Fund for New Jersey
Historical FunderPrinceton, New Jersey · EIN 22-1895028 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$3.3M
Organizations funded55
Typical grant$50,000
Total assets$59.8M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $25,000 and $100,000.
From the return
How to apply
The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2024):
| Contact | PROGRAM OFFICER |
|---|---|
| Address | ONE PALMER SQUARE EAST - SUITE 303, PRINCETON NJ 08542 |
| Phone | 6093560421 |
| PROGRAMOFFICER@FUNDFORNJ.ORG | |
| Form and materials | PROGRAM OFFICER WILL PROVIDE INSTRUCTIONS ON REAPPLYING. |
| Deadlines | APPLICATIONS FROM INVITED AND RENEWING ORGANIZATIONS ARE DUE AS INSTRUCTED BY PROGRAM STAFF. |
| Restrictions | THE FUND FOR NEW JERSEY MAKES GRANTS ONLY TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE DESIGNATED TAX-EXEMPT STATUS UNDER SECTION 501(C)(3) OF THE IRC. THE FUND DOES NOT SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES OF INDIVIDUALS. THE FUND DOES NOT SUPPORT CAPITAL PROJECTS AND RARELY PROVIDES GRANTS FOR LOCAL ACTIVITIES OR DIRECT SERVICES UNLESS THESE PROJECTS ARE DESIGNED TO SUPPORT SYSTEMIC CHANGE (FOR EX: A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT TO INFORM PUBLIC POLICY). |
Copied as filed. Deadlines on a tax return describe the foundation's usual process; they are not confirmation of a current open cycle.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
12% of grants went outside New Jersey.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Environmental Law Center | Newark, NJ | To provide high-quality legal assistance for clean energy, climate change, and environmental justice. | $175,000 |
| Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey | Trenton, NJ | To advance policies that expand the affordability and accessibility of housing. | $125,000 |
| Neo- Philanthropy-Nj Alliance for Immigrant Justice | Newark, NJ | To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies. | $125,000 |
| New Jersey Institute for Social Justice | Newark, NJ | To advance racial and economic justice in new jerseys urban communities and to expand and protect democracy. | $125,000 |
| New Jersey Policy Perspective | Trenton, NJ | To promote a more transparent state budget process that prioritizes the needs of new jersey residents. | $125,000 |
| Aclu of Nj Foundation | Newark, NJ | To reduce incarceration and to defend democracy, housing equity, workers' rights, and other policy initiatives. | $100,000 |
| American Friends Service Committee | Newark, NJ | To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies. | $100,000 |
| Education Law Center | Newark, NJ | To advance well-funded, equitable public education in new jersey | $100,000 |
| Fair Share Housing Center | Cherry Hill, NJ | To defend new jersey residents right to equitable and affordable housing. | $100,000 |
| Latino Action Network Foundation | Freehold, NJ | To advance the rights, interests, and influence of new jerseys latino residents through grassroots organizing and policy advocacy | $100,000 |
| League of Women Voters of New Jersey Education Fund | Trenton, NJ | To harness the power of grassroots activism to fight for a more inclusive and representative democracy. | $100,000 |
| Make the Road States | Brooklyn, NY | To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies. | $100,000 |
| Nj Citizen Action Education Fnd | Newark, NJ | To promote economic security, quality affordable health care, and expand work protections. | $100,000 |
| Salvation and Social Justice | Trenton, NJ | To maintain focus on racial justice to advance the rights, interests, and influence of nj's black communities through youth, grassroots… | $100,000 |
| Advocates for Children of New Jersey | Newark, NJ | To advance state and federal policies that support low-income children and families and improve the quality of life for children living in… | $75,000 |
| Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center | New Brunswick, NJ | To advance policies on climate and clean energy through leadership of the jersey renews coalition. | $75,000 |
| Green and Healthy Homes Initiative | Baltimore, MD | To empower communities to create healthy, safe, and energy-efficient homes to improve health, economic, and social outcomes | $75,000 |
| Ironbound Community Corporation | Newark, NJ | To advance environmental justice through community organizing and public policy. | $75,000 |
| New Jersey Future | Trenton, NJ | To eliminate childhood lead poisoning in new jersey through co-convening and providing backbone staff support to the lead-free new jersey… | $75,000 |
| New Jersey Public Radio | New York, NY | To support a strong public media ecosystem and a one-time $25,000 grant increase in support of wnyc/njprs centennial anniversary. | $75,000 |
| New Jersey Work Environment Council | Trenton, NJ | To advance policies on climate and clean energy through leadership of the jersey renews coalition. | $75,000 |
| New Yorknew Jersey Baykeeper | Hazlet, NJ | To safeguard the waters and coastal communities of the hudson-raritan harbor estuary. | $75,000 |
| Nj Environmental Justice Alliance | Newark, NJ | To advance their work to support healthy communities by advancing environmental justice in new jerseys infrastructure, policies, and… | $75,000 |
| Aclu of Nj Foundation | Newark, NJ | To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other… | $70,000 |
| Faith in New Jersey | Camden, NJ | To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies. | $65,000 |
| Wind of the Spirit | Madison, NJ | To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies. | $65,000 |
| Hubb Orange | Orange, NJ | To eliminate childhood lead poisoning in new jersey via the lead-free new jersey collaborative, centering the perspectives of those most… | $60,000 |
| Aapi Montclair | Newark, NJ | To build a network of aapi organizations in new jersey. | $50,000 |
| New Jersey Highlands Coalition | Boonton, NJ | To protect and defend the highlands act and the regional master plan, as well as advocate for forest stewardship. | $50,000 |
| Nj Coalition Diverse & Inclusive Schools | Hackensack, NJ | To address segregation in new jerseys public schools and to develop remedies that foster integrated and inclusive schools. | $50,000 |
| Pinelands Preservation Alliance | Southampton, NJ | To protect the pinelands region and to promote responsible enjoyment of its natural resources. | $50,000 |
| Whyy-Fm | Philadelphia, PA | To support a strong public media ecosystem in new jersey. | $50,000 |
| New Jersey Monitor | Lawrenceville, NJ | To cover important policy and government transparency issues impacting new jersey | $45,000 |
| Hyacinth AIDS Foundation | New Brunswick, NJ | To address health care disparities, housing needs, and other comorbidities among the hiv/aids community. | $40,000 |
| East Trenton Collaborative | Trenton, NJ | To eliminate childhood lead poisoning in new jersey via the lead-free new jersey collaborative, centering the perspectives of those most… | $30,000 |
| Paterson Alliance | Paterson, NJ | To eliminate childhood lead poisoning in new jersey via the lead-free new jersey collaborative, centering the perspectives of those most… | $30,000 |
| Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions | Morris Township, NJ | To mobilize environmental commissions to advance state and local policies that improve water quality and combat climate change. | $25,000 |
| Center for Non-Profits | Hamilton Township, NJ | To advocate for a more robust, well-resourced, and effective non-profit sector in new jersey. | $25,000 |
| Hopewell for Btba | Newark, NJ | To better coordinate progressive tax policy advocacy at the federal and state levels. | $25,000 |
| New Jersey Conservation Foundation | Far Hills, NJ | To advance policies that mitigate climate change through natural resource conservation principles. | $25,000 |
| Vote16 USA | Newark, NJ | To support public awareness and education regarding the importance of including young people in civic processes in new jersey | $25,000 |
| Wbgo | Newark, NJ | To support a strong public media ecosystem in new jersey. | $25,000 |
| Rutgers -Bloustein School | New Brunswick, NJ | To explore the relationship between candidate election performance and campaign funding, incumbency status, and county party committee… | $22,000 |
| Adhikaar | Woodside, NY | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | $20,000 |
| Casa Freehold | Freehold, NJ | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | $20,000 |
| Lazo America Unida | New Brunswick, NJ | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | $20,000 |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance | New York, NY | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | $20,000 |
| New Jersey Future | Trenton, NJ | To advance equitable and sustainable housing and zoning reforms across the state through the convening of stakeholders to develop an action… | $20,000 |
| New Labor | New Brunswick, NJ | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | $20,000 |
| Resistencia En Accion Nj | Trenton, NJ | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | $20,000 |
| Rutgers - School of Mgmt & Labor Relns | New Brunswick, NJ | To support efforts to conduct a survey of new jersey restaurants to research the spillover effects of nj department of labor investigations… | $20,000 |
| Wind of the Spirit | Madison, NJ | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | $20,000 |
| Make the Road States | Brooklyn, NY | To support efforts to embark on a comprehensive strategic planning process that will guide the organizations growth over the next decade. | $15,000 |
| New Jersey Working Families Alliance | Monmouth Junction, NJ | To support a planning retreat to facilitate the growth of the we the people statewide democracy table | $3,000 |
| Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics | New Brunswick, NJ | To complete a poll focused on social and racial justice issues. | $1,111 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3,276,111 | 55 |
| 2023 | $5,584,068 | 69 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 4, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202513089349101316
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 22-1895028
- Profile updated Nov 5, 2026
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