New Jersey · Nonprofit
FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC
FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,191,539 to it, the largest being SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE ($1,458,054). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Family Connections Inc does
Mission
Growth happens here every day. With our counseling, skills-building, training and prevention services, people take control of their own healing and foster connections that make our entire community stronger, safer, and healthier.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Department of children and families - family support and reunification: giving families the tools and support they deserve so that they can stay together, to bond and thrive. These family support programs include (1) therapeutic, supervised visitation and support services throughout essex, passaic, morris and sussex counties; (2) supportive housing, counseling and care management in essex, passaic, hudson, bergen, and union counties, for families in which parents have a history of co-occuring substance use and mental illness; (3) the strong mothers and strong fathers programs: gender-specific intensive outpatient (iop) substance use treatment enhanced with parenting and life skills training. (4) family counseling is a large part of all these programs, to foster a strong family unit by offering intensive, home-based counseling and support services that give both parents and children a sense of safety, stability and self worth; (5) youth supportive housing: supportive housing, counseling, and care management services for youth in union county who are aging out of the nj dcpp foster care system. (6) nj4s-essex delivers a comprehensive service menu of evidence-based practices to…
$8,469,302 spentof which $582,893 as grants$191,144 earned by the program35% of program spendingCertified community behavioral health clinic (ccbhc) services have allowed us to combine our mental health and substance use services together with basic primary heathcare and other resources to create our integrated behavioral health services (ibhs): these programs include outpatient mental health; bi-lingual clinical services; culturally-competent mental health services for local veterans and their families; wellness house intensive outpatient treatment for people living with serious and persistent mental illness; outpatient substance use programs; medication assisted treatment for substance use disorders and; alcohol and drug abuse prevention. The programs enhance personal and family coping skills, insight, motivation and independence through the provision of individual and family counseling for all ages. The outpatient substance abuse program helps adults achieve and sustain recovery and rebuild their lives through making better choices. Medication assisted treatment uses medications in combination with counseling, to treat opioid use. Our alcohol and drug abuse prevention coalition employs environmental strategies to reduce and prevent underage drinking and drug abuse,…
$2,921,867 spent$556,287 earned by the program12% of program spendingThere are multiple programs at family connections supported through the department of children and families (dcf).1) school-based youth programs: school-based youth services programs(sbysps) provide on-site services in five schools to meeting pre-teens and teens in their own environment in a safe, welcoming space, to share challenges and learn effective coping strategies. The program delivers mental health counseling, life skills training, prevention programming, recreational activites, academic support and employment support. The locations of the programs are (1) the space at orange high school, (2) the zone at orange preparatory academy, 3) the loft at columbia high school, (4) the hub at maplewood middle school and (5) the den at bloomfield highschool. 2) otary program (outreach to at-risk youth) provides youth with group-based counseling for pregnancy prevention, violence preventionand gang involvement prevention. 3) parents as teachers (pat) provides in-home support for pregnant women and parents of children 0-4 years old. Supports include parenting skills coaching, infant screenings for developmental milestones, and provision of essentials such as diapers and formula.
$9,643,375 spentof which $17,550 as grants39% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$3,424,619 spentof which $6,528 as grants14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,459,163.
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 $6.7M to $8.8M (+31%).
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 77% · 2018 76% · 2019 76% · 2020 80% · 2021 82% · 2022 83% · 2024 88% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jacques Hryshko
Chief executive officer
Board chair
John R Feldman
Chair of board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $142k → $727k.
10 of 47 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 FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 62% · 2019 53% · 2020 32% · 2021 40% · 2022 37% · 2023 32% — 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
58% of FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
92% of FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC'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. $406k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC has grown faster than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $217.9M on record — $10.7M federal, $207.2M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.7M
- GRANT IN AID$156.8M
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$22.9M
- FEDERAL$22.8M
- DEDICATED$4.6M
- TRUST FUND$112k
- REVOLVING$50k
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 FAMILY CONNECTIONS 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: 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 FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC?
- FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,191,539 to it, the largest being SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE ($1,458,054). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $4,191,539 in grants to FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC?
- SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $1,458,054 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY CONNECTIONS 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 47 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