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New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

Dedicated to protecting our precious natural resources by elevating the importance of environmental issues in public discourse and increasing the efficacy of the entire environmental community.

$246k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of NEW JERSEY LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $233,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $246,001 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,501 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NJ LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS$175,000
NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION$7,500
ANJEC$7,500
PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE$7,500
CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION$7,500
NJ FUTURE$7,500
HEART OF CAMDEN$7,500
RUTGERS COOPERATIVE EXTENSION$7,500
AMERICAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS INSTITUTE$6,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10k → 22%AMERICAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS INSTITUTE: $22k → 14%CITY OF LAMBERTVILLE: $63k → 4%ANJEC: $15k → 4%RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSN: $8k → 5%TOWN OF WILLINGBORO: $50k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $23k → 8%NJLCV: $85k → 11%TOWN OF HAMMONTON: $20k → 11%HEART OF CAMDEN: $8k → 12%CITY OF HOBOKEN: $10k → 14%MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS: $10k → 6%NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS: $15k → 17%AMERICAN SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION FUND: $17k → 14%RARITAN HEADWATERS: $11k → 5%WILLINGBORO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%FEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES: $50k → 11%CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION: $8k → 12%AMERICAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%ANJEC: $19k → 4%RARITAN HEADWATERS: $10k → 5%PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $20k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $15k → 8%NJ FUTURE: $79k → 11%COOPER'S FERRY PARTNERSHIP: $8k → 12%ANJEC: $17k → 4%PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $20k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $15k → 8%NJ ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $15k → 11%ANJEC: $15k → 4%PINELANDS PRESERVATION: $20k → 7%RUTGERS COOPERATIVE EXTENSION: $8k → 8%ANJEC: $15k → 4%PINELANDS PRESERVATION: $20k → 7%ANJEC: $8k → 4%PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $18k → 7%NY NJ BAYKEEPER: $10k → 8%PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $10k → 7%PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $8k → 7%THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE: $8k → 11%NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION: $24k → 4%NJ ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $10k → 11%NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION: $24k → 4%NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION: $20k → 4%NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION: $20k → 4%NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITON: $15k → 4%NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION: $10k → 4%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 13 repeat orgs$253k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$1.4M
$238k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+31%

Still filing today

77%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • FO
    FEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES DBA NJ LEAGUE OF CONS VOTERS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $385k · revenue +15%
  • NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $368k · revenue +130%
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $123k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF LAMBERTVILLE
    one grant, 2024 · $63k
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • TO
    TOWN OF HAMMONTON
    one grant, 2023 · $20k

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
Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Inc

Conserve wildlife foundation of new jersey works to preserve rare and at-risk wildlife in new jersey through field science, habitat restoration, education, and public engagement.

Animals
2
Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc

The mission of hackensack riverkeeper is to protect, preserve, and restore the hackensack river watershed and its living resources. hackensack riverkeeper fights for clean water, open space preservation, and public access to the river for…

Environment
3
Ridge and Valley Conservancy Inc

Ridge and valley conservancy is an accredited land trust that, in cooperation with strategic partners, permanently protects and stewards land in northwestern new jersey for the benefit of natural communities.

Environment
4
Eastern Environmental Law Center Inc

Legal assistance to nonprofit organizations working to solve environmental problems that threaten the people, natural resources and communities in the new jersey and tri-state region.

Environment
5
Canal Society of New Jersey
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6
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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7
New Jersey Water Environment Association

Non profit educational organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing the water environment.

Environment
8
Earthshare New Jersey Inc

Connect businesses, nonprofits and individuals to protect and restore new jersey's natural environment, assuring a better quality of life for all.

Philanthropy
9
New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

Dedicated to protecting our precious natural resources by elevating the importance of environmental issues in public discourse and increasing the efficacy of the entire environmental community.

Environment
10
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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11
Save Barnegat Bay Inc

Our mission is to restore and protect barnegat bay and its ecosystem. we advance our mission by being a strong and independent voice for the bay throughout the watershed, including all of ocean and part of monmouth counties. we do this…

Environment
12
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Dba Nj League of Cons Voters and the most unlike its peers is New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance. 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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr12%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr19%4%20–35yr14%53%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
11%
5,163/46,081

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

23 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. 23 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES DBA NJ LEAGUE OF CONS VOTERS — $385,000 · OtherFEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES DBA NJ LEAGUE OF CONS VOTERSNEW JERSEY FUTURE INC — $368,300 · OtherNEW JERSEY FUTURE INCRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY — $80,000 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYCITY OF LAMBERTVILLE — $63,400 · OtherCITY OF LAMBERTVILLECITY OF CAMDEN DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES — $62,000 · OtherTOWN OF WILLINGBORO — $59,804 · OtherNEW JERSEY LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $50,000 · Other+10 more — $104,240 · Other+10 moreNEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION — $122,500 · EnvironmentNEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITIO…PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE — $117,500 · EnvironmentPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIAN…ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS — $96,500 · EnvironmentASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENV…RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION — $28,000 · EnvironmentRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATIO…New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — $27,500 · EnvironmentNew Jersey Environmental Just…+9 more — $42,000 · Environment+9 moreAmerican Sustainable Business Institute Inc — $37,500 · Community ImprovementISLES INC — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterFOOD & WATER WATCH — $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,172,744Environment$434,000Community Improvement$37,500Housing & Shelter$7,500Food & Nutrition$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES DBA NJ LEAGUE OF CONS VOTERS — $385,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetNEW JERSEY FUTURE INC — $368,300 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetNEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION — $122,500 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE — $117,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS — $96,500 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetAmerican Sustainable Business Institute Inc — $37,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION — $28,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRARITAN BAYKEEPER INC — $12,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetISLES INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNew Jersey Audubon Society — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE JERSEY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Geraldine R Dodge Fou…Pseg Foundation IncThe William Penn Foun…Community Foundation …Duke Farms FoundationFund for New JerseyVictoria Foundation I…Investors Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…Environmental Endowme…United States Energy …New Jersey Conservati…
Geraldine R Dodge Foundation IncNJ32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Duke Farms Foundation · Fund for New Jersey · Victoria Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Environmental Endowment for New Jersey Inc · United States Energy Foundation · New Jersey Conservation 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 League of Conservation Voters Education Fund 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 · 50%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
  • Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
  • The Heart of Camden Inc — 41% of income from government
  • New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — 39% of income from government
  • Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
  • Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
  • New Jersey Future Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
  • New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund?

Find your warmest path to New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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