New Jersey · Public charity
New Jersey Conservation Foundation
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on schedule o)rural, suburban, and urban landscapes. Since 1960, the nonprofit, nonpartisan, statewide…
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $27,488
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,023,366
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $68M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations New Jersey Conservation Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $1.6M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $967k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $995k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $2.1M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $1.4M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $2.9M | 13% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $2.5M | 50% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $4.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rethink Energy Nj a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation | $8,187,134 | 8 | 100% |
| Upstream Alliance Inc | $2,459,316 | 5 | 73% |
| Eastern Environmental Law Center Inc | $1,336,365 | 8 | 53% |
| Morris County | $1,150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Save Hamilton Open Space | $395,450 | 1 | n/a |
| Pinelands Preservation Alliance | $332,391 | 8 | 6% |
| South Jersey Land & Water Trust Inc | $218,499 | 4 | 19% |
| Rancocas Conservancy Inc | $185,500 | 2 | 26% |
| American Littoral Society | $151,081 | 1 | 6% |
| Hunterdon Land Trust | $132,812 | 2 | 11% |
Show all 32 grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
New Jersey Conservation Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 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: The William Penn Foundation · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Pseg Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Environmental Endowment for New Jersey Inc · Victoria Foundation Inc · New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare New Jersey Conservation Foundation with peer funders
About New Jersey Conservation Foundation
- How much does New Jersey Conservation Foundation give?
- New Jersey Conservation Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $1,620,383 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does New Jersey Conservation Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (81%), Housing & Shelter (14%), Education (3%).
- Who are New Jersey Conservation Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rethink Energy Nj a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation ($8.2M), Upstream Alliance Inc ($2.5M), Eastern Environmental Law Center Inc ($1.3M).
- Does New Jersey Conservation Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as New Jersey Conservation Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey.
- Where is New Jersey Conservation Foundation based?
- New Jersey Conservation Foundation is based in NJ.
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