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SUSTAINABLE JERSEY INC

EIN 45-3848336 LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ

Revenue 2024
$3,046,693
Expenses 2024
$2,566,668

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

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C01
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 6855

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SUSTAINABLE JERSEY'S MISSION IS TO EMPOWER NEW JERSEY COMMUNITIES TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS WITH THE TOOLS, TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND FINANCIAL INCENTIVES NECESSARY TO PURSUE CRITICAL SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES.

  • 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.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • CAROLINE EHRLICH

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TERENCE WALL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAOLA TORO ESQ

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROLYN BROWN-DANCY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BEATRICE DAGGETT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARNETTE FREDERIC

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL WILLIAMS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WANDA MONAHAN ESQ

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL SALVATORE PHD

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TIMOTHY MCDONOUGH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARISSA MCKENZIE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LISA JIAMPETTI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EDWARD MAHANEY JR EDD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEN BECKER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SEAN MORIARTY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TONY PERRY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICOLE SWAN-BENNETT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RANDALL SOLOMON

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $150,999
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $149,236
    Other
    $1,763
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $149,236 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $509 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $1,254 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $150,999 related

  • RENEE HAIDER

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $129,001
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $127,694
    Other
    $1,307
    Hours/week
    35

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,046,693
    Expenses
    $2,566,668
    Contributions
    $2,914,743
    Grants paid
    $587,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,373,373
    Expenses
    $2,558,388
    Contributions
    $3,300,936
    Grants paid
    $632,406
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,533,563
    Expenses
    $2,701,009
    Contributions
    $2,545,940
    Grants paid
    $455,870

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,226,325
    Expenses
    $2,544,677
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,977,335

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,210,543
    Expenses
    $2,339,510
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,402,461

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,286,395
    Expenses
    $2,338,559
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,200,135

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,254,496
    Expenses
    $2,044,603
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,190,138

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,799,910
    Expenses
    $2,077,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,658,778

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,799,910
    Expenses
    $2,077,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,658,778

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,044,737
    Expenses
    $1,953,835
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,820,049

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,601,623
    Expenses
    $1,939,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,653,164

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,841,012
    Expenses
    $1,798,012
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,819,798

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $999,461
    Expenses
    $914,581
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,643,558

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.