How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in New Jersey?

Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in New Jersey, currently New Jersey Children's Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Prudential Foundation. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Jersey from out of state.

How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in New Jersey?

$80M reached 182 civil rights and advocacy organizations in New Jersey, from 454 funders. 44% 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 · Civil rights and advocacy

Who funds civil rights and advocacy in New Jersey

$80M reached 182 civil rights and advocacy organizations in New Jersey, from 454 funders, with no single one dominating.

$80M

granted

182

organizations

44%

from in-state

The short version

454 funders gave $80M to 182 civil rights and advocacy organizations in New Jersey across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
44% of that came from funders also based in New Jersey; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of civil rights and advocacy in New Jersey is New Jersey Children's Foundation, at $6M.
The civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Inc, at $17M.

Largest funders of civil rights and advocacy in New Jersey

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

1New Jersey Children's Foundation$6M 2The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation$4M 3The Prudential Foundation$4M 4Kpmg US Foundation Inc$4M 5Fund for New Jersey$4M 6New Venture Fund$4M 7Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$4M 8Hamilton Foundation Inc$2M 9American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$2M 10Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc$2M

Civil rights and advocacy organizations in New Jersey that draw the most

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

172 other civil rights and advocacy organizations$28M

The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Inc$17M Project Ready a Nj Nonprofit Corporation$8M The Phd Project Association$7M Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N$4M

How to find civil rights and advocacy funders in New Jersey

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Start with the funders already active in New Jersey
The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy in New Jersey are New Jersey Children's Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Prudential Foundation. A funder already writing civil rights and advocacy checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the civil rights and advocacy 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
56% of civil rights and advocacy money in New Jersey comes from funders elsewhere, so national civil rights and advocacy funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New Jersey.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in New Jersey?: Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in New Jersey, currently New Jersey Children's Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Prudential Foundation. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Jersey from out of state.
Who is the largest civil rights and advocacy funder in New Jersey?: New Jersey Children's Foundation gives the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in New Jersey, $6M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in New Jersey?: $80M reached 182 civil rights and advocacy organizations in New Jersey, from 454 funders. 44% 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.