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

Start with the funders already giving to employment in New Jersey, currently Tides Center, Rural Capital Area Workforce Development Board, Construction Industry Advancement Program. Then look at who funds the employment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Jersey from out of state.

Who is the largest employment funder in New Jersey?

Tides Center gives the most to employment organizations in New Jersey, $63M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to employment in New Jersey?

$214M reached 227 employment organizations in New Jersey, from 429 funders. 20% 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 · Employment

Who funds employment in New Jersey

Most of it comes from outside New Jersey: only 20% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$214M

granted

227

organizations

20%

from in-state

The short version

429 funders gave $214M to 227 employment organizations in New Jersey across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
20% of that came from funders also based in New Jersey; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of employment in New Jersey is Tides Center, at $63M.
The employment organization drawing the most is Oneten Coalition Inc, at $83M.

Largest funders of employment in New Jersey

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

1Tides Center$63M 2Rural Capital Area Workforce Development Board$58M 3Construction Industry Advancement Program$8M 4The Northrop Grumman Foundation$6M 5Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$4M 6National Automatic Sprinkler Industry Apprentice & Training Fund$3M 7Community Options Inc$3M 8Kessler Foundation Inc$3M 9Unite Here$3M 10Occupational Training Center of Burlington County Inc$3M

Employment organizations in New Jersey that draw the most

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

Oneten Coalition Inc$83M Neighborhood Center Inc$58M

217 other employment organizations$39M

How to find employment funders in New Jersey

1
Start with the funders already active in New Jersey
The funders giving the most to employment in New Jersey are Tides Center, Rural Capital Area Workforce Development Board, Construction Industry Advancement Program. A funder already writing employment checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the employment 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
80% of employment money in New Jersey comes from funders elsewhere, so national employment funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New Jersey.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a employment nonprofit in New Jersey?: Start with the funders already giving to employment in New Jersey, currently Tides Center, Rural Capital Area Workforce Development Board, Construction Industry Advancement Program. Then look at who funds the employment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Jersey from out of state.
Who is the largest employment funder in New Jersey?: Tides Center gives the most to employment organizations in New Jersey, $63M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to employment in New Jersey?: $214M reached 227 employment organizations in New Jersey, from 429 funders. 20% 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.