New Jersey · Nonprofit
Garden State Coalition of Schools
Garden State Coalition of Schools (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being GERALDINE R DODGE FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $278k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $155k
What Garden State Coalition of Schools does
Mission
The purpose of the Garden State Coalition of Schools (gscs) is to promote educational practices, reasonable state regulations and state laws which further high quality education for all children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Gscs makes a permanent commitment to improving education without diminishing quality. Gscs provides a broad perspective reflecting the concerns of educators, school board members, communities and parents. Gscs emphasizes and advocates on the inter-related issues of academic achievement, educational practices and rational school finance. Gscs' primary focus is on the interrelated issues of academic achievement, education practices and school finance. The organization supports efforts towards more equitable education opportunities for all school children. Wise public policy includes a permanent commitment to both quality and equity. Gscs believes that equity should be achieved by improving education and not by diminishing quality and eliminating school programs that have led to high student achievement. We are proud to be strong, positive leaders in education thought and action. During the njsba/njpsa/njasbo fall conference, we co hosted the annual njsba/gscs legislative session, featuring prominent lawmakers from both parties. Though we met virtually all year, we featured prominent speakers at all our monthly meetings. Gscs continues to be a strong presence in trenton. Over the…
$204,852 spent$271,250 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $204,852.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $217k to $181k (−16%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Elisabeth Ginsburg
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Garden State Coalition of Schools’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Garden State Coalition of Schools's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
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.
Organizations like Garden State Coalition of Schools
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Garden State Coalition of Schools: 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 Garden State Coalition of Schools?
- Garden State Coalition of Schools (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being GERALDINE R DODGE FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Garden State Coalition of Schools have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to Garden State Coalition of Schools.
- Who is the largest funder of Garden State Coalition of Schools?
- GERALDINE R DODGE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Garden State Coalition of Schools 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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