New Jersey · Nonprofit
Friends For The Abbott Marshlands Inc
Friends For The Abbott Marshlands Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,087 to it, the largest being D&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST INC ($110,544). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $165k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $174k
- Net assets
- $274k
What Friends For The Abbott Marshlands Inc does
Mission
The Friends for the Abbott Marshlands promotes the appreciation of the environmental richness and cultural history of the Abbott Marshlands through stewardship, outdoor experiences, science, education, art and history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In 2025, the Friends for the Abbott Marshlands offered over 200 Public Programs with a total attendance of over 3800 people. Most programs were free of charge and they included educational trail walks, community gatherings, art programs and exhibit openings, and special guest speaker presentations. Major efforts were made in 2025 to reach new audiences, with programming that invited the local communities into the Abbott Marshlands in novel ways.
$54,203 spent48% of program spendingVolunteer training and recruitment was a major effort in 2025 with over 4100 hours of volunteer service recorded. Our second Abbott Ambassador Training Program was completed, and volunteers supported the Friends efforts at the Tulpehaking Nature Center, at numerous outreach events, and also by participating in many Stewardship activities, including trail building and invasive species removal.
$24,339 spent22% of program spendingThe Jack Graham Intern Program continued in 2025 with part-time interns for a six week summer program. Interns received education about the ecology and history of the marshlands, assisted in marsh stewardship activities including water monitoring, and performed independent research on a marsh related topic of their choice.
$16,506 spent15% of program spendingThe Friends for the Abbott Marshlands also provide an online Calendar of Events for activities taking place in the marshlands, facilitate meetings of the Abbott Marshlands Stewardship Council, and provide financial support to the Tulpehaking Nature Center for programs and supplies.
$16,933 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $111,981.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $197k to $249k (+26%).
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.
87% of Friends For The Abbott Marshlands Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $111k → $30k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Friends For The Abbott Marshlands 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
Friends For The Abbott Marshlands Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Friends For The Abbott Marshlands Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 55% — 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
76% of Friends For The Abbott Marshlands 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. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Friends For The Abbott Marshlands Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Friends For The Abbott Marshlands 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
61%
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 Friends For The Abbott Marshlands 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 Friends For The Abbott Marshlands Inc?
- Friends For The Abbott Marshlands Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,087 to it, the largest being D&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST INC ($110,544). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends For The Abbott Marshlands Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $174,087 in grants to Friends For The Abbott Marshlands Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends For The Abbott Marshlands Inc?
- D&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $110,544 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends For The Abbott Marshlands 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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