New Jersey · Public charity
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc
Jfnnj fulfills its mission by bringing people and resources together to meet the most urgent jewish communal needs in the northern new jersey community, israel and around the world.
- $14M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 105
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 94
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $9.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 62 to 94
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $104M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $415k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 99 | $9.3M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 94 | $4.3M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $1.8M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 85 | $3.7M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 79 | $3.2M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 74 | $3.3M | 26% |
| FY2019 | 67 | $2.9M | 27% |
| FY2018 | 62 | $2.8M | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family & Children's Services of Northern New Jersey Inc | $6,524,839 | 9 | 12% |
| Jewish Community Center on the Palisades | $2,240,981 | 7 | 2% |
| The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus | $2,000,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Young Mens-Young Womens Hebrew Assoc of Bergen County | $1,794,784 | 9 | 39% |
| Economic and Community Development Institute | $1,500,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Volcani International Partnerships - US Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rutgers University Foundation | $836,827 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Home Foundation of North Jersey | $784,054 | 9 | 7% |
| Kaplen Jcc on the Palisades | $731,322 | 2 | n/a |
| Sinai Special Needs Institute Inc | $655,936 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 222 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 138 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: Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · The Blumenfeld Family Foundation · Granit Foundation · The Kahan Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Cross River Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · M D Katz Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc with peer funders
About Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc
- How much does Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc give?
- Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc reported 105 itemized grants totaling $9,452,851, out of $14,028,338 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 94 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (25%), Human Services (24%), Religion (21%).
- Who are Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Family & Children's Services of Northern New Jersey Inc ($6.5M), Jewish Community Center on the Palisades ($2.2M), The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus ($2.0M).
- Does Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fjc, Jewish Communal Fund, The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation.
- Where is Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc based?
- Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc is based in NJ.
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