New Jersey · Nonprofit
NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,700 to it, the largest being New Brunswick Tomorrow ($173,050). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $244k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $217k
- Net assets
- $123k
What New Brunswick Education Foundation Inc does
Mission
The new brunswick education foundation (nbef) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that is designed to help inspire, equip, and empower new brunswick public school students to succeed. Nbef partners with individuals, businesses, and organizations to provide innovative and cutting-edge initiatives for students that are generally not covered by the school budget. Mission "to seek and procure monetary contributions, charitable gifts, and in-kind services to help increase educational opportunities, innovative programs, scholarships, and other resources to benefit new brunswick youth. Goals to foster collaborations with educators, parents, alumni, local businesses, corporations, churches, community organizations, and others to benefit students; to complement the new brunswick public school districts curriculum, programs, projects and activities; to provide mini-grants for teachers to implement creative and innovative learning experiences for students; to develop an alumni networ
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Nbefs college & young professional network (c&ypn) is an ongoing support system for new brunswick high school and new brunswick health sciences technology high school graduates attending colleges, universities and vocational institutes. This trailblazing initiative provides them with college readiness and career development coaching, mentoring, training and special events including career clusters in engineering and computer science, business and communications, psychology and social work, and pre- med and nursing. Nbef also offers a pathways to law school program, public speakers institute, and mental health platform. We started the nbef c&ypn in 2011 with 11 students and has grown to over 800 participants. Nbef begins cultivating and nurturing students during their junior and senior year in high school, setting the stage for their transition into college and beyond. Once they are enrolled in college, nbefs c&ypn becomes a link to their future, building their professional portfolio via career development programs, coaching/mentoring, job shadowing, and internship opportunities. A primary aim of the network is to help ensure that our youth remain focused on completing their…
$99,623 spent50% of program spendingThe organization awarded scholarships totaling over 97k to college bound students from new brunswick high school and new brunswick health science technology high school during the year ended 12/31/25. Nbef has awarded and administered scholarships of 1,048,125 in college scholarships since 2007. These scholarships have assisted recipients to attend institutions including but not limited to: columbia university, princeton university, john hopkins university, seton hall university, etc. Many of these students have furthered their education and have matriculated in graduate & doctoral programs.
$96,408 spent48% of program spendingStem / robotics program since 2011, the organization has had a robotics initiative that seeks to inspire new brunswick public school students to better connect with math, science and technology related disciplines as well as ignite their aspirations to pursue careers as scientists, inventors, engineers and even stem related educators. This stem project has provided 6th through 12th grade students with hands-on and inquiry based learning experiences that entails designing, building and programming robotics. The organization has entered the new brunswick middle school robotics team in first lego league(fll)competitions the past three years resulting in high achievements and recognition. Innovative teacher grant program since 2008, nbef has provided over 110,000 for new brunswick public school teachers to implement innovative projects and activities in classrooms and after-school programs. This special collaboration has involved more than 50 educators and has impacted thousands of students ranging from pre- kindergarten through grade 12 in areas such as reading & literacy, performing arts, stem, etc. The process begins with teachers submitting grant proposals that offer novel…
$3,584 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $199,615.
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 2021 to 2022, from $182k to $98k (−46%).
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.
98% of NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $4k → $59k.
From the IRS filings of NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION 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
NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 99% · 2022 57% · 2023 85% — 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.
Where its funders are
93% of NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,700 to it, the largest being New Brunswick Tomorrow ($173,050). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $216,700 in grants to NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- New Brunswick Tomorrow is the largest funder on record, with $173,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION 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.
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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 6 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