New Jersey · Public charity
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.
- $588k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $370k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Sustainable Jersey funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $370k | 52% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $380k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $340k | 74% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $116k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $340k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $418k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $496k | 83% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $519k | 86% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Environment$1.4MEducation$1.4MCommunity Improvement$230kPublic Benefit$166kArts & Culture$115kRecreation & Sports$50kScience & Tech$20kAnimals$5kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toms River Regional Schools | $75,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Camden City School District | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Lambertville | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Jersey City Board of Education | $55,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Somerville Borough | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Municipality of Princeton | $47,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Jackson Township Board of Education | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Winslow Township School District | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Jersey City Health Dept | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Holland Township School District | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toms River Regional Schools | $75,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Camden City School District | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Lambertville | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Jersey City Board of Education | $55,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Somerville Borough | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Municipality of Princeton | $47,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Jackson Township Board of Education | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Winslow Township School District | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Jersey City Health Dept | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Holland Township School District | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Township of Howell | $35,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hoboken Health Dept | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Leonia Borough | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Caldwell Borough | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bloomfield Health Dept | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Elizabeth Health Dept | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lawrence Township Board of Ed | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hawthorne Borough | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| woodbine borough | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Montgomery Health Dept | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Chatham Borough Police Dept | $29,949 | 2 | n/a |
| Maplewood Health Dept | $29,274 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Vineland | $27,815 | 2 | n/a |
| Edison Health Dept | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Clinton Town | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| West Orange Public Schools | $25,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Readington Township Public School Distric | $25,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Woodbridge Township School District | $25,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Belleville Township | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kennedy Elementary School | $22,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montclair Health Dept | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Leonia Public School District | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Trenton | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trenton Board of Education | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Township of Evesham | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hopewell Valley Regional Sd | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Cove Road Elementary School | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Delaware Township School District | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Middlesex County Vocational & Technical | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| East Greenwich Township | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Verona Township | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Stillwater Township Elementary School | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Point Pleasant Beach High School | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Flemington-Raritan Regional School District | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Burlington City Athletic Association Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Franklin Township Public School | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Free Public Library of the Borough of Madison | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Collingswood Borough | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hainesport Township | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Franklin Elementary School | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Malcolm X Shabazz High School | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Asbury Park City | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hackensack Board of Education | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tinton Falls Borough | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Franklin Township (2) | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Egg Harbor City | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Galloway Twp | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Orange | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Office of Dental ServicesPaterson | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Franklin Township | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tewksbury Twp | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Ocean City | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Avalon Nj | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Holmdel Township | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Red Bank | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ocean Township | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| middletown township | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Haddon Twp | $17,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Ocean Township Intermediate Middle School | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Westfield Health Dept | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Howell Township Middle School South | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Manchester Twsp School District | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Christopher Columbus Middle School | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Warren Township | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Fair Haven Borough | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Spring Lake Heights School | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sparta Township | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| High Bridge Borough | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Jersey City Economic Development Corp | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The School District of South Orange | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wayne Hills High School | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Passaic | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| north plainfield school district | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Madison High School Ptso a New Jersey Non Profit Corporation | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Essex County School of Technology | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lake Como Borough | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Roselle Park Borough | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Holland Township | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pittsgrove Township School District | $12,580 | 1 | n/a |
| Township of South Orange Village | $11,516 | 2 | n/a |
| Milltown School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bogota School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Upper Township Elementary School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maple Shade Township | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Vineland Board of Education | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maurice River Township School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ocean Township High School Band Parent Association | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Penns Grove High School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Atlantic City Health Dept | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| East Amwell Township Elementary School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hillside High School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Milford Borough | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Orange Health Dept | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Belmar Borough | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Delran High School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Barrington | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Middle Township Devico Senior Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Long Branch Board of Education | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| NBTHS Robotics | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gateway Regional High School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The City of Long Branch | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Voorhees Township (V) | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Weymouth Township Elementary School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Summit | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Toms River Regional Schools Technology Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Woodbridge Township | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Deal Borough School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nutley Public School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pleasantville City | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Leap Academy University Charter School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Town of Hammonton | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Roselle Board of Education | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South River Broough | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hopatcong Borough | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| High Bridge Borough School Dist (2) | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pinelands Regional School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Washington Township School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mercer County Technical School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| toms river township | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Collingswood Borough | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| East Windsor | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Garwood Fire Department | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hopewell Health Dept | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ventnor City (V) | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Raritan Township | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Brunswick Board of Education | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| middle township public school district | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ringwood Health Dept | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Roseville Community Charter School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Millburn Fire Dept | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wildwood City Board of Education | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rosa International Middle School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Glen Rock | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| High Point Regional High School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Township of Hamilton | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lower Cape May Regional High School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Franklin Township | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Franklin Township Elementary School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mahwah Township | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Florence M Burd Elementary School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ocean City Intermediate School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Waterford Township | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oakland Borough | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brick Township Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Township of Stafford | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Wildwood City | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clifton Health Dept | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Manasquan School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Pitman | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Monmouth County Vocational School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Knowlton Township Elementary School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Park Ridge Borough | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Middletown Township Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Manville Borough | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| park ridge | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mark Newbie Elementary School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Township of Mahwah Youth Sports Boosters Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Somerset County Vocational & Technical High School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cape May County Special Services School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Parsippany-Troy Hills Township | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| township of readington | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Winfield Township School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Camden Department of Human Services | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Harding Township Board of Education | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| highland park borough | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Garfield City | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lincoln Elementary School - Hasbrouck | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Rumson | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Plainsboro Free Public Library | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bridgewater Township | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clayton Public School District | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| pennsauken township school district | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Village of Ridgefield Park | $6,177 | 1 | n/a |
| Township of Monroe | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wildwood High School Alumni & Friends Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Township of Hamilton Police Department | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| mount arlington public elementary school | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| black horse pike regional school district | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bordentown City Cats Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 29% |
| township of pennsauken | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Township of Hanover | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medford Township | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| lakewood Middle School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Maywood | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oradell Free Public Library Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 21% |
| linwood city | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| bayonne high school | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Denville Twp Social Services | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Bergenfield Nj | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sayreville Borough | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cape May Police Department | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Paterson Health Dept | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Belleville Board of Education | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Edison Board of Education | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Glen Ridge Boro | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mount Olive Health Dept | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bergenfield Board of Education | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arts Society of Keyport a Nj Nonprofit Corporation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kinnelon Borough (V) | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Copeland Middle School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Windsor Health Dept | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wall Township Public School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| john brainerd Elementary School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Westwood Regional School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Millburn Township Co-Op Nursery School | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Middlesex County School Nurses Association | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Margate | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oldmans Township School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pompton Lakes Community Partnership | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cape May Technical School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Washington Township Police Department | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Bergen Health Dept | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| tabernacle elementary school | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Island Heights | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Jersey Education Association | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Highland Park Board of Education | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mount Laurel Police Department | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South Plainfield High School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| southampton township | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Township of Wyckoff | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bellmawr Public School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| estell manor city school district | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| bellmawr borough | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Manasquan High School Endowment and Alumni Fund | $5,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Metuchen Board of Education | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montclair Public Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Penns Grove-Carneys Point Reg Sch Dist | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| hope township | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Sustainable Jersey supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.
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.
New Jersey Health Officers AssociationNJ57.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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
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.
About Sustainable Jersey
- How much does Sustainable Jersey give?
- Sustainable Jersey reported 31 itemized grants totaling $370,000, out of $587,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sustainable Jersey fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (43%), Education (40%), Community Improvement (7%).
- Who are Sustainable Jersey's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Toms River Regional Schools ($75k), Camden City School District ($60k), City of Lambertville ($60k).
- Does Sustainable Jersey fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sustainable Jersey?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Jersey Health Officers Association, The Leary Firefighters Foundation, Family Health Initiatives Inc.
- Where is Sustainable Jersey based?
- Sustainable Jersey is based in NJ.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home