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FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOUNDATION

FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,500 to it, the largest being MULLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION BARBARA MULLIN ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$475k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$46k
Net assets
$435k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Friendship Train Foundation does

Program

  1. The foundation operated a community center and provided classes and other community service activities to the local community

    $216,334 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($166k) Expenses 100 ($136k) Net assets 100 ($324k)2022 Revenue 103 ($171k) Expenses 165 ($225k) Net assets 83 ($270k)2023 Revenue 190 ($315k) Expenses 157 ($214k) Net assets 83 ($270k)2024 Revenue 143 ($236k) Expenses 169 ($230k) Net assets 86 ($277k)2025 Revenue 286 ($475k) Expenses 159 ($217k) Net assets 134 ($435k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (286)Expenses (159)Net assets (134)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 2024 to 2025, from $282k to $439k (+56%).

$328k
$273k
$274k
$282k
$439k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

20212022202320242025
Listed33334
Joined·+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $3k.

From the IRS filings of FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOUNDATION’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

FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 65% · 2019 63% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

67% of FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NJ
MD

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve15.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOUNDATION: 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 FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOUNDATION?
FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,500 to it, the largest being MULLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION BARBARA MULLIN ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $45,500 in grants to FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOUNDATION?
MULLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION BARBARA MULLIN is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOUNDATION 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 3 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