New Jersey · Nonprofit
COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC
COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 164 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,747,022 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,575,116). 85 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 164
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Covenant House New Jersey Inc does
Mission
To provide shelter, food, medical and mental health care, legal services, educational and vocational services and an array of housing options, including transitional and permanent housing opportunities, for youth facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Short-term housing (emergency shelter): covenant house new jersey welcomes all young people facing homelessness with unconditional love, absolute respect, and relentless support, as our shelter doors are always open, 24/7. Our shelters our located in newark and atlantic city where we meet youth's immediate needs by providing them sanctuary meeting their basic needs of food, shelter and clothing. Additionally, chnj provides high-quality services and programs to meet those needs, stabilizing a young person's situation, and helping them begin to consider their longer-term goals for education, employment, and career planning. In fy 2025, we provided shelter or housing to 581 youth. 64% of youth exited shelter to a positive living environment.
$3,934,081 spentof which $298,521 as grants$1,529 earned by the program28% of program spendingRights of passage (rop): covenant house new jersey's transitional living programs, rights of passage, are where young men and women take their boldest steps toward independence. Youth plan to live in rop for 18-24 months, where they tap their potential and plan for the future. Here they build basic life skills and financial literacy, participate in educational and vocational programs, seek employment with long-term advancement and career prospects, while working toward moving into their own safe and stable housing. Our staff support each young person on their journey toward sustainable independence and a hope-filled future. In fy25, 84 young people were assisted through our rights of passage transitional living programs located in asbury park, atlantic city and newark. 82% of youth exited to a positive living environment.
$3,518,763 spentof which $1,170,196 as grants25% of program spendingNon-residential services at the youth engagement centers: the newark and atlantic city youth engagement centers (yec) are the core of our service provision in north and south jersey. There, we provide an array of important supportive services to residents and non-residential clients to encourage, engage and empower youth to move to a positive living environment. These services include case management, legal assistance, physical and mental health care, and through our dove learning center: career development, educational services, financial literacy, social navigation, and wellness all with a focus on resiliency. - legal support and advocacy: at covenant house new jersey our youth advocacy center (yac) is staffed by licensed attorneys providing legal assistance to our youth in a variety of legal matters including family law, landlord/tenant, municipal court, public benefits, immigration, and advocacy. The yac also works on advocacy projects and conducts educational groups for youth on a variety of legal topics. In the fiscal year 2025, our chnj legal team assisted 292 youth with legal services. - health and well-being: homelessness impacts young people's physical and mental…
$2,020,686 spentof which $133,798 as grants14% of program spendingCovenant house new jersey takes pride in its behavioral health department which provides an essential service within a safe and trusting environment so our youth can overcome the obstacles they face. Through early intervention and personalized care, youth are able to approach their treatment with confidence. Chnj provides on-site group and individual counseling as well as access to a consulting psychiatric apn. This extra level of mental healthcare, in addition to medical care helps youth meet their goals and overcome barriers to treatment. - street and community outreach: street outreach teams actively seek out young people experiencing homelessness who may need help. The team assists with critical safety needs by providing transportation to a safe shelter. Young people living on the streets can receive food, water, hygiene kits, clothing, blankets, and referrals to services such as shelter, medical care, employment, and education services. In fy25, we reached 242 youth in direct street outreach. - young families program: our program dedicated to serving young families is raphael's life house. In this program, our expecting or parenting young moms between the ages of 18-21 live…
$4,761,880 spentof which $282,430 as grants$142,158 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,235,410.
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 2017 to 2018, from $19M to $21M (+11%).
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 18% · 2018 17% · 2019 22% · 2020 21% · 2021 23% · 2022 31% · 2023 30% · 2024 26% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
John R Berger
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 64 funders, grant income rose $706k → $2.0M.
22 of 164 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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: $35M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Covenant House). These are real filings, and they are not money COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 164 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
COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% 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 COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 65% · 2019 61% · 2020 18% · 2021 40% · 2022 28% · 2023 31% — 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
45% of COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC'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
71% of COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY 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 $4.6M that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC's revenue grew 37% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $43.2M on record — $17.4M federal, $25.7M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$11.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.8M
- Department of Justice$2.2M
- GRANT IN AID$14.4M
- FEDERAL$10.0M
- TRUST FUND$646k
- DEDICATED$638k
- BOND FUND$53k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$3k
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 COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 31 related entities
- Covenant House · exempt
- Covenant House Alaska · exempt
- Covenant House California · exempt
- Covenant House Florida · exempt
- Covenant House Georgia · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC?
- COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 164 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,747,022 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,575,116). 85 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 164 organizations giving $15,747,022 in grants to COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC, 85 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,575,116 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY 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.
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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 164 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