New Jersey · Nonprofit
GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC
GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,971,507 to it, the largest being VICTORIA FOUNDATION INC ($760,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Greater Newark Conservancy Inc does
Mission
Greater newark conservancy is a new jersey not-for-profit organization that expands access to healthy food, environmental education, and green spaces. We provide hands-on community programs that cultivate sustainability, inspire action, and celebrate the power of nature to heal and uplift.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The conservancy's youth & family education program annually provides nutrition and healthy eating lessons, vegetable and fruit taste tests and school gardening lessons for 2,000 schoolchildren as part of its farm to school programming. Environmental education field trips are implemented for school groups at our judith l. Shipley urban environmental center, serving approximately 2,000 elementary school students each year. In addition, monthly healthy meal preparation demonstrations are offered in the center's teaching kitchen and classrooms. Other monthly family environmental education programming is implemented at the center's outdoor teaching gardens. Teacher professional development workshops are provided for teachers and parents, focusing on employing school gardens as outdoor teaching venues. Overall programming focuses on nutritional health and the urban environment. The combined education programs reach approximately 4,500 children and adults during the course of the year.
$667,532 spent$218,509 earned by the program25% of program spendingThe conservancy's urban farming/community greening program annually serves about 4,000 newark residents through its family-adopted planting plots, hydroponic greenhouses that generate fresh produce, weekly mobile farm stands, monthly farmer's markets, and distributed food boxes. Through these combined activities the conservancy makes nutritious, healthy foods accessible to newark residents who live in designated food desert neighborhoods. In 2023 urban farming initiatives expanded to include a newark growers community supported agriculture (csa) food box initiative, providing several dozen local families with fresh produce every other week.
$782,162 spentof which $61,908 as grants$43,896 earned by the program29% of program spendingIn 2023 the conservancy launched the coalition for healthy food in newark schools, a collective impact initiative, established to sustainably transform newark's school food system which serves 41,672 students in its 63 schools. The coalition is focused on increasing local food procurement, farm-to-school access, garden-based education, farm-to-family access, fitness education, and capacity building for school food service staff. The conservancy serves as the backbone agency for this collective impact initiative. Most recently this campaign has implemented community informational programs and the formation and strengthening of a series of student-led nutrition advisory councils in newark schools, encouraging student input on food quality issues within their respective schools, thereby impacting 2,600 students.
$1,217,592 spentof which $795,177 as grants46% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,667,286.
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 2023 to 2024, from $13M to $15M (+21%).
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 27% · 2018 19% · 2019 10% · 2021 17% · 2022 22% · 2023 17% · 2024 3% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Suzanne R Dyer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $146k → $661k.
11 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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 NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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
34% 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 NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 64% · 2019 17% · 2020 48% · 2021 15% · 2022 26% · 2023 17% — diversifying over time.
“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
52% of GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
76% of GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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.
Against its field
GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record — $454k federal, $608k state.
- Department of Agriculture$454k
- TRUST FUND$500k
- FEDERAL$62k
- DEDICATED$44k
- GRANT IN AID$2k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$542
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 NEWARK CONSERVANCY 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY 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 GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC?
- GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,971,507 to it, the largest being VICTORIA FOUNDATION INC ($760,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $5,971,507 in grants to GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC?
- VICTORIA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $760,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 76 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