New Jersey · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC
UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,606,683 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($705,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $288k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $47k
What University of Orange Inc does
Mission
The university of orange is a free peoples university that builds collective capacity for people to create more equitable cities. We solve the problems of our world by learning to see the richness of our cities, becoming lifelong learners, participating in civic life, and having fun with our neighbors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Music city connects and supports musicians in and around orange. The programs long term goals include building social cohesion, enhancing civic engagement, launching local music economies, and exploring the ways music can help lay a path towards a healthier, more equitable city. We offer free community music classes, an instrument rental library, and a community musicology program and a concert series.
$105,499 spent$92,902 earned by the program30% of program spendingThe university of orange collective recovery program shares our practice of collective recovery through teaching events and workshops. Collective recovery is a way for communities to heal from trauma. One way people heal is by overcoming isolation and making connections to the world around them. We ended our fiscal sponsorship of the peoples cdc in july 2024. We hosted well-attended monthly solidarity potlucks with our community partners to connect with neighbors and visitors to orange. We held several classes including sewing 101, managing shock and awe, and a reading group of the path. We inaugurated our chair of community health.
$103,429 spent29% of program spendingOur restoriation urbanism program offers many programs including teaching, workshops, reading groups and consultations. Our urbanism programs included walking tours about public art and history and courses on civics. Per year. Students from essex county are joined by students from cities all over the us and the world. The class is open to students of all ages.
$102,480 spent29% of program spendingThe bridge builder press and maggie ink project supports writing classes and publications. Through our maggie ink project we have offered multiple 10-week memoir writing classes led by developmental editor susan hasho. This class is offered three times per year. Students from essex county are joined by students from cities all over the us and the world.
$12,915 spent$1,872 earned by the program4% of program spendingPartner projects partner with local organizations, individuals, and initiatives on mission-aligned work. We are partnering with the huub to develop the community campus. We dedicated a portion of our douglas farrands time to leading the building and grounds team and developing infrastructure to support the huubs operations.
$32,238 spent9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $356,561.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $160k to $399k (+149%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 6% · 2022 11% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Molly Rose Kaufman
Executive director
Board chair
Dr Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $112k.
5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE 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
UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 63%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 54% · 2021 54% · 2022 81% · 2023 49% — 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
10% of UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k 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.
Against its field
UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC has grown faster than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC?
- UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,606,683 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($705,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,606,683 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $705,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 24 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