New Jersey · Nonprofit
Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc
Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,689,921 to it, the largest being VICTORIA FOUNDATION INC ($759,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc does
Mission
For over 45 years, nesf, a not-for-profit organization, has been serving the greater essex county community. Nesf is committed to providing quality services to individuals and families who need assistance with emergency food, clothing, shelter, utilities, rent, and other basic necessities during times of crisis. The homeless, the working poor, seniors, individuals with hiv/aids, and those affected by fire, eviction, or domestic violence remain our primary focus. When there is nowhere else to turn, individuals can come to nesf. We are a safety net to the community providing service with compassion, dignity, and respect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Newark Emergency Services for Families (NESF) provides short-term immediate emergency assistance, as well as long term sustainable solutions, for residents of Essex County who are homeless, unemployed, in crisis and experiencing hardships. The agency provides food, clothing, shelter, workforce development, counseling, social service referrals and financial assistance with housing and utilities. The Weequahic Family Success Center (WFSC) is a community focused center that provides support and resources that help strengthen families in Newark's South Ward. Programs and Services at the WFSC include youth mentoring, grandparents support groups, employment opportunities, male mentoring, parenting classes, family activities and community support.
$1,927,342 spentof which $354,398 as grants93% of program spendingHomelessness- making the community aware of programs for services provided, monitoring of on-going emergency services available and developing new services.
$155,995 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,083,337.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $2.6M (+13%).
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 92% · 2018 83% · 2019 97% · 2020 64% · 2021 53% · 2022 90% · 2023 73% · 2024 76% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
amina bey
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $0 → $351k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 48% · 2022 59% · 2023 76% — 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
33% of Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
88% of Newark Emergency Services for Families 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. $393k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
- Department of Labor$325k
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 Newark Emergency Services for Families 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
67% 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 Newark Emergency Services for Families 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 Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc?
- Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,689,921 to it, the largest being VICTORIA FOUNDATION INC ($759,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,689,921 in grants to Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Newark Emergency Services for Families Inc?
- VICTORIA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $759,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Newark Emergency Services for Families 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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