· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $250k+9 grants · $57M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES | $18,205,523 |
| NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES | $13,409,726 |
| CENTRAL JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES | $10,141,759 |
| ESSEX-NEWARK LEGAL SERVICES | $5,127,942 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY | $4,433,356 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE | $3,840,448 |
| RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,062,646 |
| SETON HALL | $934,876 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH LAW PROJECT | $335,798 |
| ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY | $6,460 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SJSOUTH JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $90M · revenue +122% · 91% of their budget
- NNNORTHEAST NEW JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $67M · revenue +27% · 92% of their budget
- CJCENTRAL JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $50M · revenue +137% · 78% of their budget
Funded once
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.
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.
To provide and promote free and affordable civil legal assistance, advocacy and justice for low-income people and communities in new jersey.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SOUTH JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX-NEWARK LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH LAW PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Legal Services of New Jersey Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Legal Services of New Jersey Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Health Law Project Inc: 69% of income from government
- Central Jersey Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- Legal Services of Northwest Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
- Northeast New Jersey Legal Services Corporation: 2% of income from government
- Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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