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ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER
ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER (New Jersey) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,981 to it, the largest being THE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC ($245,156). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $339k
- Net assets
- $406k
What Essex County Family Justice Center does
Mission
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As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Providing a range of services to victims of domestic violence to include therapeutic services for adult victims counseling civil legal assistance access to shelter and financial assistance safety planning support groups language interpretation immigration matters and implementation of evidence based prosecution strategies through partnership with newark police and essex county prosecutors
$1,166,800 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,166,800.
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 2020 to 2021, from $264k to $426k (+61%).
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 65% · 2018 73% · 2019 94% · 2020 93% · 2021 88% · 2022 90% · 2023 91% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Mary Houtsma
President executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $144k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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 FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 82% — 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.
Where its funders are
82% of ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER'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. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Justice$2.5M
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 FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: 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 FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER?
- ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER (New Jersey) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,981 to it, the largest being THE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC ($245,156). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $338,981 in grants to ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER?
- THE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC is the largest funder on record, with $245,156 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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