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JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS

JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS (New Jersey) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $456,783 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($223,520). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$383k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$457k
Net assets
$208k
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What James R Halsey Foundation of the Arts does

Mission

The mission of the Foundation is to enrich the quality of life for youths (ages 14 to 20) by promoting and guiding the youth through the processes involved in the art of filmmaking and other art forms.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The james r halsey foundation operated numberous programs such as the "let's film" program during the year to the youth it serves

    $317,130 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $317,130.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($27k) Expenses 100 ($21k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2020 Revenue 91 ($24k) Expenses 71 ($15k) Net assets 229 ($17k)2021 Revenue 716 ($190k) Expenses 303 ($63k) Net assets 1982 ($144k)2022 Revenue 1180 ($314k) Expenses 1068 ($223k) Net assets 3237 ($234k)2023 Revenue 1216 ($323k) Expenses 1944 ($406k) Net assets 2098 ($152k)2024 Revenue 1980 ($526k) Expenses 2299 ($480k) Net assets 2739 ($198k)2025 Revenue 1439 ($383k) Expenses 1789 ($373k) Net assets 2866 ($208k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (1439)Expenses (1789)Net assets (2866)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $17k to $144k (+770%).

$7k
$17k
$144k
$237k
$269k
$320k
$272k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 71% · 2021 32% · 2022 37% · 2023 28% · 2024 34% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’19
$9k
’20
$127k
’21
$91k
’22
−$82k
’23
$46k
’24
$9k
’25
3.3
months of
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

Joseph A Halsey

CEO

Board chair

Lisa Ferguson

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed45556119
Joined·+1+0+2+4+5+4
No longer listed·002306
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $14k → $119k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS’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

JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

83% 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 JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS.

49%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 81% · 2021 70% · 2022 51% · 2023 53% — 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

50% of JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

52% of JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS'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 $218k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from New Jersey funders.

NJ
MD
DE
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)56% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 8%Fundraising 8%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

73%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS?
JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS (New Jersey) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $456,783 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($223,520). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $456,783 in grants to JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS?
Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $223,520 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 13 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