New Jersey · Nonprofit
Columbian Foundation
Columbian Foundation (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300 to it, the largest being BARRY NOVIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $126k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $300
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Columbian Foundation does
Mission
The organization is dedicated to improving the cultural, educational, and social welfare of New Jersey citizens and institutions with emphasis on Italian culture and heritage. This is accomplished primarily through fundraising to provide educational scholarship grants and other supporting grants to charities focusing on those needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Columbian Foundation supports various local and global charities. Support was provided to various schools, nonprofit musical organizations, medical institutions and child support organizations serving local New Jersey communities.
$64,438 spentof which $38,050 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $64,438.
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 $1.5M to $1.3M (−16%).
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.
15% of Columbian Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Livio Cioffi
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Columbian Foundation’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Columbian Foundation's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Columbian Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Columbian Foundation
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
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 Columbian Foundation: 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 Columbian Foundation?
- Columbian Foundation (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300 to it, the largest being BARRY NOVIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Columbian Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $300 in grants to Columbian Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Columbian Foundation?
- BARRY NOVIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Columbian Foundation 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 1 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