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

Start with the funders already giving to science in New Jersey, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Johns Hopkins University, Ieee Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the science organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Jersey from out of state.

Who is the largest science funder in New Jersey?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to science organizations in New Jersey, $37M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to science in New Jersey?

$332M reached 73 science organizations in New Jersey, from 443 funders. 14% 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 · Science

Who funds science in New Jersey

Most of it comes from outside New Jersey: only 14% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here. Funding is concentrated: Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation alone draws 47% of every science grant dollar in New Jersey.

$332M

granted

organizations

14%

from in-state

The short version

443 funders gave $332M to 73 science organizations in New Jersey across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
14% of that came from funders also based in New Jersey; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of science in New Jersey is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $37M.
The science organization drawing the most is Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation, at $157M.

Largest funders of science in New Jersey

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$37M 2Johns Hopkins University$36M 3Ieee Foundation Inc$20M 4Jewish Communal Fund$17M 5The Simons Foundation Inc$16M 6Gates Foundation$15M 7Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$11M 8The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York$11M 9Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc$9M 10Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc$9M

Science organizations in New Jersey that draw the most

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

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation$157M The Trustees of Princeton University$91M Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc$23M Liberty Science Center$17M

63 other science organizations$13M

How to find science funders in New Jersey

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Start with the funders already active in New Jersey
The funders giving the most to science in New Jersey are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Johns Hopkins University, Ieee Foundation Inc. A funder already writing science checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the science 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
87% of science money in New Jersey comes from funders elsewhere, so national science funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New Jersey.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a science nonprofit in New Jersey?: Start with the funders already giving to science in New Jersey, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Johns Hopkins University, Ieee Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the science organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Jersey from out of state.
Who is the largest science funder in New Jersey?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to science organizations in New Jersey, $37M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to science in New Jersey?: $332M reached 73 science organizations in New Jersey, from 443 funders. 14% 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.