New Jersey · Nonprofit
HomeWorks Trenton
HomeWorks Trenton (New Jersey) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,657,004 to it, the largest being Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation ($1,500,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What HomeWorks Trenton does
Mission
Homeworks is a free, after-school residential program for high school girls from marginalized communities. From sunday to friday, our scholars live in the homeworks dorm and are transported to and from their public schools. Every afternoon, scholars engage in activities focused on academics and identity-driven leadership. They then eat a family-style meal and stay overnight in our dorm with four full-time staff members. By providing a safe academic and residential space, homeworks scholars all over the world will gain the tools to achieve their full potential, and collectively break down social injustices in their home communities and beyond through ground-up, people-driven systemic change. We are starting in trenton, nj.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Semester Scholars Boarding Program - Homeworks Trenton served 11 middle school and high school scholars through activities such as book discussions, time management, financial literacy, emotional intelligence workshops, community service projects, and daily family style dinners.
$588,338 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $588,338.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.9M to $4.9M (+160%).
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: 2022 7% · 2023 17% · 2024 0% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of HomeWorks Trenton’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Natalie Tung
Executive director
Board chair
Kristina Schulte
Board chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 20 funders, grant income rose $10k → $539k.
13 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 HomeWorks Trenton’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
HomeWorks Trenton has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
42% 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 HomeWorks Trenton.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2019 89% · 2020 46% · 2021 51% · 2022 18% · 2023 19% — 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
33% of HomeWorks Trenton's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
HomeWorks Trenton draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
HomeWorks Trenton runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HomeWorks Trenton receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$300k
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 HomeWorks Trenton
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 HomeWorks Trenton: 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 HomeWorks Trenton?
- HomeWorks Trenton (New Jersey) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,657,004 to it, the largest being Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation ($1,500,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HomeWorks Trenton have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $4,657,004 in grants to HomeWorks Trenton, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HomeWorks Trenton?
- Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HomeWorks Trenton 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 52 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