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GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $340,984 to it, the largest being MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ($115,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year. GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2024
$271k
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$341k
Net assets
$162k
10/23 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programGRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$10k

Recipients

1

Contributions on record

$341k

Donors on record

23

Payments out are 0.03x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.

01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($231k) Expenses 100 ($276k) Net assets 100 ($42k)2018 Revenue 89 ($205k) Expenses 65 ($178k) Net assets 165 ($69k)2019 Revenue 77 ($179k) Expenses 65 ($180k) Net assets 163 ($68k)2020 Revenue 76 ($176k) Expenses 42 ($116k) Net assets 307 ($128k)2021 Revenue 88 ($203k) Expenses 62 ($172k) Net assets 381 ($158k)2022 Revenue 44 ($102k) Expenses 56 ($154k) Net assets 257 ($107k)2023 Revenue 51 ($117k) Expenses 49 ($134k) Net assets 216 ($90k)2024 Revenue 117 ($271k) Expenses 72 ($199k) Net assets 390 ($162k)
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Revenue (117)Expenses (72)Net assets (390)

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 $90k to $162k (+80%).

$42k
$69k
$68k
$128k
$158k
$107k
$90k
$162k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$45k
’17
$27k
’18
−$721
’19
$60k
’20
$31k
’21
−$51k
’22
−$17k
’23
$72k
’24
9.6
months of
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.

Board chair

Mona Scott Young

Chairwoman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed75555555
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·2000000
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $26k → $26k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
3
4
3
6
6
8
6
7
3
1

9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

Where its funders are

GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 9 states in all.

WA
NY
IN
NJ
CA
MO
NC
TX
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

03Its place in the field
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $340,984 to it, the largest being MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ($115,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year. GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $340,984 in grants to GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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