New Jersey · Nonprofit
ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE
ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE (New Jersey) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,027,041 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($291,942). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $169M
What Essex County College does
Mission
Essex County College (the college) is an open access community college that serves the diverse needs of students through comprehensive education programs, training, and continuing education. The college is dedicated to academic excellence and the success of its students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarship and fellowships - the college participates in federal and state funded programs. Approximately 60% of the unduplicated student enrollment received student aid assistance during fiscal year 2025. During fiscal year 2025, the college expended student assistance in the form of new jersey tuition aid grant (tag) and education opportunity fund (eof) programs in the amounts of $4,590,471 and $1,492,536, respectively, and other new jersey student assistance grants of $1,525,127, for a grand total of $7,608,134. The college also expended student assistance from the u.s. Department of education for pell grants of $20,749,764, supplemental educational opportunity (seog) grants of $360,000, federal work study of $419,427, and other various grants make a grand total of $33,042,034.
$28,703,290 spentof which $28,703,290 as grants40% of program spendingInstitutional support - this program is to support the institution. Through this program the college can track and manage its administrative expenses. Most of the administrative employee wages and benefits as well as other operating expenses are charged to this program. In fiscal year 2025 this program represented 23% of the college total operating expenses.
$23,034,689 spentof which $4,338,744 as grants$33,666,829 earned by the program32% of program spendingStudent services - the college provides services to students which include enrollment, and student affairs. Enrollment services provided at the college are student welcome center, admissions, transcript evaluations, registration, counseling, add/drop, class withdrawal, grades posting, transcripts issuance, county chargebacks issuance, enrollment and degree verification, veterans certifications, student record changes, degree audits, graduation certifications, commencement information, and diploma issuance.student affairs services provided at the college are student clubs assistance and management, scholarship request review and attribution, food pantry, mental health counseling, athletics, and special events organization.
$9,920,790 spent$289,152 earned by the program14% of program spendingInstruction - the college believes in creating a learning environment that fosters high expectations for achievement. The college is committed to rigorous academic standards, faculty excellence, and responsive support services that enable students to reach their full academic, professional and personal potential. The college provides excellent programs that utilize technology, demonstrate innovation, and undergo evaluation to ensure consistent and outstanding performance. The college offers a wide range of associate degree programs, academic certificate programs, and certificates of completion. During fiscal year 2025, the college offered 69 degrees and certifications, which included 398 courses. The number of students who attended during fiscal year 2025 equated to 9,715 (4,020 full time students and 5,692 part-time students) which included 8,244 degree-seeking students and 1,468 non-matriculated students. Academic support - for over 45 years, the college has been educating and enriching the lives of our students. Our academic programs consider the needs of our local community, but our quality attracts applicants from all over the world. During fiscal year 2025, the college had…
$9,371,737 spent$1,750,424 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $71,030,506.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $179M to $211M (+18%).
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: 2019 59% · 2021 73% · 2022 77% · 2023 68% · 2024 66% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Dr Marion Bolden
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $148k → $198k.
2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 18 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
ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
69% 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 ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 89% · 2019 69% · 2020 59% · 2021 77% · 2022 75% · 2023 45% — 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
11% of ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
51% of ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $372k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65.1M on record.
- Department of Education$65.1M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$5k
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 ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE: 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 ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE?
- ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE (New Jersey) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,027,041 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($291,942). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,027,041 in grants to ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $291,942 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 18 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