New Jersey · Nonprofit
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ (New Jersey) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,144,086 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($406,182). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj does
Mission
The purpose of jewish family service of central new jersey is to foster the development of healthy family life. Jfs is a multi-purpose non-sectarian agency providing social services to individuals, families, and the elderly. These services include counseling, home-care , kosher meals-on-wheels, financial assistance, information & referral, respite care, career counseling, food pantry, volunteer programs, caregiver support, community consultation, spiritual care, elder care management, adoption home studies & post placement supervision, services for special needs children & adults, school based counseling, assisted transportation for the elderly, support for aging holocaust survivors & day services for individuals with alzheimer's disease & dementia. Jfs has facilities in elizabeth, new jersey.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Homecare services for the elderly- we provide in-home services to the elderly of union county. Services can include homemaker service, certified home health aide service, personal care transportation service.
$5,634,181 spent65% of program spendingMental health counseling individuals, children & families- we provide out-patient mental health counseling services to individuals, children and families.
$1,157,986 spent13% of program spendingSpecific assistance
$1,284,919 spent15% of program spendingHomebound meal program
$542,130 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,619,216.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.5M to $5.0M (+42%).
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 28% · 2018 24% · 2019 30% · 2020 33% · 2021 28% · 2022 28% · 2023 32% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Thomas Beck
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $136k → $237k.
5 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $22M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ raised.
From the IRS filings of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ’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
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
25% 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 31% · 2019 51% · 2020 21% · 2021 20% · 2022 16% · 2023 34% — 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
64% of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ'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. $508k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$1.0M
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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ: 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ?
- JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ (New Jersey) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,144,086 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($406,182). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $2,144,086 in grants to JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $406,182 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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