New Jersey · Public charity
Legal Services of New Jersey Inc
To provide and promote free and affordable civil legal assistance, advocacy and justice for low-income people and communities in new jersey.
- $57M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,433,356
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $18,205,523
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $90M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Legal Services of New Jersey Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $57M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $53M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $44M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $34M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $29M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $26M | 10% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $23M | 22% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $20M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Jersey Legal Services Inc | $90,199,807 | 8 | 91% |
| Northeast New Jersey Legal Services Corporation | $67,367,546 | 8 | 92% |
| Central Jersey Legal Services Inc | $50,379,294 | 8 | 78% |
| Essex-Newark Legal Services Project Inc | $31,141,444 | 8 | 90% |
| Legal Services of Northwest Jersey Inc | $21,682,757 | 8 | 65% |
| American Friends Service Committee | $15,492,871 | 6 | n/a |
| Seton Hall University | $4,442,275 | 7 | 0% |
| Rutgers the State University | $3,775,179 | 7 | n/a |
| Community Health Law Project Inc | $2,241,966 | 8 | 5% |
| Advocates for Children of New Jersey | $47,383 | 8 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Legal Services of New Jersey Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 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: Legal Services Corporation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Legal Services of New Jersey Inc
- How much does Legal Services of New Jersey Inc give?
- Legal Services of New Jersey Inc reported 10 grants totaling $57,498,534 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Legal Services of New Jersey Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (100%), Human Services (0%).
- Who are Legal Services of New Jersey Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: South Jersey Legal Services Inc ($90M), Northeast New Jersey Legal Services Corporation ($67M), Central Jersey Legal Services Inc ($50M).
- Does Legal Services of New Jersey Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Legal Services of New Jersey Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Legal Services Corporation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Legal Services of New Jersey Inc based?
- Legal Services of New Jersey Inc is based in NJ.
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