· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOMERVILLE BOROUGH | $20,000 |
| MAPLEWOOD TOWNSHIP | $20,000 |
| HOWELL TOWNSHIP | $20,000 |
| HAINESPORT TOWNSHIP | $20,000 |
| LAMBERTVILLE CITY | $20,000 |
| BELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP | $20,000 |
| ROSA INTERNATIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NORTH BRUNSWICK TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LEAP ACADEMY UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| JOTHAM W WAKEMAN PS #6 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BELMAR BOROUGH | $10,000 |
| FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NUMBER 21 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FANNY M HILLERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HILLSIDE HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
Educational advancement
Provide grants to bloomfield, nj public schools, teachers and students. provide scholarships to bloomfield high school graduates.
To promote the welfare of students and foster relationships between parents, teachers and students
Grants for education
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
Educational/charitable
Operation of a nursery school
EducationalCharitable
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 241 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sustainable Jersey funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sustainable Jersey. Bigger dots raise more.
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