New Jersey · Public charity
New Jersey Council For The Humanities
At njch we explore, cultivate, and champion the public humanities in order to strengthen new jersey's diverse community.
- $251k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $202k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 61
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations New Jersey Council For The Humanities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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 | 16 | $202k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $413k | 46% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $471k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $665k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $962k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $817k | 78% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $247k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $226k | 64% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| People and Stories Gente y Cuentos | $118,337 | 7 | 14% |
| The Whitesbog Preservation Trust Inc | $107,510 | 5 | 13% |
| Rutgers the State University | $98,827 | 3 | n/a |
| Historic Morven Inc | $80,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Truehart Productions | $79,419 | 4 | 82% |
| Roebling Main Gate Museum dba Roebling Museum | $74,500 | 4 | 8% |
| Colab Arts Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Passaic County Dept of Health | $64,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Perkins Center for the Arts | $61,740 | 4 | 2% |
| Talking Eyes Media Inc | $61,000 | 3 | 7% |
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Where it is load-bearing
New Jersey Council For The Humanities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 119 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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Oceanfirst Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation
How this is measured
Compare New Jersey Council For The Humanities with peer funders
About New Jersey Council For The Humanities
- How much does New Jersey Council For The Humanities give?
- New Jersey Council For The Humanities reported 16 itemized grants totaling $201,716, out of $251,166 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 61 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does New Jersey Council For The Humanities fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Education (16%), Community Improvement (4%).
- Who are New Jersey Council For The Humanities's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: People and Stories Gente y Cuentos ($118k), The Whitesbog Preservation Trust Inc ($108k), Rutgers the State University ($99k).
- Does New Jersey Council For The Humanities fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as New Jersey Council For The Humanities?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey.
- Where is New Jersey Council For The Humanities based?
- New Jersey Council For The Humanities is based in NJ.
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