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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,388,213 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,576,232). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$3.5M
Revenue FY2024
48
Funders on record
$7.4M
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
27/48 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC's revenue grew 87% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,925 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($180k)2018 Revenue 125 ($2.3M) Expenses 113 ($1.8M) Net assets 372 ($672k)2019 Revenue 90 ($1.7M) Expenses 131 ($2.1M) Net assets 126 ($227k)2020 Revenue 107 ($2.0M) Expenses 118 ($1.9M) Net assets 167 ($302k)2021 Revenue 162 ($3.0M) Expenses 131 ($2.1M) Net assets 661 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 248 ($4.6M) Expenses 196 ($3.2M) Net assets 1453 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 145 ($2.7M) Expenses 200 ($3.3M) Net assets 1143 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 187 ($3.5M) Expenses 216 ($3.5M) Net assets 1133 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (187)Expenses (216)Net assets (1133)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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 27% · 2018 30% · 2019 58% · 2020 9% · 2021 16% · 2022 8% · 2023 20% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,026 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$236k
17
$491k
18
$445k
19
$75k
20
$891k
21
$1.4M
22
$558k
23
$19k
24
2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $204k → $2.9M.

14 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)59% 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 AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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 ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

69% 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 ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC.

35%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 45% · 2019 30% · 2020 27% · 2021 22% · 2022 62% · 2023 80%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

59% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

59% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY 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 $3.0M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 8 states.

ID
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
FL

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

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18
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20
21
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23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states 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.

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 48 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 ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES 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

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 3%Fundraising 14%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

69%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES 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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Questions and answers

Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC?
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,388,213 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,576,232). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC have?
IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $7,388,213 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES 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 ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,576,232 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES 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 48funders 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