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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,688,817 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($774,813). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$4.3M
Revenue FY2025
25
Funders on record
$2.7M
Grants received
$7.5M
Net assets
15/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%

Against its field

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 363 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($5.6M)2018 Revenue 89 ($2.7M) Expenses 123 ($2.3M) Net assets 112 ($6.3M)2019 Revenue 81 ($2.4M) Expenses 123 ($2.3M) Net assets 113 ($6.3M)2020 Revenue 57 ($1.7M) Expenses 140 ($2.6M) Net assets 94 ($5.3M)2021 Revenue 92 ($2.8M) Expenses 91 ($1.7M) Net assets 127 ($7.1M)2022 Revenue 84 ($2.5M) Expenses 119 ($2.2M) Net assets 134 ($7.5M)2023 Revenue 105 ($3.2M) Expenses 132 ($2.4M) Net assets 144 ($8.1M)2024 Revenue 95 ($2.9M) Expenses 216 ($4.0M) Net assets 130 ($7.3M)2025 Revenue 144 ($4.3M) Expenses 220 ($4.0M) Net assets 133 ($7.5M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (220)Net assets (133)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,013 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.2M
17
$409k
18
$154k
19
$850k
20
$1.1M
21
$348k
22
$721k
23
$1.1M
24
$281k
25
3.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $89k → $189k.

12 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)75% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

79% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC.

29%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 38% · 2019 33% · 2020 50% · 2021 46% · 2022 37% · 2023 27%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

75% of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $660k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from New Jersey funders.

MN
IL
NY
PA
NJ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 25 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New Jersey

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 18%Fundraising 11%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • American Civil Liberties Union of Nj · exempt
  • American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · exempt
  • American Civil Liberties Union · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC?
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,688,817 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($774,813). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,688,817 in grants to AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $774,813 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - NJ FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing