New Jersey · Public charity
New Jersey Children's Foundation
The NEW JERSEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION's mission is to invest in people, programs, and partnerships that will improve public education systems by putting the interests of children first.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $410,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 27
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations New Jersey Children's Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 | 19 | $2.5M | 37% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $2.6M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $5.1M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $4.5M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $1.9M | 57% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $1.7M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $434k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Ready a Nj Nonprofit Corporation | $6,099,557 | 3 | 99% |
| Great Oaks Charter School | $3,938,479 | 7 | 5% |
| Building Responsible Intelligent Creative Kids | $1,492,745 | 5 | 7% |
| 50can Inc | $1,185,000 | 5 | 1% |
| New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation | $1,078,042 | 7 | 11% |
| Trio New College Network Inc | $750,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Uncommon Schools Inc | $608,300 | 7 | 0% |
| Kipp Team and Family Schools Inc | $371,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Team Academy Charter School Inc | $310,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Marion P Thomas Charter School | $245,000 | 2 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
New Jersey Children's Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Newark Charter School Fund Inc · Victoria Foundation Inc · The McJ Amelior Foundation · The Prudential Foundation · Turrell Fund · South Ward Alliance · Newark Arts Council · Devils Care Foundation Inc F/K/A New Jersey Devils Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · City Fund · Pseg Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About New Jersey Children's Foundation
- How much does New Jersey Children's Foundation give?
- New Jersey Children's Foundation reported 20 itemized grants totaling $2,507,888, out of $2,883,480 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does New Jersey Children's Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (64%), Civil Rights (33%), Public Benefit (1%).
- Who are New Jersey Children's Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Project Ready a Nj Nonprofit Corporation ($6.1M), Great Oaks Charter School ($3.9M), Building Responsible Intelligent Creative Kids ($1.5M).
- Does New Jersey Children's Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as New Jersey Children's Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Newark Charter School Fund Inc, Victoria Foundation Inc.
- Where is New Jersey Children's Foundation based?
- New Jersey Children's Foundation is based in NJ.
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