New Jersey · Nonprofit
GREATER TRENTON INC
GREATER TRENTON INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $475,500 to it, the largest being BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB FOUNDATION INC ($185,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $317k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $476k
- Net assets
- $146k
What Greater Trenton Inc does
Mission
Broker, foster, and leverage private, public, and community resources to enhance and promote redevelopment initiatives that will revitalize the city of trenton, new jersey with a particular emphasis on the downtown.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During 2025, the organization implemented a plan to wind down its activities. The organization sold its office property at 124 west state street, regular program operations, and distributed a substantial portion of its remaining resources through grants to charitable organizations whose purposes were consistent with the organization's exempt purposes. Regular program operations ceased on december 31, 2025. The organization remained in existence during 2026 solely to complete administrative, grant, dissolution, and regulatory matters and expects its 2026 form 990 to be its final return.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Broker, foster, and leverage private, public, and community resources to enhance and promote redevelopment initiatives that will revitalize the city of trenton, new jersey with a particular emphasis on the downtown.
$913,763 spentof which $539,342 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $913,763.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.0M to $171k (−83%).
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.
8% of GREATER TRENTON INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
George D Sowa
CEO
Board chair
Kevin Cummings
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income held at $50k.
1 of 7 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $630k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Trustees of Princeton University). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER TRENTON INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER TRENTON 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.
How concentrated its funding is
GREATER TRENTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 62% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
82% of GREATER TRENTON 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. $30k 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 TRENTON INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding GREATER TRENTON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75 on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$75
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 TRENTON 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 GREATER TRENTON 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 TRENTON INC?
- GREATER TRENTON INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $475,500 to it, the largest being BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB FOUNDATION INC ($185,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER TRENTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $475,500 in grants to GREATER TRENTON INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER TRENTON INC?
- BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $185,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER TRENTON 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 7 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