New Jersey · Nonprofit
GOOD GRIEF INC
GOOD GRIEF INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,982,762 to it, the largest being MARGARET ANNE WILBY FOUNDATION ($1,101,210). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 105
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Good Grief Inc does
Mission
Good Grief provides comprehensive grief and resilience support services to children, families, schools and the greater community through the use of workshops, an educational curriculum (K-12) and support centers located in Morristown and Princeton.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Good Grief builds resilience in children, strengthens families, and empowers communities to grow from loss and adversity. Our vision of ensuring accessibility to our programs is substantiated by our robust educational and programmatic goals, which promote resilience and decrease risk factors associated with grief and childhood bereavement. The mission is achieved through peer support programs in our Family Support Centers, school-based programming through Good Grief Schools, and our Grief Expressions Summer Camp. Good Grief serves more than 180 communities and nearly 1100 participants annually. Good Grief relies on over 200 specially-trained volunteers to deliver our services to children and their families. These volunteers donated more than 14,000 hours in 2025, with an estimated value of $1,437,300.
$1,374,729 spent$107,930 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,374,729.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.8M to $4.7M (+24%).
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: 2021 16% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of GOOD GRIEF INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Christian Heiss
Executive Director
Board chair
Guy Langford
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $214k → $565k.
18 of 105 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 GOOD GRIEF INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 105 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
GOOD GRIEF INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
35% 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 GOOD GRIEF INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 28% · 2019 40% · 2020 25% · 2021 27% · 2022 41% · 2023 27% — broadly stable.
“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
46% of GOOD GRIEF INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
GOOD GRIEF INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
GOOD GRIEF INC's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 46 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GOOD GRIEF INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$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 GOOD GRIEF 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 GOOD GRIEF 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 GOOD GRIEF INC?
- GOOD GRIEF INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,982,762 to it, the largest being MARGARET ANNE WILBY FOUNDATION ($1,101,210). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOOD GRIEF INC have?
- IRS filings report 105 organizations giving $3,982,762 in grants to GOOD GRIEF INC, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOOD GRIEF INC?
- MARGARET ANNE WILBY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,101,210 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOOD GRIEF 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 105 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing