New Jersey · Nonprofit
Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc
Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,052,518 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,500,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $9.6M
What Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc does
Mission
The organization provides educational and enrichment activities to over 1,500 youths ages 5 to 18 through year-round programs that focus on healthy lifestyles, academic success, college and career prep, and character development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
After School Programs: The Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County have two communitycenters and (8) School based sites that provide after-school programing (ASP). Weserve over 600 youth and high school students a day with educational, enrichment and social programs in licensed centers. Each day students are assisted with homework help, academic enrichment, and healthy living activities such as cooking, gardening and sports. We work on developing students social emotional learning aptitudes and preparing them for their future career path. Each day we provide a healthy snack, weekend food backpacks and dinner meals at several of our sites. The Clubs provide over $2 million in ASP scholarships to area families to ensure no youth is turned away based on ability to pay.
$3,470,056 spent$2,189,766 earned by the program71% of program spendingSummer Camp: The Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County offer a variety of summer campoptions for 450 Mercer County Youth ages 5 to 15 years old. Camps offer weekly fieldtrips to area attractions, swimming, art, STEM, cooking, outdoor education, sportsand supplemental educational activities to reduce summer learning loss. The 10-weekcamp curriculum emphasizes building students social emotional learning aptitudes tofurther their successful youth development. Each day campers received breakfast,lunch, and snacks to ensure youth dont go hungry during the summer. A bus transportation loop is provided around the greater Trenton area to our camp locations to ensure access. Each year we provide more than $1 million of financial aid to ensure no child is denied access due to ability to pay.
$786,286 spent$691,505 earned by the program16% of program spendingEnrichment Programs: The Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County offers a wide variety of enrichment programs in academics, STEM, health, arts, career exploration, leadership development and athletics are provided year-round to various age groups. Community service is a big component of the Club experience, as our kids learn to support and strengthen their communities by giving back. Each Saturday area youth participate in structured enrichment programs, or drop-in for one-time activities and workshops. Area teens can drop-in to enrichment programs 30 hours each week and have a selection of 3-4 activities each hour. We provide bussing from local high schools, and home each night to ensure teen access. We provide a daily snack and evening meal program. Each year the Club provides over 175,000 meals and snacks.
$496,177 spent10% of program spendingGrants to Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Foundation, a not-for-profit organization whos mission is to provide support to the Organization.
$126,837 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,879,356.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $8.6M to $10M (+20%).
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: 2017 19% · 2018 20% · 2019 20% · 2020 17% · 2021 38% · 2022 19% · 2023 26% · 2024 25% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Reginald Coleman
President & CEO
Board chair
Michael Ruger
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $372k → $718k.
17 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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: $91k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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
Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 34% · 2019 33% · 2020 18% · 2021 21% · 2022 84% · 2023 13% — 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
49% of Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
69% of Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County 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 $3.1M that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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
- Boys & Girls Clubs Mercer Cty Fdn · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County 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 Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc?
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,052,518 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,500,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $10,052,518 in grants to Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 75 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing