New Jersey · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK (New Jersey) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,077,127 to it, the largest being International Rescue Committee INC ($34,801,812). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $-7073976
What Catholic Charities of the Arcdiocese of Newark does
Mission
Provide social services to needy families and individuals
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rehabilitation programs that evaluate, diagnosis and work to ameliorate handicapping conditions through providing individualized educational and rehabilitative plans and services for the physically, visually, speech/hearing and emotionally impaired clients including substance abusers. Placements in vocational skills training and supervised work experience helps to promote a return to gainful employment for chronically disabled, placement in sheltered workshop environment provides a special supervised work experience. The programs help enhance socialization for the visually impaired, promoting independent functioning fto their maximum capacity, and/or speech-language therapy and aural rehabilitation to communication disordered clients.
$10,447,723 spent23% of program spendingYouth family youth and families are offered a range of services to address issues related to the needs of the family throughout the life cycle. These include special educatiional schools for the neurologically impaired and emotionally disturbed children and youth. Professional assessment and counseling services for dhildren, parents and family, child day care and adoption placement services which meet the range of need related to eldercare,
$19,995,677 spent45% of program spendingOther social serices includes a range of migration, immigration and refugee resettlement services, including educational and training services for the foreign born, as well as various social ministries, including emergency food programs, apostolate programs, campaign for human development as well as ministries to the deaf and disabled.
$14,296,659 spent32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,740,059.
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 2022 to 2023, from $25M to $40M (+58%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
John Westervelt
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $576k → $8.6M.
11 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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: $5.8M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Catholic Charities of the Arcdiocese of Newark). These are real filings, and they are not money CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK raised.
From the IRS filings of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 35% · 2019 32% · 2020 24% · 2021 45% · 2022 56% · 2023 89% — 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
46% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK's funders are still giving 3 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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK has grown faster than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.3M
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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK
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
88% 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK: 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK (New Jersey) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,077,127 to it, the largest being International Rescue Committee INC ($34,801,812). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $40,077,127 in grants to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK?
- International Rescue Committee INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,801,812 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK 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 46 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing