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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,001,287 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($2,786,183). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.3M
Revenue FY2024
45
Funders on record
$6.0M
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
27/45 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($754k)2018 Revenue 99 ($1.2M) Expenses 109 ($1.1M) Net assets 113 ($851k)2020 Revenue 213 ($2.6M) Expenses 193 ($1.9M) Net assets 217 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 197 ($2.4M) Expenses 210 ($2.1M) Net assets 253 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 390 ($4.8M) Expenses 267 ($2.7M) Net assets 526 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 262 ($3.2M) Expenses 294 ($3.0M) Net assets 589 ($4.4M)2024 Revenue 274 ($3.3M) Expenses 312 ($3.1M) Net assets 607 ($4.6M)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (274)Expenses (312)Net assets (607)

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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 10% · 2020 10% · 2021 10% · 2022 6% · 2023 10% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$208k
17
$97k
18
$656k
20
$275k
21
$2.1M
22
$221k
23
$189k
24
18
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $152k → $698k.

9 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)42% 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: $124k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rwj Barnabas Health Inc - Subordinates). These are real filings, and they are not money BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC raised.

From the IRS filings of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

91% 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC.

46%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 69% · 2019 63% · 2020 59% · 2021 80% · 2022 70% · 2023 70%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.

How long its funders stay

47% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY 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

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 9 states in all.

ME
VT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
DE
FL

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

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18
19
20
21
22
23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M 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 45 funders put you typical 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 5%Fundraising 9%

Governance

30
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

NJ

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN 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.

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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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC?
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,001,287 to it, the largest being Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($2,786,183). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC have?
IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $6,001,287 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC?
Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America is the largest funder on record, with $2,786,183 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 45funders 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