New Jersey · Public charity
New Jersey Education Association
The mission of the NEW JERSEY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION is to advance and protect the rights, benefits, and interests of members, and promote a quality system of public education for all students.
- $12M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $11M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $8,534,061
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 48
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $271M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations New Jersey Education Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 17 | $11M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $12M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $8.7M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $14M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $15M | 28% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $5.5M | 27% |
| FY2017 | 48 | $7.9M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden State Forward | $55,582,549 | 8 | n/a |
| New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning | $5,000,000 | 8 | 51% |
| Education Law Center Inc | $3,990,250 | 8 | 32% |
| The College of New Jersey Foundation Inc | $2,004,217 | 8 | 5% |
| Sustainable Jersey | $1,750,000 | 8 | 12% |
| New Jersey Policy Perspective | $1,315,000 | 8 | 14% |
| Work Environment Council of New Jersey Inc | $420,720 | 6 | 15% |
| Njea Frederick L Hipp Foundation for Excellence in Education | $380,100 | 7 | 29% |
| New Jersey Working Families Alliance Corp | $345,500 | 5 | 19% |
| America's Agenda Health Care for All | $250,000 | 6 | 7% |
Show all 69 grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($596k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
New Jersey Education Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Oceanfirst Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation
How this is measured
About New Jersey Education Association
- How much does New Jersey Education Association give?
- New Jersey Education Association reported 17 itemized grants totaling $11,260,191, out of $11,963,840 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does New Jersey Education Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (76%), Education (16%), Community Improvement (3%).
- Who are New Jersey Education Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Garden State Forward ($56M), New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning ($5.0M), Education Law Center Inc ($4.0M).
- Does New Jersey Education Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as New Jersey Education Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Oceanfirst Foundation, Investors Foundation Inc.
- Where is New Jersey Education Association based?
- New Jersey Education Association is based in NJ.
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