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· Public charity

New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium Inc

To promote the wise use of new jersey's marine and coastal resources through research, education, and outreach.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$827k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Youth Development$5.5MScience & Tech$5.1MEducation$4.2MEnvironment$723kFood & Nutrition$60k
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $3,555,942, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,635,442 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $79,500 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 $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
$116,527
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY$826,668
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$634,126
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$382,840
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$319,974
COONAMESSETT FARM FOUNDATION$252,565
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY$153,066
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$149,080
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$144,257
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY$122,924
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIO$116,527
ROWAN UNIVERSITY$105,214
RARITAN VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$93,250
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY$66,507
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$66,251
DELAWARE ESTUARY$45,222
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 38% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COONAMESSETT FARM FOUNDATION: $338k → 8%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIO: $117k → 8%ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES: $121k → 22%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $144k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $204k → 17%RARITAN VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $93k → 5%MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $990k → 6%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $105k → 8%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $898k → 8%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $123k → 11%WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY: $153k → 12%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $634k → 14%NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $149k → 16%GEORGE MASON: $88k → 6%VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENC: $183k → 9%COONAMESSETT FARM FOUNDATION: $253k → 8%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIO: $117k → 8%ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES: $81k → 22%MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $827k → 6%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $804k → 8%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $407k → 14%NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $86k → 16%VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENC: $93k → 9%MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $186k → 6%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $720k → 8%THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $109k → 11%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $323k → 14%MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $168k → 6%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $698k → 8%THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $109k → 11%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $306k → 14%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $383k → 22%MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $120k → 6%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $608k → 8%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $188k → 14%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $185k → 22%MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $113k → 6%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $605k → 8%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $157k → 14%MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $106k → 6%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $544k → 8%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $149k → 14%MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY: $127k → 16%MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $81k → 6%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $320k → 8%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $105k → 14%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $305k → 8%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $71k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
VA
MD
DE
LA
AL
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 22 repeat orgs$476k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
4

Total granted

$15M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+2%

Still filing today

59%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $331k 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
EducationScience & TechEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MU
    MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +5%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +74%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $609k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • UA
    UNIVERSITY ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $51k · revenue +2%
  • OC
    OCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE - BARNEGAT BAY PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $42k
  • KU
    KEAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
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
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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7
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
10
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
11
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
12
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology; the most unlike its peers is East Coast Shellfish Growers Assoc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,501,635 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $410,935 · OtherGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITYNJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $364,555 · OtherMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY: $274,816 · OtherTHE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $272,151 · Other+11 more: $839,853 · Other+11 moreMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $2,607,035 · EducationMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INCTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2,340,538 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOL…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $608,700 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN: $379,342 · EducationVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN+7 more: $723,406 · Education+7 moreCOONAMESSETT FARM FOUNDATION INC: $590,852 · EnvironmentPARTNERSHIP FOR THE DELAWARE ESTUARY INC: $132,175 · EnvironmentTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: $288,046 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $233,054 · Science & TechEAST COAST SHELLFISH GROWERS ASSOC: $59,918 · Food & Nutrition
Other$7,663,945Education$6,659,021Environment$723,027Science & Tech$521,100Food & Nutrition$59,918

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $2,607,035 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2,340,538 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $608,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOONAMESSETT FARM FOUNDATION INC: $590,852 over 2y, 12% of budgetVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN: $379,342 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: $288,046 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $233,054 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $203,959 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRaritan Valley Community College: $175,907 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $162,069 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE DELAWARE ESTUARY INC: $132,175 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $75,092 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST COAST SHELLFISH GROWERS ASSOC: $59,918 over 4y, 21% of budgetUNIVERSITY ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $50,812 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $49,539 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $6,028 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COONAMESSETT FARM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN ↗
  • Who funds THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Raritan Valley Community College ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE DELAWARE ESTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds EAST COAST SHELLFISH GROWERS ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗

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.

American Chemical Soc…The Nature ConservancyFolds of Honor Founda…University of DelawareMid Atlantic Arts IncNational Fish and Wil…New Jersey Council Fo…Drexel UniversityFidelity Investments …
American Chemical SocietyDC21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · The Nature Conservancy · Folds of Honor Foundation · University of Delaware · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · New Jersey Council For The Humanities · Drexel University · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Sea Grant Consortium Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Coonamessett Farm Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Raritan Valley Community College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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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