New Jersey · Nonprofit
NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC
NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,517,425 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($2,917,969). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What New Jersey Future Inc does
Mission
New jersey future promotes sensible growth, redevelopment and infrastructure investments to foster vibrant cities and towns, protect natural lands and waterways, enhance transportation choices, provide access to safe, affordable and aging-friendly neighborhoods, and fuel a strong economy. The organization does this through original research, innovative policy development, colaition-building, advocacy, and hands-on techincal assistance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Smart growth policy and practice - conducting research, developing educational material, convening stakeholders to build consensus, communicating trends and recommendations, developing and promoting policy positions, and providing technical assistance that advances the organization's smart growth mission. Day-long redevelopment forum bringing together over 900 leaders to learn about cutting-edge best practices and share lessons learned in redevelopment and smart growth. Smart growth awards ceremony bringing together 300 top professionals and leaders to recognize the very best in quality planning, development and redevelopment. Jersey water works conference is a day-long event that brings together more than 300 state and local decision-makers, practitioners and stakeholders to amplify the importance of addressing new jersey's water infrastructure, explore innovative solutions and celebrate the progress of jersey water works.
$2,406,786 spentof which $90,265 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,406,786.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.2M to $5.2M (+25%).
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: 2021 22% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 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 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.
Board chair
Meishka Mitchell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $306k → $2.0M.
4 of 37 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 FUTURE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 64% · 2019 54% · 2020 21% · 2021 22% · 2022 34% · 2023 32% — 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
62% of NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
62% of NEW JERSEY FUTURE 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. $106k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $702k on record.
- DEDICATED$418k
- FEDERAL$214k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$70k
- SPECIAL TRANSPORTATION TRUST FD$545
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 FUTURE 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
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 NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC: 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 NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC?
- NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,517,425 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($2,917,969). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $10,517,425 in grants to NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW JERSEY FUTURE INC?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,917,969 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW JERSEY FUTURE 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.
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 37 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing