPER | $75,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $731k 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
New Jersey Policy Perspective5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +27%- SASALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +216%
Latino Action Network Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $865k · revenue +363%
Funded once
- UBUNITED BLACK AGENDA INCone grant, 2023 · $240k
- NCNJ CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2021 · $115k
- MTMAKE THE ROAD NJone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.
To advance member interests, operational and environmental excellence, science,education, and community outreach in New Jersey.
Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.
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,…
Provide leadership in public policy and education to enable New Jersey older adults to live with independence and dignity in their communities.
To provide vision and leadership to advance the interest of the food industry in new jersey.
The new jersey civil justice institute (the "institute") is the state's leading organization advocating for the business community on matters of law and legal policy. the institute promotes a fair and predictable civil justice system, and…
Njcu is a membership organization of low and moderate income families focusing on public education, living wage jobs, worker rights, foreclosures and community justice issues through community outreach and education programs & works with…
Work for the improvement of health standards and the availability of healthcare services for all people; foster high standards of nursing; stimulate and promote the professional development of nurses; advance the economic and general…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The Organization's mission is to improve the safety, quality, and affordability of healthcare for everyone.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Whyy 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 130 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 New Jersey Policy Perspective ↗
- Who funds SALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N ↗
- Who funds Latino Action Network Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance ↗
- Who funds GREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF NEW JERSEY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Ironbound Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT NEW JERSEY RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED BLACK AGENDA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION ↗
- Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS ↗
- Who funds HYACINTH AIDS FOUNDATION 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 · 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
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 Fund for New Jersey 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.
- Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc — 100% of income from government
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- New Brunswick Tomorrow — 74% of income from government
- Greater Bergen Community Action Inc — 62% of income from government
- Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N — 52% of income from government
- Newark Public Radio Inc — 51% of income from government
- Children's Futures Inc — 46% of income from government
- United Community Corporation — 45% of income from government
- New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — 39% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- Aapi Montclair Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Education & Training Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey Inc — 19% of income from government
- New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault — 14% of income from government
- Work Environment Council of New Jersey Inc — 13% of income from government
- New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc — 9% of income from government
- Hyacinth Aids Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
- New Jersey Future Inc — 7% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
- New Jersey Library Association — 0% 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.