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TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS

TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS (New Jersey) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $580,850 to it, the largest being FLORIAN J LOMBARDI FOUNDATION INC ($70,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$336k
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$581k
Net assets
$2.6M
15/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Toms River Field of Dreams does

Mission

To provide communities an all inclusive complex which has a playground which creates and recognizes everyone's rights to fully participate in equitable play.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Revenue recognized from pledges receivable for construction of playground. Construction costs are deferred until such time when the facilities are open to the public.

    $425,894 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $425,894.

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 ($147k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($118k)2018 Revenue 238 ($350k) Expenses 123 ($36k) Net assets 367 ($432k)2019 Revenue 532 ($782k) Expenses 213 ($62k) Net assets 978 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 136 ($200k) Expenses 158 ($46k) Net assets 1442 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 168 ($247k) Expenses 228 ($67k) Net assets 1595 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 738 ($1.1M) Expenses 914 ($267k) Net assets 2302 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 246 ($362k) Expenses 1164 ($340k) Net assets 2320 ($2.7M)2024 Revenue 228 ($336k) Expenses 1644 ($480k) Net assets 2195 ($2.6M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (228)Expenses (1644)Net assets (2195)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 $1.9M to $3.1M (+61%).

$121k
$434k
$1.2M
$1.7M
$1.9M
$3.1M
$3.0M
$3.8M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

111% of TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$118k
’17
$314k
’18
$720k
’19
$154k
’20
$180k
’21
$819k
’22
$22k
’23
−$145k
’24
1.0
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

Justin Bosak

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed10141412161415
Joined·+4+0+1+5+2+10
No longer listed·003149
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $110k → $86k.

7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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

TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

35% 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 TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS.

12%
largest funder
33%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 41% · 2019 43% · 2020 43% · 2021 33% · 2022 23% · 2023 29% — 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

58% of TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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

75% of TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NY
PA
NJ
MO

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS has grown faster than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−43% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $625k on record.

State$625k
Top programs
  • GRANT IN AID$400k
  • CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION$225k

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 TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS

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

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

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 TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS?
TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS (New Jersey) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $580,850 to it, the largest being FLORIAN J LOMBARDI FOUNDATION INC ($70,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $580,850 in grants to TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS?
FLORIAN J LOMBARDI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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