New Jersey · Nonprofit
FIRST NIGHT MORRIS INC
FIRST NIGHT MORRIS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,958 to it, the largest being FM KIRBY FOUNDATION INC ($60,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $127k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $133k
- Net assets
- $2k
What First Night Morris Inc does
Mission
To provide Morris County, NJ with a non-alcoholic New Year's Eve Alternative celebration.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
1)First Night Morris, Inc. hosted its Annual Festival of the Arts on December 31, 2025.
$70,078 spent50% of program spending2) First Night Morris, Inc.'s FNM365 Program is designed to provide initiatives in Workforce and STEM training, advancing Artists' Entrepreneurial skills, and cooperation among non-profit organizations. The interns received practical Help Desk training as they provided customer assistance to our clients accessing our Virtual New Year's Eve Program for the first time.
$70,078 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $140,156.
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 $91k to $36k (−60%).
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.
63% of FIRST NIGHT MORRIS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Walter Deutsch
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $46k → $14k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 FIRST NIGHT MORRIS 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
FIRST NIGHT MORRIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 FIRST NIGHT MORRIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 54% · 2021 66% · 2022 71% · 2023 92% — 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
91% of FIRST NIGHT MORRIS 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. $52k 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
FIRST NIGHT MORRIS INC's revenue fell 29% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 335 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding FIRST NIGHT MORRIS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$6k
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 FIRST NIGHT MORRIS 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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST NIGHT MORRIS 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 FIRST NIGHT MORRIS INC?
- FIRST NIGHT MORRIS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,958 to it, the largest being FM KIRBY FOUNDATION INC ($60,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST NIGHT MORRIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $132,958 in grants to FIRST NIGHT MORRIS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST NIGHT MORRIS INC?
- FM KIRBY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST NIGHT MORRIS 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 7 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