Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$3,046,693

Total expenses

$2,566,668

Contributions and grants received

$2,914,743

Grants paid

$587,500

Program service revenue

$62,040

Investment income

$135,255

Other revenue

-$65,345

Total assets, end of year

$4,260,992

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,494,687

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$2,766,305

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$2,203,554

Management and general expenses

$137,573

Fundraising expenses

$225,541

Program service expenses (Part III)

$2,203,554

Program services were 85.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• MUNICIPAL CERTIFICATION PROGRAM:SUSTAINABLE JERSEY, LAUNCHED IN 2009, IS A FREE MUNICIPAL CERTIFICATION PROGRAM THAT IDENTIFIES SPECIFIC ACTIONS COMMUNITIES CAN TAKE TO BE MORE SUSTAINABLE, ADDRESS THE CAUSES AND IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, SAVE MONEY, AND SUSTAIN THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE OVER THE LONG TERM. BY THE END OF CALENDAR YEAR 2025, 468 NEW JERSEY MUNICIPALITIES (REPRESENTING 83% OF THE STATE) WERE REGISTERED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM AND WERE WORKING TO IMPLEMENT SUSTAINABILITY MEASURES WITH 191 CERTIFIED. IN ADDITION TO CERTIFICATION, MUNICIPALITIES CAN EARN GOLD STARS IN KEY DIMENSIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY SUCH AS ENERGY, HEALTH AND WATER. SINCE ITS INCEPTION, NEW JERSEY MUNICIPALITIES HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED 19,637 PROGRAM ACTIONS AND ACHIEVED 6 GOLD STARS.IN 2014, SUSTAINABLE JERSEY LAUNCHED THE SUSTAINABLE JERSEY FOR SCHOOLS CERTIFICATION PROGRAM IN COLLABORATION WITH LEADING NEW JERSEY SCHOOL-FOCUSED ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING THE NEW JERSEY SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION AND THE NEW JERSEY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. IT IS IS A FREE, VOLUNTARY CERTIFICATION PROGRAM FOR NEW JERSEY PRE-KINDERGARTEN THROUGH TWELFTH-GRADE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. BY THE END OF CALENDAR YEAR 2025, 67% ON NEW JERSEY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT WERE PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM, 367 SCHOOLS WERE CERTIFIED WITH 58 ALSO EARNING DIGITAL SCHOOLS STAR RECOGNITION. COLLECTIVELY, SCHOOLS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DOCUMENTED OVER 10,614 PROGRAM ACTIONS.

  Expenses $550,110 · Revenue $62,040

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $622,874 · Grants $587,500

• SUSTAINABLE JERSEY ALSO COLLABORATES WITH STATE AGENCIES, NON-PROFITS, FOUNDATIONS, AND CORPORATIONS TO SUPPORT THEIR WORK. IN FY 2025 THIS INCLUDED HELPING MUNICIPALITIES TO BECOME MORE BIKE AND WALK FRIENDLY; ASSISTING MUNICIPALITIES AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF STATE AND FEDERAL INCENTIVES TO REDUCE THEIR ENERGY COSTS AND IMPLEMENT CLEAN ENERGY ALTERNATIVES, AND ENCOURAGING THEIR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES TO THE SAME; AND WORKING WITH MUNICIPALITIES TO COMPLETE COMPREHENSIVE CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED HAZARD VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS.

  Expenses $1,030,570

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• BELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP

  $20,000

  SMALL GRANTS PSEG 025 - MUNI

• HAINESPORT TOWNSHIP

  $20,000

  SMALL GRANTS PSEG 025 - MUNI

• HOWELL TOWNSHIP

  $20,000

  SMALL GRANTS PSEG 025 - MUNI

• LAMBERTVILLE CITY

  $20,000

  SMALL GRANTS PSEG 025 - MUNI

• MAPLEWOOD TOWNSHIP

  $20,000

  SMALL GRANTS PSEG 025 - MUNI

• SOMERVILLE BOROUGH

  $20,000

  SMALL GRANTS PSEG 025 - MUNI

• WINFIELD TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT

  $10,000

  SMALL GRANTS NJEA 2024

• WOODSTOWN-PILESGROVE REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

  $10,000

  SMALL GRANTS NJEA 2024

• BELMAR BOROUGH

  $10,000

  SMALL GRANTS PSEG 025 - MUNI

• CAPE MAY COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL

  $10,000

  SMALL GRANTS PSEG 2025 - SCHOOL

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY

  501(C)3 · SUPPORT ORGANIZATION WITH OFFICE SPACE, MANAGEMENT AND PERSONNEL SERIVCES · NJ

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

17 March 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.5

Source object

202630769349300923

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