Funding search · EIN 221895028 · Princeton, NJ
Fund for New Jersey
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 178
- grants reported
- $12.2M
- total given
- 2022–2024
- filing years
- $65,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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5 grants matching “hazardous” · $180,000
- $60,000
Hubb Orange · Orange, NJ · 2024
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
East Trenton Collaborative · Trenton, NJ · 2024
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
Paterson Alliance · Paterson, NJ · 2024
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
Paterson Alliance · Paterson, NJ · 2023
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
East Trenton Collaborative · Trenton, NJ · 2023
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
Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- New Jersey Policy Perspective6 grants · $815,000
- Salvation and Social Justice7 grants · $705,000
- Latino Action Network Foundation5 grants · $600,000
- Faith in New Jersey6 grants · $524,000
- New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice4 grants · $515,000
- Wind of the Spirit8 grants · $477,500
- New Jersey Institute for Social Justice4 grants · $455,000
- Nj Environmental Justice Alliance3 grants · $390,000
- Eastern Environmental Law Center4 grants · $390,000
- Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey3 grants · $375,000
Giving over time
Grant history
The 100 largest of 178 grants.
- $350,000
New Jersey Policy Perspective · Trenton, NJ · 2023
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $250,000
Faith in New Jersey · Camden, NJ · 2023
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $250,000
Latino Action Network Foundation · Freehold, NJ · 2023
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $240,000
New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice · New York, NY · 2023
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $240,000
Nj Environmental Justice Alliance · Newark, NJ · 2023
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $240,000
United Black Agenda · Cherry Hill, NJ · 2023
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $230,000
Make the Road New Jersey · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $208,500
Wind of the Spirit · Madison, NJ · 2023
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $175,000
Eastern Environmental Law Center · Newark, NJ · 2024
To provide high-quality legal assistance for clean energy, climate change, and environmental justice.
- $150,000
Salvation and Social Justice · Trenton, NJ · 2023
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $130,000
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice · Newark, NJ · 2023
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $125,000
Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey · Trenton, NJ · 2024
To advance policies that expand the affordability and accessibility of housing.
- $125,000
Neo- Philanthropy-Nj Alliance for Immigrant Justice · Newark, NJ · 2024
To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies.
- $125,000
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice · Newark, NJ · 2024
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 · 2024
To promote a more transparent state budget process that prioritizes the needs of new jersey residents.
- $125,000
Eastern Environmental Law Center · Newark, NJ · 2023
To provide high-quality legal assistance for new jerseys environmental sector.
- $125,000
Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey · Trenton, NJ · 2023
To advance policies that expand affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization.
- $125,000
New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice · New York, NY · 2023
To support strategic planning and diversify funding to ensure sustainability of the coalition.
- $125,000
New Jersey Policy Perspective · Trenton, NJ · 2023
To advance public policies that center communities of color and to advocate for a more equitable new jersey.
- $125,000
Nj Spotlight · New York, NY · 2023
To support high-quality journalism that focuses on critical policy, civic, and social justice issues affecting new jersey and local communities.
- $125,000
Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey · Trenton, NJ · 2022
To support covid-19 pandemic housing relief efforts, advance the multi-year rent campaign, and launch housed nj, a multipronged campaign to secure federal and state investments in housing.
- $125,000
New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice · New York, NY · 2022
To support strategic planning and diversify funding to ensure sustainability of the coalition.
- $125,000
New Jersey Policy Perspective · Trenton, NJ · 2022
To advance public policies that center communities of color and to advocate for a more equitable new jersey.
- $120,000
American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey · Newark, NJ · 2023
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $110,000
Salvation and Social Justice · Trenton, NJ · 2022
To advance a policy agenda that promotes integrated, inclusive schools and works to remedy systemic racism in public education.
- $100,000
Aclu of Nj Foundation · Newark, NJ · 2024
To reduce incarceration and to defend democracy, housing equity, workers' rights, and other policy initiatives.
- $100,000
American Friends Service Committee · Newark, NJ · 2024
To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies.
- $100,000
Education Law Center · Newark, NJ · 2024
To advance well-funded, equitable public education in new jersey
- $100,000
Fair Share Housing Center · Cherry Hill, NJ · 2024
To defend new jersey residents right to equitable and affordable housing.
- $100,000
Latino Action Network Foundation · Freehold, NJ · 2024
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 · 2024
To harness the power of grassroots activism to fight for a more inclusive and representative democracy.
- $100,000
Make the Road States · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies.
- $100,000
Nj Citizen Action Education Fnd · Newark, NJ · 2024
To promote economic security, quality affordable health care, and expand work protections.
- $100,000
Salvation and Social Justice · Trenton, NJ · 2024
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
- $100,000
American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey · Newark, NJ · 2023
To support work to reduce incarceration and advance voting rights and reproductive health care in new jersey.
- $100,000
American Friends Service Committee · Newark, NJ · 2023
To end immigrant detention and to advocate for immigrant-inclusive policies in new jersey.
- $100,000
Education Law Center · Newark, NJ · 2023
To advance well-funded, equitable public education in new jersey
- $100,000
Fair Share Housing Center · Cherry Hill, NJ · 2023
To challenge exclusionary land-use policies that perpetuate racial and economic segregation.
- $100,000
Latino Action Network Foundation · Freehold, NJ · 2023
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 · 2023
To advance voting rights and to protect democracy in new jersey.
- $100,000
New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund · Newark, NJ · 2023
To advance public policy solutions to promote economic security, quality and affordable health care, and consumer protections for all new jerseyans.
- $100,000
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice · Newark, NJ · 2023
To advance racial and economic justice, reparations, and voting rights.
- $100,000
Ramapo Munsee Lenape Nation · Mahwah, NJ · 2023
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $100,000
Salvation and Social Justice · Trenton, NJ · 2023
To advance the rights, interests, and influence of new jerseys black communities through grassroots organizing and policy advocacy
- $100,000
American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey · Newark, NJ · 2022
To support police reform, protect reproductive rights, and advance racial justice in new jersey.
- $100,000
American Friends Service Committee · Newark, NJ · 2022
To end immigrant detention and to advocate for immigrant-inclusive policies in new jersey.
- $100,000
Education Law Center · Newark, NJ · 2022
To advocate for adequate school funding, school construction needs, and equitable and diverse learning environments by serving as convenor of the our children/our schools coalition and working with partners on school in… read allTo advocate for adequate school funding, school construction needs, and equitable and diverse learning environments by serving as convenor of the our children/our schools coalition and working with partners on school integration efforts. less
- $100,000
Fair Share Housing Center · Cherry Hill, NJ · 2022
To expand affordable housing and challenge exclusionary land-use policies that perpetuate racial and economic segregation.
- $100,000
Make the Road New Jersey · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To advance pro-immigrant policies, workers rights, and youth justice through grassroots organizing and policy innovation.
- $100,000
New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund · Newark, NJ · 2022
To advance public policy solutions that foster health care access and affordable coverage, and increase housing and economic security for all new jerseyans.
- $100,000
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice · Newark, NJ · 2022
To support and advance racial and economic justice and to expand voting rights in new jersey.
- $100,000
Nj Spotlight · New York, NY · 2022
To support high-quality journalism that focuses on critical policy, civic, and social justice issues affecting new jersey and local communities.
- $100,000
Salvation and Social Justice · Trenton, NJ · 2022
For collaborative work with the racial justice coalition.
- $85,000
Eastern Environmental Law Center · Newark, NJ · 2022
To provide legal advocacy and expertise to advance climate resiliency, promote clean energy, and protect water quality.
- $80,000
Lead-Free Nj Newark · Newark, NJ · 2022
General support
- $80,000
Ramapo Munsee Lenape Nation · Mahwah, NJ · 2022
For collaborative work with the racial justice coalition.
- $75,000
Advocates for Children of New Jersey · Newark, NJ · 2024
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.
- $75,000
Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center · New Brunswick, NJ · 2024
To advance policies on climate and clean energy through leadership of the jersey renews coalition.
- $75,000
Green and Healthy Homes Initiative · Baltimore, MD · 2024
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 · 2024
To advance environmental justice through community organizing and public policy.
- $75,000
New Jersey Future · Trenton, NJ · 2024
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
New Jersey Public Radio · New York, NY · 2024
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 · 2024
To advance policies on climate and clean energy through leadership of the jersey renews coalition.
- $75,000
New Yorknew Jersey Baykeeper · Hazlet, NJ · 2024
To safeguard the waters and coastal communities of the hudson-raritan harbor estuary.
- $75,000
Nj Environmental Justice Alliance · Newark, NJ · 2024
To advance their work to support healthy communities by advancing environmental justice in new jerseys infrastructure, policies, and practices
- $75,000
Advocates for Children of New Jersey · Newark, NJ · 2023
To advance state and federal policies that support low-income children and families and improve childrens quality of life in disadvantaged communities.
- $75,000
Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center · New Brunswick, NJ · 2023
To advance climate and clean energy policies through co-leadership of the jersey renews coalition.
- $75,000
Green and Healthy Homes Initiative · Baltimore, MD · 2023
To eliminate childhood lead poisoning in new jersey through co-convening the lead-free new jersey collaborative
- $75,000
Ironbound Community Corporation · Newark, NJ · 2023
To advance policy priorities that center overburden communities and reduce the cumulative impact of pollution in the city of newark and across new jersey.
- $75,000
New Jersey Future · Trenton, NJ · 2023
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
New Jersey Work Environment Council · Trenton, NJ · 2023
To advance climate and clean energy policies through co-leadership of the jersey renews coalition.
- $75,000
New Yorknew Jersey Baykeeper · Hazlet, NJ · 2023
To protect, preserve, and restore the hudson-raritan harbor estuary.
- $75,000
Nj Environmental Justice Alliance · Newark, NJ · 2023
To advance environmental justice policy work at the state, regional, and local levels while working to build its own organizational capacity.
- $75,000
Advocates for Children of New Jersey · Newark, NJ · 2022
To advance state and federal policies that support low-income children and families and improve childrens quality of life in disadvantaged communities.
- $75,000
Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center · New Brunswick, NJ · 2022
To advance climate and clean energy and equitable transportation work in new jersey, and to provide leadership to the jersey renews coalition.
- $75,000
Faith in New Jersey · Camden, NJ · 2022
For collaborative work with the racial justice coalition.
- $75,000
Green and Healthy Homes Initiative · Baltimore, MD · 2022
To eliminate childhood lead poisoning in new jersey by providing leadership to the lead-free new jersey campaign; advocating for regulatory change, sustainable funding, and infrastructure updates while centering racial … read allTo eliminate childhood lead poisoning in new jersey by providing leadership to the lead-free new jersey campaign; advocating for regulatory change, sustainable funding, and infrastructure updates while centering racial equity. less
- $75,000
Latino Action Network Foundation · Freehold, NJ · 2022
For collaborative work with the racial justice coalition.
- $75,000
Latino Action Network Foundation · Freehold, NJ · 2022
To advance a policy agenda that promotes integrated, inclusive schools and works to remedy systemic racism in public education.
- $75,000
League of Women Voters of New Jersey Education Fund · Trenton, NJ · 2022
To advance voting rights and to protect democracy in new jersey.
- $75,000
New Jersey Future · Trenton, NJ · 2022
To eliminate childhood lead poisoning in new jersey by providing leadership to the lead-free new jersey campaign; advocating for regulatory change, sustainable funding, and infrastructure updates while centering racial … read allTo eliminate childhood lead poisoning in new jersey by providing leadership to the lead-free new jersey campaign; advocating for regulatory change, sustainable funding, and infrastructure updates while centering racial equity. less
- $75,000
New Jersey Work Environment Council · Trenton, NJ · 2022
To advance policies on climate change and clean energy, right to know, and covid-19 worker protections, and to provide leadership on the jersey renews coalition.
- $75,000
Salvation and Social Justice · Trenton, NJ · 2022
To advance a policy agenda that promotes integrated, inclusive schools and works to remedy systemic racism in public education.
- $70,000
Aclu of Nj Foundation · Newark, NJ · 2024
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $70,000
New Jersey Policy Perspective · Trenton, NJ · 2023
To dismantle structural racism in new jersey, through policy advocacy, political education, organizing, and coalition building, among other strategies.
- $70,000
Salvation and Social Justice · Trenton, NJ · 2022
For collaborative work with the racial justice coalition.
- $67,755
Rutgers University Foundation Eagleton Cpip · New Brunswick, NJ · 2023
To develop a poll focused on social and racial justice issues.
- $65,000
Faith in New Jersey · Camden, NJ · 2024
To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies.
- $65,000
Wind of the Spirit · Madison, NJ · 2024
To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies.
- $65,000
Faith in New Jersey · Camden, NJ · 2023
To advance racial, social, and immigrant justice while continuing to develop community leaders with the goal of liberation.
- $65,000
Wind of the Spirit · Madison, NJ · 2023
To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies.
- $65,000
Faith in New Jersey · Camden, NJ · 2022
To advance racial, social, and immigrant justice while continuing to develop community leaders with the goal of liberation.
- $65,000
Ironbound Community Corporation · Newark, NJ · 2022
To advance policy priorities that center overburden communities and reduce the cumulative impact of pollution in the city of newark and across new jersey.
- $65,000
Wind of the Spirit · Madison, NJ · 2022
To educate, organize, and mobilize immigrant communities to advance fair and humane immigrant policies.
- $60,000
Hubb Orange · Orange, NJ · 2024
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.
- $50,000
Aapi Montclair · Newark, NJ · 2024
To build a network of aapi organizations in new jersey.
- $50,000
New Jersey Highlands Coalition · Boonton, NJ · 2024
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 · 2024
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 · 2024
To protect the pinelands region and to promote responsible enjoyment of its natural resources.
- $50,000
Whyy-Fm · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To support a strong public media ecosystem in new jersey.
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