New Jersey · Nonprofit
THE DECENCY FOUNDATION
THE DECENCY FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $322,000 to it, the largest being Gordon & Llura Gund 1993 Charitable Foundation ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE DECENCY FOUNDATION's revenue fell 85% between 2020 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,352 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Daviesshared funders
- Fair Food Network Incportfolio match
- UNFI Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
89% of THE DECENCY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income held at $20k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 THE DECENCY FOUNDATION’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
THE DECENCY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 83% · 2022 35% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of THE DECENCY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
53% of THE DECENCY FOUNDATION'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. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Daviesshared fundersNY · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Fair Food Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- UNFI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abe Littenberg Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robins Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wholesome Wave Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keilman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wilder Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americas Grow-A-Rowportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cabbage Hill Farm Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lerner Foundation Co Gs Garritano & Assocportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vegfund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE DECENCY FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE DECENCY FOUNDATION: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE DECENCY FOUNDATION?
- THE DECENCY FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $322,000 to it, the largest being Gordon & Llura Gund 1993 Charitable Foundation ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DECENCY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $322,000 in grants to THE DECENCY FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DECENCY FOUNDATION?
- Gordon & Llura Gund 1993 Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DECENCY FOUNDATION 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing