New Jersey · Nonprofit
BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION
BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,059,146 to it, the largest being THE TOWNSEND FOUNDATION INC ($477,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- The University of the Artsshared funders
- The Lois Lenski Covey Foundationportfolio match
- Reading Is Fundamental Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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: 2022 9% · 2023 21%. 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 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $25k → $172k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION’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
BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 69% · 2022 57% · 2023 70% — 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
83% of BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 52% 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
66% of BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION'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. $212k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
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 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The University of the Artsshared fundersPA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- The Lois Lenski Covey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reading Is Fundamental Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cepreghy Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Book Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montclair Fund for Women Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foxx Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mordecai & Elinor Gabriel Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vert Charitable Trust UA 12222011shared fundersPA · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Incshared fundersPA · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
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 BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$25k
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 BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION
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
91% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION: 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 BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
- BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,059,146 to it, the largest being THE TOWNSEND FOUNDATION INC ($477,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,059,146 in grants to BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
- THE TOWNSEND FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $477,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 23funders 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