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New Jersey · Nonprofit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON (New Jersey) is funded by 36 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $6,197,257 in grants to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,501,372). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON is better cushioned than half of the 1,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,688 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 35%. Grants only — government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$35k from 2 funders in 2025, up from $44k and 3 in 2017.
11 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. Association, not causation.
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 72%; 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 80% · 2018 42% · 2019 33% · 2020 30% · 2021 29% · 2022 68% · 2023 81% · 2024 39% · 2025 99% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
56% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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.
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 36 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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
83% of spending goes to programs.
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is 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 36funders 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. view filing