New Jersey · Nonprofit
NAMI NEW JERSEY
NAMI NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $599,533 to it, the largest being NAMI National ($166,333). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $600k
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Nami New Jersey does
Mission
Nami New Jersey (nami nj) is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness. Through education, support, advocacy and public awareness programs nami nj fosters understanding about mental illness, confronts stigma often associated with mental disorders, advocates for public policies that benefit those affected by mental illness, and promotes research into the causes, treatment and recovery of mental health disorders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy: nami smarts for advocacy trained 13 local champions. We sent 36 advocacy e-news and alerts, testified in 2 legislative hearings. Our advocacy efforts featured in at least 8 news articles and tv spots from 5 different news organizations. We supported efforts to protect medicaid, meeting with congressional offices and building a digital campaign with stories from all 12 congressional districts. We met with 6 county prosecutors regarding the implementation of new court-based mental health diversion programs. We co-hosted a town hall and a webinar to support sustainable funding for 988 crisis services.
$868,117 spent$19,603 earned by the program67% of program spendingPublic awareness: creative outreach: hosted the nami nj poetry contest (32 entries, 299 votes) and 5 expressive arts cafe sessions for nearly 70 attendees. Our commitment to inclusive support remains central. Through our four multicultural programs: aact-now, camhop, nami nj en espanol, and samhaj. We reached 30,913 diverse community members via support groups, presentations, social events, outreach, and webinars. Nami nj initiated a social media campaign for men's mental health awareness in collaboration with our volunteer and intern, gaining 7,581 views and 218 interactions across our platforms. Over 52,590 website visitors, 157,740 page views, 42.5k engaged sessions, and 27,200+ social media followers.
$291,484 spent22% of program spendingSupport: 2,474 participants supported through recovery and family support groups statewide. Approximately 159 caregivers, individuals, and peers completed nami family-to-family and nami peer-to-peer programs to strengthen care navigation and recovery skills. 835 connections made through the nami nj helpline, providing trusted information and pathways to support. Nami connection peer-led recovery monthly online support group has been provided for the lgbtq+ community in nj, with 76 attendees last year. Special population care: nami family support groups have been offered virtually across nj to 242 spouses, siblings, parents of children, and state hospital client families.
$100,089 spent8% of program spendingEducation: nami nj equips individuals and families with early mental health awareness, education, and connection so they know how to recognize and act on mental health concerns before they escalate. 417 reached through youth and family education programs, including nami ending the silence, nami basics, nami family & friends, nami hearts + minds. 480+ law enforcement officers educated through nami nj and local affiliates' participation in crisis intervention team (cit) trainings, strengthening crisis response and community safety across the state. 92 educators benefited from homegrown community education and 9 presenters completed the educating the educator professional development training.
$40,292 spentof which $5,345 as grants3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,299,982.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.2M to $4.2M (+31%).
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 81% · 2018 84% · 2019 89% · 2020 76% · 2021 80% · 2022 74% · 2023 61% · 2024 41% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Meredith Blount
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $114k → $90k.
9 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 NAMI NEW JERSEY’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
NAMI NEW JERSEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
81% 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 NAMI NEW JERSEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 51% · 2019 50% · 2020 54% · 2021 59% · 2022 78% · 2023 56% — 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
44% of NAMI NEW JERSEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
NAMI NEW JERSEY draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 NAMI NEW JERSEY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$23k
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 NAMI NEW JERSEY
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 NAMI NEW JERSEY: 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 NAMI NEW JERSEY?
- NAMI NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $599,533 to it, the largest being NAMI National ($166,333). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAMI NEW JERSEY have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $599,533 in grants to NAMI NEW JERSEY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAMI NEW JERSEY?
- NAMI National is the largest funder on record, with $166,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAMI NEW JERSEY 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 24 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