How do I find funders for a education nonprofit in New Jersey?

Start with the funders already giving to education in New Jersey, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, National Philanthropic Trust. Then look at who funds the education organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Jersey from out of state.

Who is the largest education funder in New Jersey?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to education organizations in New Jersey, $329M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to education in New Jersey?

$2.9B reached 2,431 education organizations in New Jersey, from 5,679 funders. 24% 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 · Education

Who funds education in New Jersey

Most of it comes from outside New Jersey: only 24% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$2.9B

granted

2,431

organizations

24%

from in-state

The short version

5,679 funders gave $2.9B to 2,431 education organizations in New Jersey across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
24% of that came from funders also based in New Jersey; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of education in New Jersey is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $329M.
The education organization drawing the most is The Trustees of Princeton University, at $970M.

Largest funders of education in New Jersey

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$329M 2Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$174M 3National Philanthropic Trust$113M 4Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc$104M 5Silicon Valley Community Foundation$96M 6Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$72M 7National Collegiate Athletic Association$70M 8City Fund$61M 9Jewish Communal Fund$50M 10Golda Och Academy Foundation$40M

Education organizations in New Jersey that draw the most

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

2,421 other education organizations$1.3B

The Trustees of Princeton University$970M Rutgers University Foundation$220M

How to find education funders in New Jersey

1
Start with the funders already active in New Jersey
The funders giving the most to education in New Jersey are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, National Philanthropic Trust. A funder already writing education checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the education 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
76% of education money in New Jersey comes from funders elsewhere, so national education funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New Jersey.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a education nonprofit in New Jersey?: Start with the funders already giving to education in New Jersey, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, National Philanthropic Trust. Then look at who funds the education organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Jersey from out of state.
Who is the largest education funder in New Jersey?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to education organizations in New Jersey, $329M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to education in New Jersey?: $2.9B reached 2,431 education organizations in New Jersey, from 5,679 funders. 24% 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.