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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 FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$410k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$12MCivil Rights$6.1MPublic Benefit$192kYouth Development$185kArts & Culture$123kFood & Nutrition$70kHuman Services$45kPhilanthropy$28k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $2,507,888, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,883,480 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $375,592 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$90,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
50CAN INC$410,000
GREAT OAKS LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL$305,000
TRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC$300,000
TEAM ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INCKIPP$200,000
THE PARTNERSHIP FOR WEST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL INC$190,138
MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION$175,450
NEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION$175,000
UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC$145,800
BRICK EDUCATION NETWORK$121,000
GREAT SCHOOLS FOR ALL INC$90,000
ROSEVILLE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL$80,000
NEW JERSEY CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING$75,000
PHILIPS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$70,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA - NEW JERSEY$50,000
SCHOOLS THAT CAN$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY: $25k → 16%GIRLS HELPING GIRLS PERIOD: $15k → 16%UNITED COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $7k → 16%WILLING HEART COMMUNITY CARE CENTER: $39k → 16%WILLING HEART COMMUNITY CARE CENTER: $31k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of New Jersey Children's Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

New Jersey Children's Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 25 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
22

Total granted

$17M
$797k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+20%

Still filing today

92%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $626k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GO
    GREAT OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +30%
  • 5I
    50CAN INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +841%
  • NEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMITTEE FOR SCHOOL EQUALITY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
  • PE
    PARENTS ENGAGING PARENTS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +2% · 59% of their budget
  • LE
    LATINO EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -47%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Philips Academy Charter School of Paterson

We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship, environmental…

Education
2
The Learning Community Charter School

The Learning Community Charter School is a Public School that is overseen by the NJ Department Of Education. The School offers an alternative academic program to assist children to discover their talents and provides a community resource…

Education
3
Jersey City Community Charter School

The mission of jersey city community charter school (jcccs) is to provide each student with innovative learning experiences that develop positive intellectual, social, and physical outcomes. jcccs is focused on promoting self-directed,…

Education
4
Lead Charter School Inc

The mission of lead charter is to help students ages 16-21 in grades 9-12 to master the essential skills crucial for success in post-secondary education, career and community leadership within a global society.

Education
5
Central Jersey College Prep Charter School

The mission of central jersey college preparatory charter school ("cjcp") is to provide academic and social challenges to students, while instilling in them the skills and knowledge that they will need to succeed in their future endeavors.…

Education
6
Thrive Charter School a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of Thrive Charter School is to empower students with knowledge, critical thinking skills, and a sense of civic responsibility, fostering their growth into confident, compassionate, and capable individuals prepared to thrive in…

Education
7
Unity Charter School

The unity charter school (ucs) was chartered by the new jersey department of education in january 1997 as the only charter school that had included a planning year prior to its opening. the charter school opened its doors to the first 60…

Education
8
Compass Academy Charter School

The mission of compass academy charter school is to increase each child's success in learning, and as a result, academic achievement. using the "let me learn process" as its innovative approach, the school leadership and teachers will help…

Education
9
Pta New Jersey Congress of Parents and Teachers

Child advocacy

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10
Ethical Community Charter School

The charter school is a new jersey public school overseen by the new jersey department of education. the charter school offers an academic program that encourages analytical thinking and creativity to help children.

Education
11
Jersey City Global Charter School

The jersey city global charter school (the "charter school") provides a full range of educational services for grades k to 7. these services include regular as well as special education and basic skills instruction.

Education
12
Greater Brunswick Charter School

The mission of the charter school is to provide students with an education of the highest standards that incorporate their individual interests and learning styles, and nurtures their intelectual, social, emotional and physical well-being…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marion P Thomas Charter School; the most unlike its peers is Results in Education Foundation Dba Brightbeam. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 55 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
28/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROJECT READY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $6,099,557 · EducationPROJECT READY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATIONGREAT OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL: $3,938,479 · EducationGREAT OAKS CHARTER SCHOOLBUILDING RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENT CREATIVE KIDS: $1,492,745 · EducationBUILDING RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENT CREATIVE KIDS50CAN INC: $1,185,000 · Education50CAN INCNEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION: $1,078,042 · EducationNEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATIONTRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC: $750,000 · EducationUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $608,300 · Education+20 more: $2,336,281 · Education+20 moreRESULTS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA BRIGHTBEAM: $199,000 · OtherLINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $155,814 · OtherCOMMITTEE FOR SCHOOL EQUALITY INC: $150,000 · OtherGREAT SCHOOLS FOR ALL INC: $90,000 · OtherJASMINE MORRISON DBA COMMUNE LLC: $42,450 · OtherSKYWAY PUBLISHING LLC: $40,000 · Other+9 more: $136,797 · OtherYouthBuild Newark Inc: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLASSROOTS INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEADERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSUNLIGHT POLICY CENTER OF NEW JERSEY: $152,000 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY GRANTMAKERS INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $8,000 · PhilanthropyThe Willing Heart Care Community Center Inc: $70,056 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY: $25,000 · Human ServicesBELIEVE IN NEWARK FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS HELPING GIRLS PERIOD: $15,000 · Human ServicesUnited Community Corporation: $7,000 · Human Services
Education$17,488,404Other$814,061Youth Development$195,000Philanthropy$180,000Human Services$140,056

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROJECT READY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $6,099,557 over 3y, 99% of budgetGREAT OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL: $3,938,479 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetBUILDING RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENT CREATIVE KIDS: $1,492,745 over 5y, 7.3% of budget50CAN INC: $1,185,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION: $1,078,042 over 7y, 11% of budgetTRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC: $750,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $608,300 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP TEAM AND FAMILY SCHOOLS INC: $371,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTEAM ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $310,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL: $245,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRESULTS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA BRIGHTBEAM: $199,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR WEST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL INC: $190,138 over 1y, 36% of budgetLINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $155,814 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetSUNLIGHT POLICY CENTER OF NEW JERSEY: $152,000 over 3y, 59% of budgetYouthBuild Newark Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetROSEVILLE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $105,073 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPARENTS ENGAGING PARENTS: $100,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetPHILIPS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $99,645 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF PEOPLES PREP INC: $92,570 over 3y, 11% of budgetGREAT SCHOOLS FOR ALL INC: $90,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLATINO EDUCATIONAL EQUITY: $75,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetNEW JERSEY CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING: $75,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY TUTORING CORPS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Willing Heart Care Community Center Inc: $70,056 over 2y, 18% of budgetWEST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $70,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetSchools That Can: $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL: $24,725 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWARK EDUCATORS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $24,275 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNewark Trust for Education Inc: $24,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetROBERT TREAT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $23,072 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL: $22,130 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $21,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY GRANTMAKERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGLASSROOTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLEADERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY: $20,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetGIRLS HELPING GIRLS PERIOD: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMARIA L VARISCO ROGERS CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Community Corporation: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Newark Charter School…Victoria Foundation I…The McJ Amelior Found…The Prudential Founda…Turrell FundSouth Ward AllianceNewark Arts CouncilDevils Care Foundatio…The Hyde and Watson F…City FundPseg Foundation Inc
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ46.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New Jersey Children's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Jersey Children's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation: 100% of income from government
  • United Community Corporation: 45% of income from government
  • YouthBuild Newark Inc: 27% of income from government
  • New Jersey Tutoring Corps Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Urban League of Essex County: 20% of income from government
  • Discovery Charter School: 11% of income from government
  • Team Academy Charter School Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Great Oaks Charter School: 9% of income from government
  • Glassroots Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Trio New College Network Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Kipp Team and Family Schools Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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