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New Jersey State Bar Foundation

The mission of the organization is to: - foster an increased awareness, appreciation and knowledge of law and the legal system among new jersey residents; - serve as the statewide resource for law-related education for the public; - provide opportunities for lawyers to serve the public through the foundation's programs; and - foster…

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$2.5MCrime & Legal$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.2MHuman Services$683kHealth$555kPublic Benefit$446kCivil Rights$198kPhilanthropy$86kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $519k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rutgers Law School$1,515,484
Seton Hall Law Clinics$422,446
Make the Road NJ$208,000
CHLP Protecting Public Entitlements$150,000
Volunteer Lawyers for Justice$129,729
Covenant House New Jersey$121,000
Autism New Jersey$106,000
Fair Share Housing Center$102,600
Eagleton Institute$100,000
Disability Rights New Jersey$53,000
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)$50,000
NJ LEEP$50,000
Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of NJ$45,000
Statewide Parent Advocacy Network (SPAN)$41,000
Latin American Legal Defense and Edu Fund$40,000
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 (FY17–25, $841k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of New Jersey: $45k → 5%Family Promise of Sussex County: $10k → 6%Puerto Rican Assn for Human Rights Development: $10k → 8%Covenant House New Jersey: $65k → 11%Oasis -- A Haven for Women and Children: $20k → 12%Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of NJ: $45k → 5%Covenant House New Jersey: $65k → 11%Oasis -- A Haven for Women and Children: $20k → 12%Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of NJ: $40k → 5%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 11%Oasis -- A Haven for Women and Children: $16k → 12%PLANNED LIFETIME ASSISTANCE NETWORK OF NJ: $30k → 5%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 11%Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of NJ: $30k → 5%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 11%PLANNED LIFETIME ASSISTANCE NETWORK OF NJ: $30k → 5%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $7k → 11%PLANNED LIFETIME ASSISTANCE NETWORK OF NJ: $25k → 5%Women Aware: $10k → 8%PLANNED LIFETIME ASSISTANCE NETWORK OF NJ: $25k → 5%Crossroads4Hope: $26k → 5%Crossroads4Hope: $20k → 5%YMCA of Metuchen: $10k → 8%Covenant House New Jersey: $121k → 16%Covenant House New Jersey: $65k → 16%YMCA NEWARK: $31k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.6M · 26 repeat orgs$382k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
8

Total granted

$6.6M
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+3%

Still filing today

96%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $294k 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
Human ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsEducationPublic BenefitHealthOther

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

  • SH
    SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +58%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $398k · revenue +34%
  • CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $396k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • RL
    Rutgers Law School
    one grant, 2024 · $21k
  • RT
    RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
  • PR
    Puerto Rican Association For Human Development Incorporated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%

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
Central Jersey Legal Services Inc

Provides free legal assistance in non-criminal proceedings or matters to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance in mercer county, middlesex county, and union county, new jersey

Crime & Legal
3
South Jersey Legal Services Inc

South jersey legal services, inc. is a non-profit organization created to provide quality legal representation and advocacy to low-income individuals in atlantic, burlington, camden, cape may, cumberland, gloucester, monmouth, ocean and…

Crime & Legal
4
Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Jersey Inc

Promoting, assisting and supporting the sustainability and growth of casa programs in new jersey. casa programs promote the protection of abused and neglected children by using trained volunteers to advocate for these children in courts…

Crime & Legal
5
Legal Services of New Jersey Inc

To provide and promote free and affordable civil legal assistance, advocacy and justice for low-income people and communities in new jersey.

Crime & Legal
6
New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc

Promotes empowerment of low and middle income people through research, education, and training around public policy issues and direct counseling services.

Public Benefit
7
Advocates for Children of New Jersey

To identify children's needs through research, policy and legal analysis, to raise awareness of those needs through strategic communications, and to work with elected officials and other decision-makers to enact effective responses.

Human Services
8
New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault

The New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NJCASA) is driven by a mission to support all survivors of sexual violence, their loved ones, and the service providers who support them.

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9
New Jersey Policy Perspective

New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.

Arts & Culture
10
Bergen County Bar Association Inc

Furtherance of jurisprudence

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11
Essex-Newark Legal Services Project Inc

Enls provides free legal assistance on civil law matters to low income essex county, new jersey residents.

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12
New Jersey Civil Justice Reform Institute Inc

The new jersey civil justice institute (the "institute") is the state's leading organization advocating for the business community on matters of law and legal policy. the institute promotes a fair and predictable civil justice system, and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Northern New Jersey and the most unlike its peers is Meadowbrook Family and Faculty Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDisability Services Organiz…Disability Services Organiz…Affordable Housing Developm…Jewish Community Philanthro…Community Mental Health Ser…Hospital Systems and Health…Performing Arts CentersProfessional Trade Associat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr11%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr18%41%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr11%24%55yr+

The field is 23% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
12%
3,706/29,855

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

45 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. 45 of the 48 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
24/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CAMDEN — $1,932,451 · OtherRUTGERS LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CAMDENSETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $1,264,905 · OtherSETON HALL UNIVERSITYAUTISM NEW JERSEY INC — $222,653 · OtherSTATEWIDE PARENT ADVOCACY NETWORK INC — $167,250 · Other+19 more — $643,151 · Other+19 moreCOVENANT HOUSE — $398,200 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUS…PLANNED LIFETIME ASSISTANCE NETWORK OF NEW JERSEY — $270,390 · Human ServicesPLANNED LIFET…OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $56,250 · Human ServicesOASIS - A HAV…CROSSROADS4HOPE — $45,600 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS4HO…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWARK & VICINITY — $31,000 · Human Services+4 more — $39,950 · Human ServicesNJ LEEP Inc — $325,000 · EducationNJ LEEP I…RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $245,000 · EducationRUTGERS U…+1 more — $7,000 · EducationVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN — $137,729 · Crime & LegalKIND INC — $130,000 · Crime & LegalLATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC — $128,000 · Crime & LegalDISABILITY RIGHTS NEW JERSEY A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $88,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $6,550 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $395,700 · Public BenefitGI Go Fund Inc — $35,000 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITY HEALTH LAW PROJECT INC — $395,500 · HealthSHORE CLUBHOUSE INC — $22,000 · HealthCAIR NJ INC — $47,896 · Civil RightsSALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N — $22,200 · Civil RightsPUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER OF NJ INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · Civil Rights
Other$4,230,410Human Services$841,390Education$577,000Crime & Legal$490,279Public Benefit$430,700Health$417,500Civil Rights$103,096

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 budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $1,264,905 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $398,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $395,700 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH LAW PROJECT INC — $395,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetNJ LEEP Inc — $325,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetPLANNED LIFETIME ASSISTANCE NETWORK OF NEW JERSEY — $270,390 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $245,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM NEW JERSEY INC — $222,653 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSTATEWIDE PARENT ADVOCACY NETWORK INC — $167,250 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN — $137,729 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKIND INC — $130,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC — $128,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetYWCA NORTHERN NEW JERSEY — $104,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS NEW JERSEY A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $88,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $67,211 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $56,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetESSEX COUNTY LEGAL AID ASSOCIATION INC — $53,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetMeadowbrook Family and Faculty Association — $50,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetCAIR NJ INC — $47,896 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCROSSROADS4HOPE — $45,600 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGI Go Fund Inc — $35,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPUSHCART PLAYERS INC — $34,500 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWARK & VICINITY — $31,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHORE CLUBHOUSE INC — $22,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MONMOUTH COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE ARC OF NEW JERSEY INC — $19,190 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF NEW JERSEY — $15,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetJosephine's Place Inc — $14,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST NJ A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORP — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF METUCHEN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPuerto Rican Association For Human Development Incorporated — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN AWARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYMCA of Metuchen — $9,950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARAWAKAN INC — $9,685 over 1y, 20% of budgetEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION — $6,550 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF MIDDLESEX & MONMOUTH COUNTIES A NJ NONPROFIT CORP — $5,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHunterdon County Bar Association — $5,800 over 1y, 11% 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 …Investors Foundation …Citizens Philanthropi…Pseg Foundation IncColumbia Bank Foundat…The Hyde and Watson F…Oceanfirst FoundationThe Provident Bank Fo…Geraldine R Dodge Fou…Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Prudential Founda…Td Charitable Foundat…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ40.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Prudential Foundation · Td Charitable 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 State Bar Foundation 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 · 160%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Statewide Parent Advocacy Network Inc — 72% of income from government
  • Community Health Law Project Inc — 69% of income from government
  • Disability Rights New Jersey a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation — 64% of income from government
  • Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N — 52% of income from government
  • Autism New Jersey Inc — 44% of income from government
  • Women Aware Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Ywca Northern New Jersey — 42% of income from government
  • Family Promise of Sussex County Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Pushcart Players Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in — 9% of income from government
  • Ywca of Eastern Union County Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Shore Clubhouse Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Clinton Hill Community Action Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities Diocese of Metuchen — 3% of income from government
  • CROSSROADS4HOPE — 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.

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How do I get to New Jersey State Bar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to New Jersey State Bar Foundation 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 48 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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