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New Jersey Council of County Colleges

New Jersey Council of County Colleges (New Jersey) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,557,858 to it, the largest being THE TEPPER FOUNDATION ($690,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$17M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$6.5M
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What New Jersey Council of County Colleges does

Mission

To perform statewide coordinating functions for New Jerseys community colleges and develop community-college led partnerships and solutions to expand educational and economic opportunity.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. New Jersey Council of County Colleges - The New Jersey Council of County Colleges, governed by the presidents and trustees of the states 18 community colleges and enshrined in state law, fosters collaboration between and among the state community colleges in a wide varity of areas, including academic issues, student affairs, instutional advancement, and other key areas. The Council serves as the primary advisory body to the Governor, the Legislature, and state leaders on matters related to community colleges and develops and leads community-college led partnerships and solutions to expand educational and economic opportunity.

    $1,947,097 spent$1,351,458 earned by the program
    12% of program spending
  2. NJ Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development - The New Jersey Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development, formed in 2004 by the community colleges as part of the New Jersey Council of County Colleges, develops and delivers education and training programs statewide in support of workforce and economic development priorities and fosters partnerships with business, unions, workforce development organizations, and educational institutions to align education and training with the needs of the economy.

    $13,886,460 spent
    88% of program spending
  3. The Joint Purchasing Consortium brings community colleges together to jointly procure goods and services, thus reducing costs to individual colleges.

    $16,252 spent$20,000 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,849,809.

02The 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 ($10M) Expenses 100 ($10M) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2018 Revenue 102 ($11M) Expenses 103 ($10M) Net assets 108 ($3.1M)2019 Revenue 81 ($8.4M) Expenses 81 ($8.1M) Net assets 118 ($3.4M)2020 Revenue 57 ($5.9M) Expenses 57 ($5.8M) Net assets 123 ($3.6M)2021 Revenue 34 ($3.5M) Expenses 39 ($3.9M) Net assets 111 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 110 ($11M) Expenses 111 ($11M) Net assets 113 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 118 ($12M) Expenses 113 ($11M) Net assets 143 ($4.1M)2024 Revenue 129 ($13M) Expenses 120 ($12M) Net assets 189 ($5.5M)2025 Revenue 170 ($17M) Expenses 165 ($17M) Net assets 224 ($6.5M)
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Revenue (170)Expenses (165)Net assets (224)

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 $5.0M to $13M (+155%).

$5.9M
$5.3M
$5.9M
$5.6M
$5.0M
$13M
$13M
$15M
$14M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 85% · 2018 82% · 2019 82% · 2020 77% · 2021 65% · 2022 89% · 2023 87% · 2024 87% · 2025 90%. 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.

$278k
’17
$250k
’18
$262k
’19
$139k
’20
−$333k
’21
$219k
’22
$817k
’23
$1.3M
’24
$899k
’25
7.5
months of
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

Jacob S Farbman

Executive Director, Economic Mobility

Board chair

Dr Sheetal Ranjan

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+6+3+3+2+2+5+0+7
No longer listed·63412506
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $160k → $415k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
$231k
Mdrcunclassified
$20k
funders
2
2
1
2
2
2
3
2

1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 New Jersey Council of County Colleges’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 Council of County Colleges leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

26% 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 Council of County Colleges.

44%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 83% · 2022 83% · 2023 64% — 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

0% of New Jersey Council of County Colleges's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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

71% of New Jersey Council of County Colleges's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NY
MA
NJ

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like New Jersey Council of County Colleges

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

36
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds New Jersey Council of County Colleges?
New Jersey Council of County Colleges (New Jersey) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,557,858 to it, the largest being THE TEPPER FOUNDATION ($690,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does New Jersey Council of County Colleges have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,557,858 in grants to New Jersey Council of County Colleges, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of New Jersey Council of County Colleges?
THE TEPPER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $690,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like New Jersey Council of County Colleges 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 8 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