How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in New Jersey?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in New Jersey, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Atlantic Foundation, The Prudential Foundation. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Jersey from out of state.

Who is the largest arts and culture funder in New Jersey?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in New Jersey, $38M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in New Jersey?

$493M reached 1,125 arts and culture organizations in New Jersey, from 2,046 funders. 46% came from funders also based in New Jersey.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · New Jersey · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in New Jersey

Arts and culture funding in New Jersey is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation leads, and the money reaches 1,125 groups.

$493M

granted

1,125

organizations

46%

from in-state

The short version

2,046 funders gave $493M to 1,125 arts and culture organizations in New Jersey across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
46% of that came from funders also based in New Jersey; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in New Jersey is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $38M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation, at $52M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in New Jersey

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in New Jersey, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$38M 2The Atlantic Foundation$36M 3The Prudential Foundation$29M 4Greater Kansas City Community Foundation$18M 5Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc$17M 6Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc$16M 7National Philanthropic Trust$16M 8Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$13M 9American Online Giving Foundation Inc$9M 10Community Foundation of New Jersey$8M

Arts and culture organizations in New Jersey that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,115 other arts and culture organizations$299M

New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation$52M

How to find arts and culture funders in New Jersey

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Start with the funders already active in New Jersey
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in New Jersey are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Atlantic Foundation, The Prudential Foundation. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
54% of arts and culture money in New Jersey comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New Jersey.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in New Jersey?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in New Jersey, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Atlantic Foundation, The Prudential Foundation. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Jersey from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in New Jersey?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in New Jersey, $38M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in New Jersey?: $493M reached 1,125 arts and culture organizations in New Jersey, from 2,046 funders. 46% came from funders also based in New Jersey.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.