· Public charity
New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation
The purpose of the consortium is to advance research and innovation in the field of media and technology to benefit the state's civic life and evolving information needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k16 grants · $202k
- $50k–250k28 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPELOFT INC | $205,490 |
| EDUCATION & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC | $205,000 |
| MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY | $166,979 |
| PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED | $135,000 |
| THE JERSEY VINDICATOR | $135,000 |
| COLAB ARTS | $130,431 |
| THE RIDGE VIEW ECHO | $130,000 |
| SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY | $120,000 |
| FRONT RUNNER NEW JERSEY | $120,000 |
| BLACK IN JERSEY | $120,000 |
| NJ COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND JOURNALISM DESIGN | $120,000 |
| TRENTON JOURNAL | $120,000 |
| UNIDAD LATINA EN ACCIN NJ | $120,000 |
| NJ ALLIANCE FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE | $117,931 |
| NJ URBAN NEWS | $110,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $704k · revenue +157%- NJNew Jersey Council For The Humanities2× · 2022–2024 · $459k · revenue +1%
- TTThe Tiny News Collective Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $440k · revenue +251%
Funded once
- WWNETone grant, 2023 · $253k
- PBPARKSIDE BUSINESS & COMMUNITY IN PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -35%
- NJN J COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESSone grant, 2023 · $99k · revenue -44%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.
New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.
To help develop the next generation of journalists, informed citizens, and to promote the importance of free press in our democracy. significant programs include journalism internships, scholarships, newspapers-in-education (nie), and…
The organization is non-profit organization working to build and sustain local news and ensure that local news organizations across new england are supported with the kinds of tailored problem-solving, training and partnerships they need…
New jersey institute for social justice (the institute), a public charity, is a newark-based urban research and advocacy organization dedicated to the advancement of new jersey's urban areas and residents.
The purpose of the consortium is to advance research and innovation in the field of media and technology to benefit the state's civic life and evolving information needs.
The new york newspaper publishers association is a trade association which provides information and technical assistance to the newspaper industry and related organizations.
Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.
Citizens news guild educates the public by publishing non-partisan state and local news.
To advance member interests, operational and environmental excellence, science,education, and community outreach in New Jersey.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is N J Coalition to End Homelessness and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the Morristown Green Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Council For The Humanities ↗
- Who funds The Tiny News Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPELOFT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COLAB ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Resistencia en Accion New Jersey ↗
- Who funds SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RIDGE VIEW ECHO ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HILL COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC NEWS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY FILM ALLIANCE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION DBA INDUSTRY MEDIA ARTS ↗
- Who funds Movimiento Cosecha Support Network ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY YMCA STATE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Targum Publishing Company ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE MORRISTOWN GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds PARKSIDE BUSINESS & COMMUNITY IN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds N J COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Tiny News Collective Inc · Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Fund for New Jersey · Partners for Health Inc · New Jersey Council For The Humanities · Institute for Nonprofit News · Pseg Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Jersey Council for the Humanities — 100% of income from government
- Hopeloft a Nj Nonprofit Corporation — 60% of income from government
- The Education & Training Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc — 9% of income from government
- Artworks Trenton Inc — 8% of income from government
- Clinton Hill Community Action Inc — 6% of income from government
- Colab Arts Inc — 6% of income from government
- New Jersey Ymca State Alliance Inc — 1% of income from government
- Saint Peter's University — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation?
Find your warmest path to New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.