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ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC

ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,261 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,964). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$175k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$13k
Net assets
$234k
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Essex Fells Foundation for Educational Excellence Inc does

Mission

The essex fells foundation for educational excellence funds supplemental resources to enhance the academic experience, foster creativity, and stimulate innovative thinking at the essex fells school.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Support of cultural arts: including school musical production and variety show.

    $28,403 spent
    16% of program spending
  2. Enrichment programs which provide k-6 students exposire to activities such as sports, coding, arts and sciences.

    $61,455 spent
    34% of program spending
  3. Support of various student clubs such as broadcasting, arts, stock market and typing.

    $14,507 spent
    8% of program spending
  4. Other grants and support that help students with teacher appreciation, woodworking and financial literacy.

    $74,169 spent
    42% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $178,534.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($68k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets 100 ($100k)2018 Revenue 130 ($89k) Expenses 148 ($106k) Net assets 83 ($83k)2019 Revenue 212 ($145k) Expenses 176 ($126k) Net assets 52 ($52k)2020 Revenue 145 ($99k) Expenses 116 ($83k) Net assets 68 ($68k)2021 Revenue 82 ($56k) Expenses 66 ($48k) Net assets 76 ($76k)2022 Revenue 186 ($127k) Expenses 174 ($125k) Net assets 78 ($79k)2023 Revenue 209 ($143k) Expenses 154 ($111k) Net assets 110 ($111k)2024 Revenue 402 ($274k) Expenses 190 ($136k) Net assets 248 ($249k)2025 Revenue 257 ($175k) Expenses 265 ($190k) Net assets 234 ($234k)
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Revenue (257)Expenses (265)Net assets (234)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $111k to $249k (+125%).

$100k
$83k
$52k
$68k
$76k
$79k
$111k
$249k
$234k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

44% of ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
−$17k
’18
$19k
’19
$16k
’20
$9k
’21
$2k
’22
$32k
’23
$139k
’24
−$15k
’25
22
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $953 → $7k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC’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.

How concentrated its funding is

ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

56% 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 FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC.

53%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 52% · 2021 75% · 2022 89% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.

“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

25% of ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

56% of ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE 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 $6k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 4 states.

IL
NY
NJ
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC has grown faster than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC?
ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,261 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,964). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $13,261 in grants to ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,964 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ESSEX FELLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC find more funders?
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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 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