New Jersey · Public charity
New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation
The new jersey civic information consortium exists to strengthen local news and ensure residents have access to reliable, community-focused information.
- $4.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $210,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 40
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $4.3M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $3.5M | 57% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $3.4M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $1.9M | 77% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $487k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montclair State University Foundation Inc | $848,109 | 5 | 2% |
| The Tiny News Collective Inc | $610,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Hopeloft a Nj Nonprofit Corporation | $465,490 | 5 | 19% |
| New Jersey Council For The Humanities | $459,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Movement Alliance Project | $443,300 | 5 | 2% |
| Colab Arts Inc | $430,431 | 4 | 34% |
| The Jersey Vindicator | $423,300 | 4 | n/a |
| Saint Peter's University | $380,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Education & Training Institute Inc | $375,000 | 3 | 25% |
| Resistencia en Accion New Jersey | $370,000 | 4 | 60% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montclair State University Foundation Inc | $848,109 | 5 | 2% |
| The Tiny News Collective Inc | $610,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Hopeloft a Nj Nonprofit Corporation | $465,490 | 5 | 19% |
| New Jersey Council For The Humanities | $459,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Movement Alliance Project | $443,300 | 5 | 2% |
| Colab Arts Inc | $430,431 | 4 | 34% |
| The Jersey Vindicator | $423,300 | 4 | n/a |
| Saint Peter's University | $380,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Education & Training Institute Inc | $375,000 | 3 | 25% |
| Resistencia en Accion New Jersey | $370,000 | 4 | 60% |
| Wnet | $350,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ridge View Echo | $330,000 | 3 | 80% |
| Civic News Company | $330,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Hammonton Gazette | $322,578 | 4 | n/a |
| Front Runner New Jersey | $313,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Clinton Hill Community Action Inc | $300,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Nj Urban News | $293,300 | 2 | n/a |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $277,931 | 2 | 0% |
| New Jersey Film Alliance a Nj Nonprofit Corporation Dba Industry Media Arts | $274,720 | 3 | 100% |
| Atlantic City Focus LLC | $260,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wnet | $253,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trenton Journal | $250,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Public Square Amplified | $240,000 | 2 | 58% |
| Rowan University | $225,067 | 4 | n/a |
| Nj State House News Service | $220,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Desi | $220,000 | 2 | n/a |
| States Newsroom | $210,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Black in Jersey | $190,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Movimiento Cosecha Support Network | $185,000 | 3 | 24% |
| Muslim | $185,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Institute for Nonprofit News | $180,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Camden Parent & Student Union | $180,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Corporation for New Jersey Local Media | $161,615 | 2 | 18% |
| Princeton Community Television | $145,000 | 2 | 94% |
| Watu Moja | $140,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Miles Media Foundation a Nj Nonprofit Corporation | $135,000 | 2 | n/a |
| New Jersey YMCA State Alliance Inc | $135,000 | 2 | 3% |
| New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc | $112,660 | 2 | 2% |
| Targum Publishing Company | $110,000 | 1 | 53% |
| Hudpost LLC | $105,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trustees of the Morristown Green Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 36% |
| Munsterpreneur Initiative | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Garden State Initiative Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cair Nj Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montclair Local Nonprofit News Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Parkside Business & Community in Partnership Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| N J Coalition to End Homelessness | $99,200 | 1 | 3% |
| Beyond Expectations Inc | $93,876 | 2 | n/a |
| Mercer Media LLC | $88,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Cranford Public Highschools | $86,498 | 2 | n/a |
| Asian American Journalists Association | $81,066 | 1 | 2% |
| Atlantic Cape Community College Foundati | $75,143 | 1 | 6% |
| Blairstown Enhancement Committee Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 64% |
| New Jersey Association for Mental Health | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Camden Fireworks Incorporated | $64,460 | 1 | 18% |
| Inside Climate News Inc | $62,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Datasourcenj Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Comite de Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agricolas Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lens15 Media | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Velvet Media LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Village Green Nj | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wayne Hills High School | $35,991 | 2 | n/a |
| Old Bridge Residents Inc | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts Society | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Artworks Trenton Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Power Shift Network | $34,930 | 1 | 3% |
| The Paterson Alliance Inc | $33,000 | 1 | 12% |
| The Two River Times Foundation | $31,879 | 1 | 2% |
| Healthy NewsWorks | $30,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The College of New Jersey Foundation Inc | $25,950 | 1 | 0% |
| Willingboro Community Development Corporation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Princeton Public Schools | $13,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Heady NJ LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tapinto - Fair Lawn - Glen Rock | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nj Pen | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kevco Media LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Latino Spirit Media | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 70and73 (Ewald Technology) | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aviator Publishing | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($140k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 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: 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
How this is measured
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About New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation
- How much does New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation give?
- New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation reported 47 grants totaling $4,396,752 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 40 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (40%), Arts & Culture (32%), Education (15%).
- Who are New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Montclair State University Foundation Inc ($848k), The Tiny News Collective Inc ($610k), Hopeloft a Nj Nonprofit Corporation ($465k).
- Does New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey, The Tiny News Collective Inc.
- Where is New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation based?
- New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation is based in NJ.
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