New Jersey · Nonprofit
ASPIRA INC OF NEW JERSEY
ASPIRA INC OF NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $627,810 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($310,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $830k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $628k
- Net assets
- $191k
What Aspira Inc of New Jersey does
Mission
Aspira Inc of New Jersey develops the intellectual and creative capacity of puerto rican and other youth in their community
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Work readiness program: assist out of work clients with development of basics job search techniques & acquisition of soft skills needed to find and secure employment.
$85,826 spent9% of program spendingEducation leadership development including,21st century: successfully served over 300 kids in luis munoz marin and rafael hernandez elementary schools during the academic year in fill stem programming for grades 4 to 8. Provided scholarships to 10 kids for attending college,expanded aspira clubs to more schools including barringer high school and technology high school. Expanded programming to now include a partnership with newark public schools and program for parents to offer services to the pre k and k children at luis munoz marin, avon ave and luis a spenscer school
$478,113 spent47% of program spendingProvided job serach asssitance to over 100 clients who received public assistance through essex county citizen services. Serviced over 450 children through out summer program, providing them with many fun and educational activities throuhgout the summer at mckinley elementary and elliot street school.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThis is comprehensive support service that are provided to help children and families meet their needs by providing safe nature and support systems throughout different agencies and program within the state of NJ. Those programs are: Juvenile Justice Program, ASPIRA Fitness Boxing Program, Family Success Center, among others.
$444,272 spent44% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,008,211.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $2.5M (+134%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 88% · 2019 80% · 2020 95% · 2021 83% · 2022 74% · 2023 92% · 2024 92% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Carlos Valentin Jr
Executive director
Board chair
Fernando Acevedo Jr
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $210k → $38k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ASPIRA INC OF NEW JERSEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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
ASPIRA INC OF NEW JERSEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 64% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 79% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
88% of ASPIRA INC OF NEW JERSEY'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. $147 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is 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.
Organizations like ASPIRA INC OF NEW JERSEY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Aspira Association Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASPIRA INC OF NEW JERSEY: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASPIRA INC OF NEW JERSEY?
- ASPIRA INC OF NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $627,810 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($310,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASPIRA INC OF NEW JERSEY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $627,810 in grants to ASPIRA INC OF NEW JERSEY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASPIRA INC OF NEW JERSEY?
- THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASPIRA INC OF NEW JERSEY 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing