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THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC

THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,104,485 to it, the largest being THE CHARLOTTE W NEWCOMBE FOUNDATION ($410,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$15M
11/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Thomas Edison State University Foundation Inc does

Mission

The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in thomas edison state university's power to transform lives and build a more competitive workforce by empowering adults to attain their educational goals.thomas edison state university foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. While independent of thomas edison state university, the foundation operates exclusively for the benefit, support and promotion of the university and its educational activities and may receive and invest bequests, gifts or transfers of property or money, and expend any such funds or property for the institution's educational purposes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation exists exclusively to support the programs and activities of thomas edison university in the achievement of its mission as an institute of higher learning.

    $1,078,285 spentof which $1,062,470 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,078,285.

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 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 75 ($1.3M) Expenses 98 ($1.2M) Net assets 89 ($9.4M)2019 Revenue 74 ($1.3M) Expenses 84 ($1.0M) Net assets 104 ($11M)2020 Revenue 76 ($1.3M) Expenses 66 ($794k) Net assets 115 ($12M)2021 Revenue 127 ($2.2M) Expenses 73 ($873k) Net assets 131 ($14M)2022 Revenue 20 ($341k) Expenses 49 ($588k) Net assets 105 ($11M)2023 Revenue 47 ($794k) Expenses 80 ($957k) Net assets 110 ($12M)2024 Revenue 85 ($1.4M) Expenses 67 ($806k) Net assets 129 ($14M)2025 Revenue 94 ($1.6M) Expenses 108 ($1.3M) Net assets 140 ($15M)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (108)Net assets (140)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 2021 to 2022, from $15M to $12M (−17%).

$12M
$10M
$12M
$13M
$15M
$12M
$12M
$14M
$15M
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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
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2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

50% of THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$504k
’17
$93k
’18
$255k
’19
$506k
’20
$1.3M
’21
−$246k
’22
−$163k
’23
$636k
’24
$308k
’25
1.7
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

Nancy S Gloor

Board chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed323628303127292927
Joined·+8+2+7+3+1+9+4+0
No longer listed·410525742
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $14k → $177k.

6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’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

THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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

37%
largest funder
55%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 81% · 2019 41% · 2020 21% · 2021 66% · 2022 39% · 2023 56% — 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

33% of THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

87% of THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

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NY
MA
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NJ
MO
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $151k 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

THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 9%Fundraising 8%

Governance

23
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 26 states

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Questions and answers

Who funds THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,104,485 to it, the largest being THE CHARLOTTE W NEWCOMBE FOUNDATION ($410,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,104,485 in grants to THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
THE CHARLOTTE W NEWCOMBE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $410,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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