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NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION

NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,391,441 to it, the largest being United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc ($376,374). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$666k
Revenue FY2024
12
Funders on record
$1.4M
Grants received
$309k
Net assets
9/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($745k) Expenses 100 ($612k) Net assets 100 ($285k)2018 Revenue 130 ($971k) Expenses 132 ($810k) Net assets 156 ($446k)2019 Revenue 63 ($470k) Expenses 123 ($753k) Net assets 57 ($163k)2020 Revenue 118 ($876k) Expenses 108 ($663k) Net assets 131 ($374k)2021 Revenue 125 ($929k) Expenses 111 ($681k) Net assets 218 ($622k)2022 Revenue 133 ($993k) Expenses 148 ($904k) Net assets 249 ($712k)2023 Revenue 76 ($569k) Expenses 156 ($952k) Net assets 115 ($329k)2024 Revenue 89 ($666k) Expenses 112 ($686k) Net assets 108 ($309k)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (112)Net assets (108)

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: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

$133k
17
$160k
18
$283k
19
$213k
20
$248k
21
$89k
22
$383k
23
$20k
24
2.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $87k → $208k.

1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% 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: $33k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest New Jersey Working Families Alliance Corp). These are real filings, and they are not money NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION raised.

From the IRS filings of NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION’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 JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% 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 JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION.

27%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 81% · 2019 92% · 2020 67% · 2021 52% · 2022 76% · 2023 47%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

14% of NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 6 states in all.

IL
WI
NY
NJ
DC
TX

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. $371k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 12 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.

Government funding NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.

Federal$2.0M
grants $2.0Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
  • Department of the Treasury$973k

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 NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION

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

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 18%Fundraising 5%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • New Jersey Citizen Action Education · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION?
NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,391,441 to it, the largest being United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc ($376,374). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,391,441 in grants to NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION?
United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc is the largest funder on record, with $376,374 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION 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 12funders 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