New Jersey · Nonprofit
WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION
WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,118 to it, the largest being THE HOEHN FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST CATHERYN E HOEHN TRUSTEE ($85,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $960k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $543k
- Net assets
- $501k
What Where Angels Play Foundation does
Mission
The organization's mission is to create joyful places to play and to provide hope, recovery, and a return to family values in the wake of senseless violence and tragedy. Each playground constructed will be personalized for whom the playground honors; the structures will be safe, fun places for children to be children, a gift to our youth in an effort to enhance and sustain their precious childhood.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization's mission is to create joyful places to play and to provide hope, recovery, and a return to family values in the wake of senseless violence and tragedy. Each playground constructed will be personalized for whom the playground honors; the structures will be safe, fun places for children to be children, a gift to our youth in an effort to enhance and sustain their precious childhood.
$594,944 spentof which $13,419 as grants$23,737 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $594,944.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $532k to $951k (+79%).
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.
58% of WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Mary Kate Herbert
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $69k → $40k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 WHERE ANGELS PLAY 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
WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
73% 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 WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 39% · 2019 36% · 2020 45% · 2021 53% · 2022 22% · 2023 74% — 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
36% of WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
63% of WHERE ANGELS PLAY 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. $221k 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
WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$50k
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 WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHERE ANGELS PLAY 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION?
- WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,118 to it, the largest being THE HOEHN FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST CATHERYN E HOEHN TRUSTEE ($85,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $543,118 in grants to WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHERE ANGELS PLAY FOUNDATION?
- THE HOEHN FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST CATHERYN E HOEHN TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHERE ANGELS PLAY 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.
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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 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing