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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 FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$8.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$56MEducation$12MCommunity Improvement$2.1MSocial Science$1.3MArts & Culture$1.1MHealth$471kEmployment$421kCivil Rights$347kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $11,260,191 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,963,840 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $703,649 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $695k
  • $250k+5 grants · $11M
$60,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$271M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GARDEN STATE FORWARD$8,534,061
NJ CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING$750,000
EDUCATION LAW CENTER$585,000
THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC$389,130
SUSTAINABLE JERSEY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION$250,000
NJ POLICY PERSPECTIVE INC$210,000
NJ COMMISSION ON HOLOCAUST EDUCATION$175,000
NJEA MEMBER BENEFIT TRUST$100,000
FREDERICK L HIPP FOUNDATION$60,000
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NJ FOUNDATION INC$50,000
NJ HALL OF FAME$50,000
TEEN ARTS NEW JERSEY$50,000
GARDEN STATE EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND INC$15,000
THE NEA FOUNDATION$12,000
INSPIRING LIFE TOGETHER$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NJ: $15k → 12%Society for Prevention of Teen Suicide INC: $5k → 6%ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY: $7k → 16%NJ Coalition for Inclusive Ed: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$73M · 33 repeat orgs$463k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
37

Total granted

$73M
$343k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+35%

Still filing today

70%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • EL
    EDUCATION LAW CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +96% · 32% of their budget
  • SJ
    SUSTAINABLE JERSEY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +49%
  • New Jersey Policy Perspective
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +82%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PATERSON AND PASSAIC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +64%
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +81%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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2
Pta New Jersey Congress of Parents and Teachers

Child advocacy

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3
Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey
Philanthropy
4
Pta New Jersey Congress of Parents & Teachers

To promote the welfare of students and foster relationships between parents, teachers and students

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5
New Jersey Association of School Business Officials

The mission of New Jersey Association for School Business officials (NJASBO) is to promote the highest standards of ethics and efficiency, provide its membership with professional development and support, and collaborate with entities that…

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6
New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation

To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.

Education
7
Chemistry Council of New Jersey

To advance member interests, operational and environmental excellence, science,education, and community outreach in New Jersey.

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8
New Jersey Council of County Colleges

To perform statewide coordinating functions for New Jerseys community colleges and develop community-college led partnerships and solutions to expand educational and economic opportunity.

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9
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.

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10
New Jersey Alliance for Culture Change
Health
11
League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

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12
New Jersey State Nurses Association

Work for the improvement of health standards and the availability of healthcare services for all people; foster high standards of nursing; stimulate and promote the professional development of nurses; advance the economic and general…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advocates for Children of New Jersey and the most unlike its peers is Nea Member Benefits Relief Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr13%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%44%10–20yr18%12%20–35yr15%42%35–55yr13%1%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/76
the rest of the field
12%
5,169/41,940

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/65
Grantees still filing
39/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GARDEN STATE FORWARD — $55,582,549 · OtherGARDEN STATE FORWARD+47 more — $2,486,770 · OtherNEW JERSEY CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING — $5,000,000 · EducationNEW JERSEY CENTER…EDUCATION LAW CENTER INC — $3,990,250 · EducationEDUCATION LAW CEN…THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC — $2,004,217 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF NE…+8 more — $192,000 · EducationSUSTAINABLE JERSEY — $1,750,000 · EnvironmentNew Jersey Policy Perspective — $1,315,000 · Arts & CultureTEEN ARTS NEW JERSEY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $235,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $23,750 · Arts & CultureNJEA FREDERICK L HIPP FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION — $380,100 · Employment+1 more — $10,000 · EmploymentNEW JERSEY WORKING FAMILIES ALLIANCE CORP — $345,500 · Community ImprovementBLUEWAVENJ A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $17,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTH CARE FOR ALL — $250,000 · HealthPush To Walk a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation — $20,000 · HealthLEAD INC — $12,500 · HealthINSPIRING LIFE TOGETHER — $10,000 · Health
Other$58,069,319Education$11,186,467Environment$1,750,000Arts & Culture$1,573,750Employment$390,100Community Improvement$362,500Health$292,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW JERSEY CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING — $5,000,000 over 8y, 51% of budgetEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC — $3,990,250 over 8y, 32% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC — $2,004,217 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetSUSTAINABLE JERSEY — $1,750,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetNew Jersey Policy Perspective — $1,315,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetWORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY INC — $420,720 over 6y, 15% of budgetNJEA FREDERICK L HIPP FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION — $380,100 over 7y, 29% of budgetNEW JERSEY WORKING FAMILIES ALLIANCE CORP — $345,500 over 5y, 19% of budgetAMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTH CARE FOR ALL — $250,000 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetTEEN ARTS NEW JERSEY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $235,000 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetNJEA MEMBER BENEFIT FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $80,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION — $77,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE OF NEW JERSEY INC — $63,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCONSERVE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC — $50,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGARDEN STATE EQUALITY EDUCATIONAL FUND — $48,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetGreat Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice — $40,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC — $31,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PATERSON AND PASSAIC INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPush To Walk a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE DRUMTHWACKET FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATLANTIC CITY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEA MEMBER BENEFITS RELIEF FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBLUEWAVENJ A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $17,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN NEW JERSEY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWOMEN OF THE DREAM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGLSEN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY BLACK ISSUES CONVENTION — $15,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetLEAD INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINSPIRING LIFE TOGETHER — $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFreedom Fest State Fair Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetThe Friends of Jean Webster Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMud Girls Studios a NJ non profit Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBOTTO HOUSE AMERICAN LABOR MUSEUM INC — $8,750 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCENTER FOR HOLOCAUST HUMAN RIGHTS & GENOCIDE EDUCATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY — $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK OF NEW JERSEY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGI Go Fund Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBAYARD RUSTIN CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNETWORK FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Anti-Poverty Network of New Jersey Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetStatewide Educational Organizing Committee Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 29% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Oceanfirst FoundationInvestors Foundation …Princeton Area Commun…New Jersey Natural Ga…Citizens Philanthropi…Pseg Foundation IncColumbia Bank Foundat…Boys & Girls Clubs of…Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Robert Wood Johns…Henry & Marilyn Taub …
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ30.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization New Jersey Education Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Statewide Parent Advocacy Network Inc — 72% of income from government
  • Crossroads of the American Revolution Association Inc — 62% of income from government
  • Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Work Environment Council of New Jersey Inc — 13% of income from government
  • New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Lead Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The College of New Jersey Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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