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Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation

Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation (New Jersey) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,065 to it, the largest being Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates ($130,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$553k
Revenue FY2024
9
Funders on record
$196k
Grants received
$-26740
Net assets
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation has grown faster than half of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($286k) Expenses 100 ($277k) Net assets 100 ($87k)2018 Revenue 109 ($312k) Expenses 134 ($370k) Net assets 22 ($19k)2019 Revenue 126 ($360k) Expenses 125 ($348k) Net assets 36 ($32k)2020 Revenue 369 ($1.1M) Expenses 372 ($1.0M) Net assets 63 ($55k)2021 Revenue 128 ($368k) Expenses 142 ($394k) Net assets 33 ($29k)2022 Revenue 223 ($637k) Expenses 300 ($830k) Net assets -189 ($-164425)2023 Revenue 320 ($915k) Expenses 275 ($762k) Net assets -13 ($-11663)2024 Revenue 193 ($553k) Expenses 205 ($569k) Net assets -31 ($-26740)
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Revenue (193)Expenses (205)Net assets (-31)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 52% · 2018 40% · 2019 89% · 2020 95% · 2021 89% · 2022 90% · 2023 84% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,616 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
17
$59k
18
$12k
19
$23k
20
$26k
21
$194k
22
$153k
23
$15k
24
2.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $51k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)3% 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 Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation’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

Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

92% 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 Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation.

66%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 69% · 2022 85% · 2023 99%broadly stable.

“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

20% of Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

74% of Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NY
NJ
VA
DC
FL

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

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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New Jersey

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 45%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited 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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation: 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 Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation?
Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation (New Jersey) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,065 to it, the largest being Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates ($130,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $196,065 in grants to Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation?
Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Metuchen Downtown Alliance A NJ Nonprofit Corporation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing