New Jersey · Nonprofit
GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC
GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,434,073 to it, the largest being International Rescue Committee INC ($1,250,188). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Greater Bergen Community Action Inc does
Mission
To provide support to low-income families and low-income individuals of all ages to obtain the skills, knowledge, and motivation to secure the opportunities needed to move towards self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Head start/early head start programs provide comprehensive child development center-based services to low-income infants, toddlers, & preschool children and families. The head start/early head start program is a child focused and family centered program that embraces the local community and its resources to help families by addressing education, nutrition, health, mental, and social service needs.
$24,865,651 spent61% of program spendingGreater bergen community action, inc. Is a private, non-profit entity, formed to stimulate a better focusing of all available local, state, private and federal resources upon the goal of providing the necessary supports to low-income families and low-income individuals of all ages to obtain the skills, knowledge and motivation, and secure the opportunities needed for individuals and families to move towards self-sufficiency. Greater bergen community action, inc. Administers anti-poverty and preschool programs funded by the u.s. Department of health and human services, new jersey department of community affairs and others.
$10,084,745 spent$2,507,556 earned by the program25% of program spendingEarly childhood education (abbott) is designed to give all new jersey's children the opportunity to become contributing members in society and to achieve personal success. The abbott program services children three to five years old and provides a high quality education.
$4,320,747 spent11% of program spendingChild and adult food program: funded through the usda, the program provides funding for breakfast, lunch and snacks served in a day care setting and dinners in a school/senior setting. We provide breakfast, lunch and snacks to the children in the head start centers and receive reimbursement for each meal served to the child. This is used to offset the cost of food, other and kitchen labor (to the extent possible), in the centers.
$1,253,090 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,524,233.
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 $24M to $32M (+29%).
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: 2017 94% · 2018 95% · 2019 91% · 2020 82% · 2021 90% · 2022 87% · 2023 95% · 2024 90% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Robert Halsch
President/CEO
Board chair
Sercan Zoklu
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $26k → $164k.
1 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 30 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
GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 81% · 2019 68% · 2020 40% · 2021 56% · 2022 56% · 2023 76% — 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
15% of GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $210k 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
GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $248.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$245.4M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.8M
- Department of Homeland Security$475k
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 GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Gb Brunswick Estates Holding LLC · disregarded
- Gb Brunswick Estates I LLC · disregarded
- Gb Housing Services LLC · disregarded
- Bergen County Housing Coalition · exempt
- Cap Solar Nj I LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,434,073 to it, the largest being International Rescue Committee INC ($1,250,188). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $3,434,073 in grants to GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- International Rescue Committee INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,250,188 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION 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 30 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