New Jersey · Nonprofit
SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC
SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,355,531 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ($318,300). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $880k
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $489k
What Save Barnegat Bay Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to restore and protect barnegat bay and its ecosystem. We advance our mission by being a strong and independent voice for the bay throughout the watershed, including all of ocean and part of monmouth counties. We do this through effective educational programs and targeted advocacy campaigns that engage our supporters who cherish the bay as a natural, recreational, and economical resource for the community and all of new jersey. Our supporters generously back the work of save barnegat bay, giving us flexibility and a strong foundation from which to grow.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy and policy actionin 2024, save barnegat bay advanced watershed protections through legal, policy, and grassroots advocacy. The organization continued its appeal of the njdep-basf natural resource damages settlement for the ciba-geigy superfund site, ensuring scientific integrity and community participation in restoration decisions. Sbb assisted multiple towns-including brick, lacey, and stafford-in evaluating over-development, shoreline erosion, and cafra/stormwater applications, and conducted technical reviews with princeton hydro and partner experts.through its community captains program, sbb hosted seven meetings with 54 participants, empowering local leaders to engage effectively in permitting and planning. Sbb also collaborated on statewide plastics and stormwater legislation and represented the bay in more than 30 regulatory and public-policy forums.
$527,265 spent$5,982 earned by the program62% of program spendingEducation and outreachfollowing the principle that awareness leads to education, and education empowers action, save barnegat bay delivered over 100 programs reaching more than 5,000 participants and generating ? 16,000 impressions across 25+ municipalities.highlights included the this way to barnegat bay school initiative, the summer steam series, and teacher professional-development programs totaling 840 hours. Through the smart yard healthy bay campaign, sbb built or distributed 258 rain barrels across eight towns, helping residents reduce stormwater runoff. The student grant program supported 17 students on 7 projects presented publicly during the summer. Sbb also hosted three screenings of the documentary drift, reaching 140 attendees.grant-funded initiatives included stop the sting (jellyfish polyp abatement), the toms river pathogen track-down project, and the municipal stormwater education initiative.
$203,371 spent24% of program spendingProjects and community partnershipssbb maintained five native-plant demonstration gardens and expanded the emily decamp herbarium collection at island beach state park, georgian court university, and the ecocenter. The ecocenter served as a community hub for scout troops, green teams, and partner nonprofits. Sbb led eight cleanups that mobilized 90 volunteers for 195 hours, removing 49 bags (? 150 lbs) of litter from sites in waretown, toms river, jackson, point pleasant, berkeley, and seaside heights. Staff also represented sbb at major regional events such as acua earth day (? 10,000 visitors) and lbif bay day, expanding outreach and merchandise fundraising.
$114,715 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $845,351.
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 2020 to 2021, from $392k to $564k (+44%).
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 5% · 2022 10% · 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Ed Vienckowski
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $36k → $277k.
11 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
65% 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 SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 67% · 2019 62% · 2020 49% · 2021 36% · 2022 28% · 2023 39% — 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
74% of SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
63% of SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $497k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $859k 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
SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC has grown faster than half of the 4,266 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,266 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $88k on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$46k
- GRANT IN AID$40k
- DEDICATED$3k
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 SAVE BARNEGAT BAY 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SAVE BARNEGAT BAY 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 SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC?
- SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,355,531 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ($318,300). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $1,355,531 in grants to SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY is the largest funder on record, with $318,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVE BARNEGAT BAY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 56 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