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MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION INC

MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being LOCAL 825 LABOR MANAGEMENT FUND ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$177k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$55k
Net assets
$553k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Meadowlands Regional 2040 Foundation Inc does

Mission

By strengthening the workforce and improving the overall quality of life for the meadowlands community. The foundation trustees have identified educational outreach as key to its mission. The 2040 foundation will help promote awareness and provide programming of economic development, workforce development, leadership and entrepreneurship programs to ensure that our region maintains a high standard of human capital and also innovates to meet the needs of growing businesses. The foundation is comprised of busioness leaders that have deep roots in the region and a strong commitment to improving the area for those that live and work here.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Economic development and relocation resource guide advertisements and publications highlight all of the attributes of the region and the communities that make up the meadowlands. It is aimed at corporate site selectors and businesses prospectively looking at relocating here, providing all pertinent municipal, workforce, education and business resources that are available.

    $55,460 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $55,460.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($120k) Expenses 100 ($57k) Net assets 100 ($130k)2018 Revenue 97 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($57k) Net assets 146 ($189k)2019 Revenue 183 ($219k) Expenses 100 ($57k) Net assets 270 ($350k)2020 Revenue 90 ($108k) Expenses 426 ($243k) Net assets 165 ($214k)2021 Revenue 155 ($186k) Expenses 289 ($165k) Net assets 179 ($232k)2022 Revenue 160 ($192k) Expenses 183 ($105k) Net assets 247 ($320k)2023 Revenue 108 ($130k) Expenses 177 ($101k) Net assets 269 ($348k)2024 Revenue 211 ($253k) Expenses 193 ($110k) Net assets 379 ($492k)2025 Revenue 147 ($177k) Expenses 202 ($115k) Net assets 427 ($553k)
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Revenue (147)Expenses (202)Net assets (427)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 2018 to 2019, from $189k to $350k (+86%).

$144k
$189k
$350k
$214k
$232k
$320k
$348k
$492k
$553k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

21% of MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$63k
’17
$59k
’18
$162k
’19
−$136k
’20
$20k
’21
$87k
’22
$29k
’23
$143k
’24
$61k
’25
42
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

James Kirkos

President & CEO

Board chair

J Fletcher Creamer Jr

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed11101213131313
Joined·+1+3+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·210010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
'24*
total
funders
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $22k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates). These are real filings, and they are not money MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION 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

MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

91% 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 MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION INC.

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NJ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin35% · top quartile
Months of reserve41.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education 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

48% of spending goes to programs.

Program 48%Management 52%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NJ

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Meadowlands Chamber of Commerce · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION INC?
MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being LOCAL 825 LABOR MANAGEMENT FUND ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,000 in grants to MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION INC?
LOCAL 825 LABOR MANAGEMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEADOWLANDS REGIONAL 2040 FOUNDATION 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 2 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