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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 FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.4MEducation$661kCommunity Improvement$163kCivil Rights$153kYouth Development$111kHuman Services$106kEnvironment$99kHealth$84kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $201,716, the rows itemized in this filing. The $251,166 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $49,450 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 $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $178k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
120 East State A NJ Nonprofit Corporation$15,000
Willingboro Community Development Corporation (WCD$15,000
Newark History Society$15,000
coLAB Arts Inc$15,000
Passaic County Department of Cultural & Historic A$15,000
Ritual4Return Inc$15,000
Preservation New Jersey$15,000
Stockton University$15,000
Asbury Park Music Project Inc$14,720
Piscataway Public Library$13,750
Bayard Rustin Center$10,000
Montclair Film Festival Inc$10,000
Monmouth Museum$10,000
Association of New Jersey Environmental Commission$9,921
CavanKerry Press$7,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $23k → 5%Hispanic Family Center of Southern New Jersey Inc: $15k → 12%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $15k → 5%NJ YMCA STATE ALLIANCE: $20k → 11%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $13k → 5%NJ YMCA STATE ALLIANCE: $15k → 11%RARITAN VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $13k → 8%WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR INC: $20k → 8%CLASSIS NEW BRUNSWICK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15k → 8%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 68 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
94

Total granted

$2.9M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+18%

Still filing today

81%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TW
    The Whitesbog Preservation Trust Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +56%
  • HISTORIC MORVEN INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $81k · revenue +64%
  • TP
    Truehart Productions
    4× · 2021–2024 · $79k · revenue +5% · 82% of their budget

Funded once

  • NEW CITY KIDS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -23%
  • MACCULLOCH HALL HISTORICAL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -25%
  • RU
    ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +51%
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
New Jersey Museum of Boating

Preserve and display New Jersey's rich boating history.

Arts & Culture
2
South Jersey Cultural Alliance

The South Jersey Cultural Alliance fosters an inclusive community of art, history, cultural organizations, artists and tradition bearers in the eight southern counties of New Jersey.

Arts & Culture
3
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…

Arts & Culture
4
Camden County Historical Society

Founded in 1899, the camden county historical society (cchs) is a public, non-profit organization dedicated to the collection, preservation, study, interpretation, and cultural enrichment of life in camden county and southern new jersey.

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5
Toms River Seaport Society

Public museum

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6
Atlantic County Historical Society

Organization promotes historical information for Atlantic County, New Jersey through a museum and library. The organization also owns a historical house which it provides tours.

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7
Old Barracks Association of Trenton New

Preserve the educational use of the old barracks for future generations and continue its historical collections.

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8
Guttenberg Arts a Nj Nonprofit Corp
Arts & Culture
9
Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society

To preserve the diverse history of cape may county for the education, enlightment and pleasure of present and future generations.

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10
Jersey County Historical Society

To collect and preserve data and historical items relating to the history of jersey county. to encourage historical and genealogical research. to publish material of historical nature.

Arts & Culture
11
New Jersey Alliance for Culture Change
Health
12
Newcomb Historical Museum

The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montclair Historical Society; the most unlike its peers is Vietnamese Boat People a Nj Nonprofit Co. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

131 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 131 of the 173 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
131/131
Grantees still filing
86/131
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEOPLE AND STORIES GENTE Y CUENTOS: $118,337 · Arts & CulturePEOPLE AND STORIES GENTE Y CUENTOSThe Whitesbog Preservation Trust Inc: $107,510 · Arts & CultureThe Whitesbog Preservation Trust IncHISTORIC MORVEN INC: $80,500 · Arts & CultureTruehart Productions: $79,419 · Arts & CultureRoebling Main Gate Museum dba Roebling Museum: $74,500 · Arts & CultureCOLAB ARTS INC: $65,000 · Arts & CulturePERKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $61,740 · Arts & CultureTALKING EYES MEDIA INC: $61,000 · Arts & Culture+58 more: $1,142,096 · Arts & Culture+58 moreRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $98,827 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYPassaic County Dept of Health: $64,000 · Other+80 more: $1,658,304 · Other+80 moreMIGHTY WRITERS: $55,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $51,645 · EducationRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $31,920 · EducationMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $29,924 · EducationCOUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS FOUNDATION: $20,165 · EducationROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationTHOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $19,974 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationLUNA STAGE COMPANY INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,400 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $51,088 · Human ServicesNEW JERSEY YMCA STATE ALLIANCE INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesWho is My Neighbor Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesClassis of New Brunswick Community DevelopmentCorp: $15,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC FAMILY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesRARITAN VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION: $13,410 · Human ServicesAlice Paul Institute Inc: $52,387 · Civil RightsBAYARD RUSTIN CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $35,000 · Civil RightsCASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsUNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC: $44,600 · Community ImprovementHAMILTON PARTNERSHIP FOR PATERSON INC: $35,000 · Community ImprovementREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC: $33,000 · Community ImprovementJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $30,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $19,625 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF OCEAN COUNTY: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$1,790,102Other$1,821,131Education$254,028Human Services$149,498Civil Rights$117,387Community Improvement$112,600Philanthropy$59,625

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEOPLE AND STORIES GENTE Y CUENTOS: $118,337 over 7y, 14% of budgetThe Whitesbog Preservation Trust Inc: $107,510 over 5y, 13% of budgetHISTORIC MORVEN INC: $80,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTruehart Productions: $79,419 over 4y, 82% of budgetRoebling Main Gate Museum dba Roebling Museum: $74,500 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetCOLAB ARTS INC: $65,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetPERKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $61,740 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTALKING EYES MEDIA INC: $61,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetVIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE A NJ NONPROFIT CO: $60,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetNJ VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $57,100 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $55,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAlice Paul Institute Inc: $52,387 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $51,645 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $51,088 over 3y, 12% of budgetHOBOKEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $50,600 over 2y, 10% of budgetVISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMonmouth County Historical Association: $49,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOGI INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC: $44,600 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetBLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INC: $44,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC: $44,050 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC: $42,901 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUKRAINIAN HISTORY AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $39,780 over 3y, 19% of budgetTRENT HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $38,240 over 3y, 31% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $35,940 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRAICES CULTURAL CENTER A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $35,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetBAYARD RUSTIN CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $35,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetWheaton Arts & Cultural Center Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW JERSEY YMCA STATE ALLIANCE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHAMILTON PARTNERSHIP FOR PATERSON INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSOUTHERN JERSEY FAMILY MEDICAL CENTERS INC: $34,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISLES INC: $34,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC: $33,720 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetThe Petey Greene Program Inc: $33,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC: $33,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALLAIRE VILLAGE INC: $33,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PRINCETON: $33,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $31,920 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $30,120 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMACCULLOCH HALL HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAIDS Resource Foundation for Children: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetELIZABETH YOUTH THEATER ENSEMBLE: $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% 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.

Princeton Area Commun…Geraldine R Dodge Fou…Community Foundation …Oceanfirst FoundationPseg Foundation IncThe Hyde and Watson F…Investors Foundation …Bristol-Myers Squibb …Citizens Philanthropi…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Robert Wood Johns…The Provident Bank Fo…
Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ94.9× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Council For The Humanities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Jersey Council For The Humanities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 310%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%
  • Ironbound Community Corporation: 100% of income from government
  • Returning Citizens Support Group: 100% of income from government
  • Montclair Historical Society: 67% of income from government
  • Legal Services of New Jersey Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Nasw Foundation: 51% of income from government
  • Alice Paul Institute Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Trenton Health Team Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Jazz House Kids Inc: 29% of income from government
  • The Petey Greene Program Inc: 29% of income from government
  • The Whitesbog Preservation Trust Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Perkins Center for the Arts: 24% of income from government
  • Bayshore Center at Bivalve Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Nimbus Dance Works Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Roebling Main Gate Museum dba Roebling Museum: 21% of income from government
  • Aapi Montclair Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Southern Jersey Family Medical Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Hoboken Historical Museum Inc: 18% of income from government
  • The Montclair Art Museum: 11% of income from government
  • Save Ellis Island Inc: 10% of income from government
  • New Jersey Orators Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Paper Mill Playhouse: 9% of income from government
  • Hamilton Partnership for Paterson Inc: 8% of income from government
  • People and Stories Gente Y Cuentos: 7% of income from government
  • The Morris Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Allaire Village Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Clinton Hill Community Action Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Colab Arts Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Grounds for Sculpture Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Ramapo College Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • New Jersey Ymca State Alliance Inc: 1% of income from government
  • American Littoral Society: 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
  • Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rowan University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • The College of New Jersey Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
31get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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 173 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home