New Jersey State Bar Foundation
New Brunswick, NJ · EIN 22-6074475. Reported 103 grants totalling $5,672,013 to 48 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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. For New Jersey State Bar Foundation, the IRS classifies it under crime & legal rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE I038) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 48 distinct organizations, with 28% 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. 71% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than 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 $22,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,396 and $45,000; the smallest was $5,800 and the largest $1,515,484. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rutgers Law School Alumni Association Camden | Camden, NJ | $1,576,366 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Seton Hall University | South Orange, NJ | $637,528 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Health Law Project | South Orange, NJ | $395,500 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Popular Democracy | Washington, DC | $347,700 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Covenant House | New York, NY | $316,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rutgers University Foundation | New Brunswick, NJ | $245,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nj Leep Inc | Newark, NJ | $225,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Autism New Jersey Inc | Robbinsville, NJ | $222,653 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of New Jersey Inc | Green Brook Township, NJ | $160,390 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kind Inc | Washington, DC | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Volunteer Lawyers for Justice Inc | Newark, NJ | $129,729 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Latin American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc | Trenton, NJ | $128,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Statewide Parent Advocacy Network Incorporated | Newark, NJ | $107,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fair Share Housing Center Inc | Cherry Hill, NJ | $102,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| YWCA Northern New Jersey Inc | Hackensack, NJ | $92,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Disability Rights New Jersey a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation | Trenton, NJ | $88,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Foundation of New Jersey | Morristown, NJ | $67,211 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Oasis Haven for Women & Children Inc | Paterson, NJ | $56,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| YWCA of Eastern Union County | Elizabeth, NJ | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Essex County Legal Aid Association | Newark, NJ | $53,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Meadowbrook Family & Faculty Association | Hillsdale, NJ | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cair Nj Inc | Newark, NJ | $47,896 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CROSSROADS4HOPE | Bedminster, NJ | $45,600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gi Go Fund Inc | New Brunswick, NJ | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Young Men & Womens Christian Assn of Newark & Vicinity | Newark, NJ | $31,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pushcart Players Inc | Verona, NJ | $27,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Clinton Hill Community Action | Newark, NJ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Salvation and Social Justice | Trenton, NJ | $22,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shore Clubhouse | Long Branch, NJ | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rutgers Law School | Newark, NJ | $20,765 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Legal Aid Society of Monmouth County 599 Lake Avenue | Ocean, NJ | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Public Interest Law Center of New Jersey | Newark, NJ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| League of Women Voters of New Jersey | Trenton, NJ | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Josephines Place Inc | Elizabethport, NJ | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Foundation | Newark, NJ | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Nj a New Jersey Nonprofit Corp | Florham Park, NJ | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arc of New Jersey Inc | N Brunswick, NJ | $11,990 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities- Diocese of Metuchen | Perth Amboy, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Promise of Sussex County Inc | Newton, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Puerto Rican Association for Human Development Incorporated | Perth Amboy, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Women Aware Inc | New Brunswick, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| YMCA of Metuchen Nj | Metuchen, NJ | $9,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arawakan Inc | Maywood, NJ | $9,685 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Education Law Center Inc | Newark, NJ | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hudson County Bar Foundation | Jersey City, NJ | $6,550 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Federation of Middlesex and Monmouth Counties | South River, NJ | $5,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hunterdon County Bar Association Inc | Flemington, NJ | $5,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
26 of 48 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 31 of 48 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | $294,264 | $27,500 |
| 2021 | 2 | $39,500 | $19,750 |
| 2022 | 21 | $492,136 | $16,250 |
| 2023 | 31 | $1,295,258 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 39 | $3,550,855 | $25,000 |
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
86% of its giving went to organizations in New Jersey. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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 $22,000 -- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from New Jersey State Bar Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). 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 38 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: One Constitution Square, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901.
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