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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX (New Jersey) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $655,226 to it, the largest being LEVITY IMPACT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($155,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $655k
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What National Council of Jewish Women Essex does
Mission
The National Council of Jewish Women Essex county section (ncjw/essex) is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who turn progressive ideals into action. Inspired by jewish values, ncjw strives for social justice by improving the quality of life (cont'd) for women, children, and families and by safeguarding individual rights and freedoms.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The linda & rudy slucker ncjw/essex center for women (cfw) provides holistic career and support services to women who must enter or re-enter the workforce to provide for themselves and their families. At the cfw, clients can access career counseling, resume writing and job interview skills, computer classes, support for job certification training programs, hard and soft skills workshops, access to recruitment opportunities, health and wellness workshops, family law consultations and more, including referrals to partner organizations to meet a client's outstanding needs. Our focus is to ensure every client has the resources necessary and is empowered to reach her employment goals.
$350,272 spent$228 earned by the program31% of program spendingNcjw/essex is an organization that upholds the ideal that people can make a real and lasting difference in other people's lives simply by taking action. Those actions are all the more extraordinary because they represent not just one person's effort, but also the exponential impact of a group of individuals acting together with a common purpose. Our volunteer offerings include the back 2 school store, kids essentials closet, period.project, mitzvah-in-a-minute, the eskow awards, center for women, and various program and project work.
$203,384 spent$45,690 earned by the program18% of program spendingNcjw/ essex back 2 school store (b2ss): each year, the b2ss seeks to outfit 1,000 plus children in financial need with essential school items like a backpack, school supplies, winter coat, socks and underwear, and toiletries. The b2ss also provides the parents of these children with information, resources and support services.
$146,888 spent13% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$427,813 spent$11,881 earned by the program38% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,128,357.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $5.1M to $6.0M (+18%).
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 9% · 2018 11% · 2019 12% · 2020 11% · 2021 20% · 2022 22% · 2023 17% · 2024 16% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Caitlin Higgins Joy
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $16k → $91k.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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: $198k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
67% 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 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 79% · 2019 43% · 2020 45% · 2021 33% · 2022 29% · 2023 44% — growing more concentrated.
“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 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
66% of NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $226k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $430k 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.
Against its field
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX is better cushioned than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX?
- NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX (New Jersey) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $655,226 to it, the largest being LEVITY IMPACT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($155,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $655,226 in grants to NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX?
- LEVITY IMPACT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX 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 18 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