New Jersey · Nonprofit
IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS
IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS (New Jersey) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,170,984 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,534,838). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Imagine a Center for Coping With Loss does
Mission
A year round grief support center for children, parents and adults coping with the loss of a family member due to death or life-altering illness, designed to help children and teens develop healthy coping skills and foster resiliency and emotional well-being for all those who grieve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Imagine's core foundational program is free, year round, peer to peer grief support groups for families and individuals coping with loss, ranging in age from 3 - 18, young adults and their adult caregivers. Support groups meet bi-weekly in our mountainside or newark locations or virtually. In the 24 - 25 program year, imagine served over 600 individual participants in their direct support model. Participants attend imagine for free for as long as the services are needed. It takes over 120 trained volunteers who attend a 3 day training and then receive on-going coaching and supervision to faithfully execute the peer grief support model. Each night of support is overseen by a clinical staff member.
$1,139,704 spent70% of program spendingImagine knows that not everyone who is grieving will be in a peer grief support program at our center, but they will need the support of their peers. Imagine provides grief education and grief training to individuals, organizations and schools looking to better serve the needs of those in their community who are grieving. During the 24 - 25 year, imagine trained over 3,100 individuals to better support those in their lives who are grieving. These trainings are fully immersive experiences that help participants to explore their own grief and how to support others who are grieving.
$469,906 spent$43,825 earned by the program29% of program spendingImagine has created a retreat that we offer each year, to various stakeholder groups at imagine. From exclusive to widows, or women, or men, imagine knows that grief takes a toll on caregivers and that in order to grieve, many need space away and time to care for themselves, so they can be better for themselves and the individuals that count on them. Imagine organizes a three day two night retreat each year to support the mental and physical health of our participants, that is offered for free to all who attend.
$16,447 spent1% of program spendingImagine families are uniquely challenged in the space that as sole caregivers of children, the summer can be a very challenging time. Imagine is purposeful about developing relationships with both grief camps and traditional day camps that receive imagine's training to ensure that imagine families have safe supportive experiences and options for children throughout the summer months, when school is out and less consistency exists. Imagine staff spends time communicating with these partners and works to ensure that all camp options for imagine participants are free of charge.
$10,451 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,636,508.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.7M to $2.7M (+63%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 6% · 2023 8% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Lindsay Schambach
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $205k → $916k.
14 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 34% · 2019 43% · 2020 42% · 2021 42% · 2022 37% · 2023 41% — 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
56% of IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
54% of IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.8M that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M 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
IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS: 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 IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS?
- IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS (New Jersey) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,170,984 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,534,838). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $6,170,984 in grants to IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,534,838 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS 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 65 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