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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $943,373 to it, the largest being FUND FOR NEW JERSEY ($424,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 363 civil rights nonprofits its size.
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.
- Lily Auchincloss Foundation Incshared funders
- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Incportfolio match
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizationsportfolio match
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.
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.
93% of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $400 → $372k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $823k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Civil Liberties Union Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY 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 OF NEW JERSEY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 93% · 2021 77% · 2022 60% · 2023 59% — 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
86% of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
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
62% of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Lily Auchincloss Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Just Trust for Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grand Lodge International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unite Hereportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Nurses Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Office and Professional Employees International Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leadership Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Int Union United Auto National Community Action Programportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clcportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $671k on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$671k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- ACLU - Nj Foundation · exempt
- American Civil Liberties Union · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY 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.
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 OF NEW JERSEY INC?
- AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $943,373 to it, the largest being FUND FOR NEW JERSEY ($424,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $943,373 in grants to AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC?
- FUND FOR NEW JERSEY is the largest funder on record, with $424,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY 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 13funders 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