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Fund for New Jersey: 55 grants to organizations, $3.3 million (tax year ended December 2024)
Fund for New Jersey, a private foundation in Princeton, NJ, paid 55 grants to organizations totaling $3,276,111 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 4, 2025. The largest was $175,000 to Eastern Environmental Law Center in Newark, NJ for to provide high-quality legal assistance for clean energy, climate change, and environmental justice..
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- EIN
- 221895028
- Based in
- Princeton, NJ
- Assets
- $59,801,819
- Grants paid
- $3,276,111
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 4, 2025, IRS object ID 202513089349101316. It reported $3,276,111 in grants paid; 55 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Environmental Law Center | Newark, NJ | To provide high-quality legal assistance for clean energy, climate change, and environmental justice. | Environment | $175,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey | Trenton, NJ | To advance policies that expand the affordability and accessibility of housing. | Housing and shelter | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| 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 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | Human services | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| New Jersey Policy Perspective | Trenton, NJ | To promote a more transparent state budget process that prioritizes the needs of new jersey residents. | Arts, culture and humanities | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Aclu of NJ Foundation | Newark, NJ | To reduce incarceration and to defend democracy, housing equity, workers' rights, and other policy initiatives. | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| American Friends Service Committee | Newark, NJ | To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies. | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Education Law Center | Newark, NJ | To advance well-funded, equitable public education in new jersey | Education | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Fair Share Housing Center | Cherry Hill, NJ | To defend new jersey residents right to equitable and affordable housing. | Housing and shelter | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| 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 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Make the Road States | Brooklyn, NY | To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies. | Human services | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| NJ Citizen Action Education FND | Newark, NJ | To promote economic security, quality affordable health care, and expand work protections. | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 organizing, and policy advocacy | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| 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 disadvantaged communities. | Human services | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| 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 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 | Health care | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Ironbound Community Corporation | Newark, NJ | To advance environmental justice through community organizing and public policy. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| NJ Environmental Justice Alliance | Newark, NJ | To advance their work to support healthy communities by advancing environmental justice in new jerseys infrastructure, policies, and practices | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 collaborative | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 | apps.irs.gov | |
| New Jersey Work Environment Council | Trenton, NJ | To advance policies on climate and clean energy through leadership of the jersey renews coalition. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| New Yorknew Jersey Baykeeper | Hazlet, NJ | To safeguard the waters and coastal communities of the hudson-raritan harbor estuary. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Aclu of NJ Foundation | Newark, NJ | To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies. | $70,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Faith in New Jersey | Camden, NJ | To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies. | $65,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wind of the Spirit | Madison, NJ | To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies. | $65,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 impacted by lead hazards. | $60,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Aapi Montclair | Newark, NJ | To build a network of aapi organizations in new jersey. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | Environment | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Pinelands Preservation Alliance | Southampton, NJ | To protect the pinelands region and to promote responsible enjoyment of its natural resources. | Environment | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Whyy-Fm | Philadelphia, PA | To support a strong public media ecosystem in new jersey. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| New Jersey Monitor | Lawrenceville, NJ | To cover important policy and government transparency issues impacting new jersey | $45,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hyacinth Aids Foundation | New Brunswick, NJ | To address health care disparities, housing needs, and other comorbidities among the hiv/aids community. | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 impacted by lead hazards. | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 impacted by lead hazards. | Community improvement and capacity building | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| 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 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hopewell for Btba | Newark, NJ | To better coordinate progressive tax policy advocacy at the federal and state levels. | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| New Jersey Conservation Foundation | Far Hills, NJ | To advance policies that mitigate climate change through natural resource conservation principles. | Environment | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| 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 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wbgo | Newark, NJ | To support a strong public media ecosystem in new jersey. | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Rutgers -Bloustein School | New Brunswick, NJ | To explore the relationship between candidate election performance and campaign funding, incumbency status, and county party committee funding through data collection and research. | $22,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Adhikaar | Woodside, NY | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Casa Freehold | Freehold, NJ | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Lazo America Unida | New Brunswick, NJ | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance | New York, NY | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| 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 agenda on related issues. | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| New Labor | New Brunswick, NJ | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Resistencia En Accion NJ | Trenton, NJ | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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 into worker complaints. | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wind of the Spirit | Madison, NJ | To educate and inform new jerseys domestic workers of their rights and protections. | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 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. | Human services | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| 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 | Community improvement and capacity building | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics | New Brunswick, NJ | To complete a poll focused on social and racial justice issues. | $1,111 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Human services | $315,000 |
| Environment | $300,000 |
| Housing and shelter | $225,000 |
| Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $140,000 |
| Arts, culture and humanities | $125,000 |
| Education | $100,000 |
| Health care | $75,000 |
| Community improvement and capacity building | $33,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| New Jersey | $2,921,111 |
| New York | $230,000 |
| Maryland | $75,000 |
| Pennsylvania | $50,000 |
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Updated November 4, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.