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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.

97organizations funded
$130,002median reported grant
$65.2Mgranted, 2024-2025
92%of grantees funded again the next year
6%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
15 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
42 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
71 grants
$250,000 Or More
51 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Newark Health DeptNewark, NJ$4,149,586222025
Ocean County Health DeptToms River, NJ$4,108,516222025
Jersey City Health DeptJersey City, NJ$3,539,716222025
Camden County Dept of Health and Human ServicesBlackwood, NJ$3,077,702222025
Monmouth County Health DeptFreehold, NJ$2,928,332222025
Gloucester County Health DeptSewell, NJ$2,540,645222025
Bergen CountyHackensack, NJ$1,846,953222025
Atlantic CountyNorthfield, NJ$1,791,704222025
City of Paterson Health DeptPaterson, NJ$1,785,012112024
Somerset CountySomerville, NJ$1,734,699222025
Burlington County Health DeptMount Holly, NJ$1,499,917222025
City of Elizabeth Dept of Health and Human SrvcsElizabeth, NJ$1,455,097222025
Mid-Bergen Regional Health CommissionTenafly, NJ$1,132,123222025
Cumberland County Dept of HealthMillville, NJ$1,107,801222025
Hunterdon County Health DeptFlemington, NJ$1,081,622222025
Sussex CountyHamburg, NJ$973,255222025
Westfield Health DeptWestfield, NJ$919,867222025
Freehold Twp Health DeptFreehold, NJ$871,651222025
Essex County Health DeptNewark, NJ$778,133222025
West New York Health DeptWest New York, NJ$777,593222025
Washington Twp Health DeptTownship of Washington, NJ$772,439422025
Middlesex County Health DeptEast Brunswick, NJ$759,905112024
Passaic County Dept of HealthTotowa, NJ$754,738222025
City of PassaicPassaic, NJ$754,017222025
City of UnionUnion City, NJ$734,089222025
Cape May County Health DeptCape May Court House, NJ$724,615222025
Union County Health DeptWestfield, NJ$701,749222025
Salem County Health DeptSalem, NJ$692,335222025
East Orange Health DeptEast Orange, NJ$646,798222025
Wayne Health DeptWayne, NJ$617,553222025
Plainfield Health DeptPlainfield, NJ$580,427222025
East Hanover Health DeptEast Hanover, NJ$574,678222025
Bloomfield Health DeptBloomfield, NJ$565,806222025
Vineland Health DeptVineland, NJ$565,161222025
Hoboken Health DeptHoboken, NJ$562,491222025
Rockaway Health DeptRockaway, NJ$538,146222025
Northwest Bergen Regional Health CommissionWaldwick, NJ$531,668222025
Mercer County Health DeptEast Windsor, NJ$527,081222025
Clifton Health DeptClifton, NJ$520,987222025
North Bergen Health DeptNorth Bergen, NJ$520,875222025
Middlebrook Regional Health DeptGreen Brook, NJ$495,169222025
Hamilton Health DeptHamilton, NJ$487,478222025
Twp of UnionUnion, NJ$483,328222025
Morris County Health DeptMorristown, NJ$468,169222025
Hudson Regional Health CommissionSecaucus, NJ$435,695222025
Warren County Health DeptOxford, NJ$414,419222025
Long Beach Island Health DeptBeach Haven, NJ$380,278322025
Teaneck Health DeptTeaneck, NJ$368,422222025
Hackensack Health DeptHackensack, NJ$359,907222025
Edison Health DeptEdison, NJ$353,412222025
City of OrangeOrange, NJ$353,332222025
Livingston Health DeptLivingston, NJ$334,592222025
Mount Olive Health DeptBudd Lake, NJ$333,131222025
Montclair Health DeptMontclair, NJ$331,974222025
City of RahwayRahway, NJ$329,699222025
Irvington Health DeptIrvington, NJ$328,763222025
Bernards Twp Health DeptBasking Ridge, NJ$324,690222025
West Windsor Health DeptWest Windsor, NJ$323,280222025
Englewood Health DeptEnglewood, NJ$317,995222025
West Orange Health DeptWest Orange, NJ$310,417222025
Atlantic City Health DeptAtlantic City, NJ$297,333112024
Kearny Health DeptKearny, NJ$297,086222025
Twp of Morris Health DeptMorristown, NJ$296,151222025
Fair Lawn Health DeptFair Lawn, NJ$295,228222025
West Milford Health DeptWest Milford, NJ$295,105222025
Princeton Health DeptPrinceton, NJ$288,604222025
Monmouth County Regional Health CommissionOcean, NJ$270,158222025
Ewing Health DeptEwing, NJ$260,634222025
Branchburg Health DeptSomerville, NJ$235,099222025
Montgomery Health DeptSkillman, NJ$227,096222025
Weehawken Health DeptWeehawken, NJ$217,729222025
South Orange Health DeptSouth Orange, NJ$217,044222025
Hillsborough Health DeptHillsborough, NJ$215,697222025
Essex Regional Health CommissionLivingston, NJ$215,064222025
Fort Lee Health DeptFort Lee, NJ$202,595222025
West Caldwell Health DeptCaldwell, NJ$201,321222025
Randolph Health DeptRandolph, NJ$201,275222025
Ringwood Health DeptRingwood, NJ$200,081222025
Hopewell Health DeptTitusville, NJ$198,963222025
Hillide Twp Health DeptHillside, NJ$196,307222025
Ridgewood Health DeptRidgewood, NJ$196,066222025
Lincoln Park Health DeptLincoln Park, NJ$182,791222025
Maplewood Health DeptMaplewood, NJ$174,193222025
Paramus Health DeptParamus, NJ$171,579222025
Secaucus Health DeptSecaucus, NJ$164,743112024
Twp of LawrenceLawrence Township, NJ$154,862222025
Nutley Health DeptNutley, NJ$149,483222025
Morristown Health DeptMorristown, NJ$144,576222025
City of TrentonTrenton, NJ$132,558112024
Montville Health DeptMontville, NJ$129,561222025
Dover Health DeptDover, NJ$102,235222025
Clark Health DeptClark, NJ$93,330222025
Guttenberg Board of HealthGuttenberg, NJ$90,122112024
Mahwah TownshipMahwah, NJ$76,202112025
Linden Health DeptLinden, NJ$65,448112024
South Brunswick Health DeptMonmouth Junction, NJ$63,206112024
East WindsorEast Windsor, NJ$45,032112025

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.

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202497$56.7M$297,333
202590$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

Newark, NJ
$4.9M
Toms River, NJ
$4.1M
Freehold, NJ
$3.8M
Jersey City, NJ
$3.5M
Blackwood, NJ
$3.1M
Sewell, NJ
$2.5M
Hackensack, NJ
$2.2M
Somerville, NJ
$2.0M

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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.

Center for Technology and Civic Life16 shared recipientsSustainable Jersey12 shared recipientsFirehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsThe Leary Firefighters Foundation5 shared recipientsNew Jersey Council for the Humanities4 shared recipientsAmerican Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporation4 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New Jersey.
  4. 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

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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