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Sustainable Jersey
SUSTAINABLE JERSEY's mission is to empower new jersey communities to build a better world for future generations with the tools, training, technical assistance, and financial incentives necessary to pursue critical sustainability initiatives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $370,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $587,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $217,500 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAPLEWOOD TOWNSHIP | $20,000 |
| BELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP | $20,000 |
| HAINESPORT TOWNSHIP | $20,000 |
| HOWELL TOWNSHIP | $20,000 |
| SOMERVILLE BOROUGH | $20,000 |
| LAMBERTVILLE CITY | $20,000 |
| FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NUMBER 21 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FANNY M HILLERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ROSS STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ROSA INTERNATIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FAIRMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| EZRA L NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SOMERSET COUNTY VOCATIONAL & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NUTLEY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
72 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TRTOMS RIVER REGIONAL SCHOOLS5× · 2018–2023 · $75k
- CCCAMDEN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT3× · 2019–2021 · $60k
- COCITY OF LAMBERTVILLE3× · 2019–2025 · $60k
Funded once
- LBLEONIA BOROUGHone grant, 2019 · $30k
- KEKENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $22k
- MHMontclair Health Deptone grant, 2024 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Educational advancement
To promote the welfare of students and foster relationships between parents, teachers and students
Grants for education
Provide grants to bloomfield, nj public schools, teachers and students. provide scholarships to bloomfield high school graduates.
To raise funds for scholarships awarded to graduating seniors of jackson township (nj) high school planning to further their education.
Benefit Teachers and Students of school
Child advocacy
EducationalCharitable
Operation of a nursery school
School and student support
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leap Academy University Charter School and the most unlike its peers is Millburn Township Co-Op Nursery School. 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.
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.
10 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. 10 of the 241 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: New Jersey Health Officers Association · The Leary Firefighters Foundation · Family Health Initiatives Inc · Partners for Health Inc · Digital Promise Global · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · National Arbor Day Foundation · New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund · Delta Dental of New Jersey Foundation Inc · National Recreation and Park Association · Save the Music Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey
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 Sustainable Jersey 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.