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WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,248 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION has grown faster than half of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersportfolio match
- Deloitte Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
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.
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.
77% of WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $150k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 97% · 2022 46% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Deloitte Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCT · backs 57 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Generoso Pope Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youth Financial Literacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mathematical Association of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert Sydney Needham Fdn Mainportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles Levy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grant Thornton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Battier Take Charge Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bechtel Group Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wm & M Hunt Memorial Scholarship Tua Co Bankportfolio 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.
Government funding WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $86.4M on record.
- Department of Education$72.8M
- National Science Foundation$6.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.8M
- Department of Justice$824k
- National Endowment for the Arts$205k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$176k
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 WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
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.
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: 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 WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,248 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $228,248 in grants to WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON 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 WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 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 11funders 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