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Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation

Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation (New Jersey) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,278,550 to it, the largest being C AND A JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($330,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$234k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$201k
11/13 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation does

Mission

Scala Foundation is an academic initiative that aims to strengthen classical liberal arts education, promotes authentic well-being and supports creativity in the arts and sciences.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During the year, the foundation published articles, and donated books to parents and educators. We spoke at classical liberal arts schools in various places across the United States. We ran a student group, and hosted student dinners, and provided personal mentoring to students. We hosted a public conference with 12 speakers, 70 in-person attendees, and hundreds of views of the videos which were posted to Scalas YouTube channel. We visited art programs and provided supplemental cultural and educational formation to art students. We promoted artists whose work promotes reverence for the sacred and supports the common good. We featured artists work on our blog and social media, introduced artists to patrons who support their training and/or commission new art, and provided intensive mentoring to young artists.

    $140,678 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $140,678.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($130k) Expenses 100 ($139k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2018 Revenue 122 ($159k) Expenses 101 ($141k) Net assets 337 ($25k)2019 Revenue 159 ($206k) Expenses 155 ($217k) Net assets 199 ($15k)2020 Revenue 159 ($206k) Expenses 117 ($163k) Net assets 775 ($57k)2021 Revenue 264 ($343k) Expenses 182 ($253k) Net assets 1994 ($147k)2022 Revenue 176 ($228k) Expenses 176 ($246k) Net assets 1751 ($129k)2023 Revenue 184 ($239k) Expenses 168 ($233k) Net assets 1773 ($130k)2024 Revenue 177 ($230k) Expenses 124 ($173k) Net assets 2551 ($188k)2025 Revenue 180 ($234k) Expenses 158 ($220k) Net assets 2732 ($201k)
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Revenue (180)Expenses (158)Net assets (2732)Peer revenue range

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 $62k to $156k (+151%).

$14k
$30k
$21k
$62k
$156k
$142k
$138k
$195k
$206k
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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

100% of Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$10k
’17
$17k
’18
−$10k
’19
$42k
’20
$90k
’21
−$18k
’22
$6k
’23
$57k
’24
$13k
’25
11
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.

Board chair

Margarita Mooney Clayton

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed3354545
Joined·+0+3+1+1+0+1
No longer listed·012010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $79k → $134k.

6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation’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

Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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

41% 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 Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation.

26%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 90% · 2019 58% · 2020 41% · 2021 36% · 2022 33% · 2023 41% — 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

38% of Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 6 states in all.

IN
NJ
CT
VA
TX
FL

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. $498k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve11.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 22%Fundraising 15%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

63%

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 Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation?
Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation (New Jersey) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,278,550 to it, the largest being C AND A JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($330,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,278,550 in grants to Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation?
C AND A JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation 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 13 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