New Jersey Health Officers Association
Freehold, NJ · EIN 22-3291284. Reported 187 grants totalling $65.2M to 97 organizations across tax years 2024-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 97 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 92% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $130,002. Half of what it reported fell between $89,990 and $323,114; the smallest was $8,860 and the largest $4,027,879. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newark Health Dept | Newark, NJ | $4,149,586 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Ocean County Health Dept | Toms River, NJ | $4,108,516 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Jersey City Health Dept | Jersey City, NJ | $3,539,716 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Camden County Dept of Health and Human Services | Blackwood, NJ | $3,077,702 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Monmouth County Health Dept | Freehold, NJ | $2,928,332 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Gloucester County Health Dept | Sewell, NJ | $2,540,645 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Bergen County | Hackensack, NJ | $1,846,953 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Atlantic County | Northfield, NJ | $1,791,704 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| City of Paterson Health Dept | Paterson, NJ | $1,785,012 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Somerset County | Somerville, NJ | $1,734,699 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Burlington County Health Dept | Mount Holly, NJ | $1,499,917 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| City of Elizabeth Dept of Health and Human Srvcs | Elizabeth, NJ | $1,455,097 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Mid-Bergen Regional Health Commission | Tenafly, NJ | $1,132,123 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Cumberland County Dept of Health | Millville, NJ | $1,107,801 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Hunterdon County Health Dept | Flemington, NJ | $1,081,622 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Sussex County | Hamburg, NJ | $973,255 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Westfield Health Dept | Westfield, NJ | $919,867 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Freehold Twp Health Dept | Freehold, NJ | $871,651 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Essex County Health Dept | Newark, NJ | $778,133 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| West New York Health Dept | West New York, NJ | $777,593 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Washington Twp Health Dept | Township of Washington, NJ | $772,439 | 4 | 2 | 2025 |
| Middlesex County Health Dept | East Brunswick, NJ | $759,905 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Passaic County Dept of Health | Totowa, NJ | $754,738 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| City of Passaic | Passaic, NJ | $754,017 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| City of Union | Union City, NJ | $734,089 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Cape May County Health Dept | Cape May Court House, NJ | $724,615 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Union County Health Dept | Westfield, NJ | $701,749 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Salem County Health Dept | Salem, NJ | $692,335 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| East Orange Health Dept | East Orange, NJ | $646,798 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Wayne Health Dept | Wayne, NJ | $617,553 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Plainfield Health Dept | Plainfield, NJ | $580,427 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| East Hanover Health Dept | East Hanover, NJ | $574,678 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Bloomfield Health Dept | Bloomfield, NJ | $565,806 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Vineland Health Dept | Vineland, NJ | $565,161 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Hoboken Health Dept | Hoboken, NJ | $562,491 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Rockaway Health Dept | Rockaway, NJ | $538,146 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Northwest Bergen Regional Health Commission | Waldwick, NJ | $531,668 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Mercer County Health Dept | East Windsor, NJ | $527,081 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Clifton Health Dept | Clifton, NJ | $520,987 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| North Bergen Health Dept | North Bergen, NJ | $520,875 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Middlebrook Regional Health Dept | Green Brook, NJ | $495,169 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Hamilton Health Dept | Hamilton, NJ | $487,478 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Twp of Union | Union, NJ | $483,328 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Morris County Health Dept | Morristown, NJ | $468,169 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Hudson Regional Health Commission | Secaucus, NJ | $435,695 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Warren County Health Dept | Oxford, NJ | $414,419 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Island Health Dept | Beach Haven, NJ | $380,278 | 3 | 2 | 2025 |
| Teaneck Health Dept | Teaneck, NJ | $368,422 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Hackensack Health Dept | Hackensack, NJ | $359,907 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Edison Health Dept | Edison, NJ | $353,412 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| City of Orange | Orange, NJ | $353,332 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Livingston Health Dept | Livingston, NJ | $334,592 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Mount Olive Health Dept | Budd Lake, NJ | $333,131 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Montclair Health Dept | Montclair, NJ | $331,974 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| City of Rahway | Rahway, NJ | $329,699 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Irvington Health Dept | Irvington, NJ | $328,763 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Bernards Twp Health Dept | Basking Ridge, NJ | $324,690 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| West Windsor Health Dept | West Windsor, NJ | $323,280 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Englewood Health Dept | Englewood, NJ | $317,995 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| West Orange Health Dept | West Orange, NJ | $310,417 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Atlantic City Health Dept | Atlantic City, NJ | $297,333 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kearny Health Dept | Kearny, NJ | $297,086 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Twp of Morris Health Dept | Morristown, NJ | $296,151 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Fair Lawn Health Dept | Fair Lawn, NJ | $295,228 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| West Milford Health Dept | West Milford, NJ | $295,105 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Princeton Health Dept | Princeton, NJ | $288,604 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Monmouth County Regional Health Commission | Ocean, NJ | $270,158 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Ewing Health Dept | Ewing, NJ | $260,634 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Branchburg Health Dept | Somerville, NJ | $235,099 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Montgomery Health Dept | Skillman, NJ | $227,096 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Weehawken Health Dept | Weehawken, NJ | $217,729 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| South Orange Health Dept | South Orange, NJ | $217,044 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Hillsborough Health Dept | Hillsborough, NJ | $215,697 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Essex Regional Health Commission | Livingston, NJ | $215,064 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Fort Lee Health Dept | Fort Lee, NJ | $202,595 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| West Caldwell Health Dept | Caldwell, NJ | $201,321 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Randolph Health Dept | Randolph, NJ | $201,275 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Ringwood Health Dept | Ringwood, NJ | $200,081 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Hopewell Health Dept | Titusville, NJ | $198,963 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Hillide Twp Health Dept | Hillside, NJ | $196,307 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Ridgewood Health Dept | Ridgewood, NJ | $196,066 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Lincoln Park Health Dept | Lincoln Park, NJ | $182,791 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Maplewood Health Dept | Maplewood, NJ | $174,193 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Paramus Health Dept | Paramus, NJ | $171,579 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Secaucus Health Dept | Secaucus, NJ | $164,743 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Twp of Lawrence | Lawrence Township, NJ | $154,862 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Nutley Health Dept | Nutley, NJ | $149,483 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Morristown Health Dept | Morristown, NJ | $144,576 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| City of Trenton | Trenton, NJ | $132,558 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Montville Health Dept | Montville, NJ | $129,561 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Dover Health Dept | Dover, NJ | $102,235 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Clark Health Dept | Clark, NJ | $93,330 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Guttenberg Board of Health | Guttenberg, NJ | $90,122 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mahwah Township | Mahwah, NJ | $76,202 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Linden Health Dept | Linden, NJ | $65,448 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Brunswick Health Dept | Monmouth Junction, NJ | $63,206 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Windsor | East Windsor, NJ | $45,032 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
87 of 97 (90%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- City of Newark
Enhancing/ Sustaining Public Health
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 97 | $56.7M | $297,333 |
| 2025 | 90 | $8,564,577 | $98,919 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $130,002 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New Jersey.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from New Jersey Health Officers Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 97 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1 Municipal Plaza, Freehold, NJ, 07728.
EIN 22-3291284 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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