New Jersey · Nonprofit
Charity Navigator
Charity Navigator (New Jersey) receives grants from 666 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,199,779 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,011,100). 367 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 666
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What Charity Navigator does
Mission
Charity Navigator aims to make impactful giving easier for all by providing free, accessible information, ratings, guidance, and tools for donors. Charity Navigator democratizes philanthropy, allows donors of every wealth segment to feel confident in their giving decisions, and highlights organizations doing important work worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Charity Ratings - Charity Navigator aims to make impactful giving easier for all.Since 2001, it has been empowering millions of donors by providing them free access to data, tools, and resources to guide philanthropic decision-making. The ratings provide nonprofits with the sector's premier trust indicator and a powerful platform to raise awareness and funds.As of June 30, 2025, Charity Navigator's database includes more than 1.6 million U.S. registered nonprofits, with over 242,561 nonprofits evaluated through the Encompass Rating System. The Encompass Rating System, launched in July 2020, provides donors with comprehensive evaluations of the total impact of nonprofits rated via four Beacons: Finance & Accountability (242,119), Impact & Measurement (7,925), Leadership & Adaptability (13,305), and Culture & Community (19,387). In 2024, Charity Navigator created or updated more than 50 curated lists of recommended charities, leveraging its deep expertise in assessing charity performance. These lists cover a broad range of issues, from responses to crises to specific cause-based recommendations, helping donors find organizations aligned with their values.Additionally, in the Fall of…
$5,816,942 spent$6,056 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,816,942.
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 2021 to 2022, from $6.2M to $12M (+90%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Charity Navigator’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Michael Thatcher
President & CEO
Board chair
Hope Lyons
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 97 funders to 297 funders, grant income rose $900k → $8.8M.
47 of 666 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Charity Navigator’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 666 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
Charity Navigator has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
83% 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 Charity Navigator.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 46% · 2019 32% · 2020 33% · 2021 70% · 2022 22% · 2023 17% — 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 Charity Navigator's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
Charity Navigator draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 41 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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
Charity Navigator has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Charity Navigator
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 41 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Charity Navigator: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Charity Navigator?
- Charity Navigator (New Jersey) receives grants from 666 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,199,779 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,011,100). 367 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Charity Navigator have?
- IRS filings report 666 organizations giving $39,199,779 in grants to Charity Navigator, 367 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Charity Navigator?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $5,011,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Charity Navigator 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.
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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 666 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