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New Jersey Library Association
New Jersey Library Association (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,135 to it, the largest being ALICE C JONES CHARITABLE TRUST UW ($100,294). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $661k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $148k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What New Jersey Library Association does
Mission
Established in 1890, the njla is the oldest and largest library organization in new jersey the njla advocates for the advancement of library services for the residents of nj, provides continuing education & networking opportunities for librarians and supports the principles of intellectual freedom & promotes access to library materials for all the njla provides services to over 2,500 members
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Spring convention, various interim meetings, website and newsletter publications to promote support for new jersey libraries, benefiting to nearly 9 million citizens
$488,806 spentof which $64,616 as grants$215,740 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $488,806.
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 2021 to 2022, from $778k to $1.2M (+57%).
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 8% · 2018 9% · 2019 7% · 2020 10% · 2022 19% · 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Brett Bonfield
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $16k → $17k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $26k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Infolink The New Jersey Regional Library Cooperative Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money New Jersey Library Association raised.
From the IRS filings of New Jersey Library Association’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 Library Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 37% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
New Jersey Library Association draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Library Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- FEDERAL$4k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$1k
- DEDICATED$500
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 Library Association
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 Library Association: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds New Jersey Library Association?
- New Jersey Library Association (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,135 to it, the largest being ALICE C JONES CHARITABLE TRUST UW ($100,294). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New Jersey Library Association have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $148,135 in grants to New Jersey Library Association, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Jersey Library Association?
- ALICE C JONES CHARITABLE TRUST UW is the largest funder on record, with $100,294 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Jersey Library Association 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing