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MEN OF ESSEX INC

MEN OF ESSEX INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being THE MARK AND JANE WILF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$16k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$8k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 89%
01What it does

What Men of Essex Inc does

Program

  1. The organization awards college students aid for partial tuitions, books, and fees and miscellaneous expenditures.

    $9,441 spent$1,570 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,441.

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 ($559) Expenses 100 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2018 Revenue 3187 ($18k) Expenses 172 ($9k) Net assets 228 ($14k)2019 Revenue 2478 ($14k) Expenses 207 ($10k) Net assets 285 ($17k)2020 Revenue -1448 ($-8093) Expenses 150 ($8k) Net assets 21 ($1k)2021 Revenue 2998 ($17k) Expenses 138 ($7k) Net assets 186 ($11k)2022 Revenue -92 ($-512) Expenses 144 ($7k) Net assets 55 ($3k)2023 Revenue 2265 ($13k) Expenses 114 ($6k) Net assets 170 ($10k)2025 Revenue 2932 ($16k) Expenses 186 ($9k) Net assets 129 ($8k)
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Revenue (2932)Expenses (186)Net assets (129)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 2019 to 2020, from $17k to $1k (−93%).

$6k
$14k
$17k
$1k
$11k
$3k
$10k
$18k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

10% of MEN OF ESSEX INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$9k
’18
$3k
’19
−$16k
’20
$10k
’21
−$8k
’22
$7k
’23
$7k
’25
16
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.

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Listed45555655
Joined·+2+2+1+0+4+1·
No longer listed·121032·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.

Funder
'17
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MEN OF ESSEX 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.

Where its funders are

100% of MEN OF ESSEX INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NJ

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

’17
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

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

MEN OF ESSEX INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Months of reserve16.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)53% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like MEN OF ESSEX INC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 MEN OF ESSEX INC?
MEN OF ESSEX INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being THE MARK AND JANE WILF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEN OF ESSEX INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to MEN OF ESSEX INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEN OF ESSEX INC?
THE MARK AND JANE WILF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEN OF ESSEX 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.

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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 1 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