NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C018

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 128

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

• THE NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION IS THE ONLY NONPROFIT DEDICATED SOLELY TO PROTECTING THE AQUIFERS, WATERS, FORESTS, HABITATS, FARMLANDS, WILDLIFE, CULTURAL RESOURCES, AND RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF THE NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS. OUR PROGRAMS ARE MULTIFACETED AND STATEWIDE IN SCOPE. THROUGH OUR TRENTON INITIATIVE, WE INFLUENCE STATE POLICIES AND REGULATIONS AFFECTING HIGHLANDS RESOURCES, WHILE COLLABORATING WITH PARTNERS SUCH AS THE PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE, ANJEC, NJ LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS, RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION, MUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION, GREAT SWAMP WATERSHED ASSOCIATION, NJ CONSERVATION FOUNDATION, PASSAIC RIVER COALITION, SOURLANDS CONSERVANCY, AND HACKENSACK RIVERKEEPER. TOGETHER, WE EXPAND EDUCATION AND OUTREACH THROUGH FORESTRY AND VERNAL POOL PROJECTS, OUR POLICY AND NATURAL HERITAGE COMMITTEES, AND GRASSROOTS SUPPORT FOR MORE THAN 100 MEMBER AND PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS.WE CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR STRONG REGIONAL MASTER PLAN CONFORMANCE, OPPOSE HARMFUL PROJECTS, AND PROVIDE COMMENTS ON RULES AND PROPOSALS IMPACTING THE REGION. INTERNALLY, OUR BOARD AND STAFF ARE STRENGTHENING DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND JUSTICE (DEIJ) THROUGH DEDICATED COMMITTEES, TRAINING, AND CULTURAL CHANGE, WHILE EXTERNALLY FOSTERING MORE INCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIPS. IN COLLABORATION WITH THE RAMAPOUGH LENAPE TURTLE CLAN, NYU LANGONE HEALTH, AND OTHER PARTNERS, WE ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE THROUGH INITIATIVES SUCH AS THE TURTLE CLAN HEALTH STUDY, FEDERAL RECOGNITION, AND PERMANENT RELOCATION FROM A SUPERFUND SITE.THE COALITION ALSO FUNDS CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS THROUGH OUR SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM, SUPPORTS HIGHLANDS ADVOCATES, FOSTERS A ROBUST COALITION OF INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS, AND INCREASES AWARENESS OF HIGHLANDS RESOURCES AND CLEAN WATER THROUGH EDUCATIONAL WEBINARS, OUR ANNUAL CONFERENCE, CAR TREKS, A GOLF OUTING, ART SHOWS, AND OUR OVER THE EDGE EVENT-ALL OF WHICH ALSO RAISE FUNDS TO SUPPORT OUR PROGRAMS.

  Expenses $481,636 · Grants $41,130 · Revenue $5,911

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $754,616

  Expenses

  $677,138

  Contributions

  $710,802

  Grants paid

  $41,130

• 2023

  Revenue

  $584,707

  Expenses

  $646,335

  Contributions

  $555,461

  Grants paid

  $27,130

• 2022

  Revenue

  $574,931

  Expenses

  $573,215

  Contributions

  $534,788

  Grants paid

  $15,000

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

  $573,537

  Expenses

  $538,841

  Assets (EOY)

  $592,577

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $661,637

  Expenses

  $528,878

  Assets (EOY)

  $524,659

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $641,514

  Expenses

  $484,435

  Assets (EOY)

  $523,983

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $441,088

  Expenses

  $470,511

  Assets (EOY)

  $312,058

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $499,016

  Expenses

  $475,022

  Assets (EOY)

  $324,485

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $475,715

  Expenses

  $455,869

  Assets (EOY)

  $476,830

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $429,413

  Expenses

  $416,572

  Assets (EOY)

  $401,718

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $430,526

  Expenses

  $405,604

  Assets (EOY)

  $399,527

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $358,118

  Expenses

  $386,430

  Assets (EOY)

  $358,963

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $348,973

  Assets (EOY)

  $279,643

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

• PUDDINGSTONE COMMUNITY CLUB

  $5,000

  2023 · TO OPOSE AN APPLICATION FOR MULTIPLE VARIANCE THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE DESTRUCTION OF A STEEP, DENSELY WOODED HILLSIDE, EXTEND THE LIMITS OF DISTURBANCE ON THIS DENSELY WOODED HILLSIDE BY AN ADDITIONAL 3 ACRES.

• CITIZENS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (CFSD)

  $5,000

  2023 · OPPOSING THE JAINDL LAND COMPANY 6.0MSF WAREHOUSE ON 600 ACRES OF PRIME AG SOILS IN THE HIGHLAND PROTECTION AREA OF WHITE TOWNSHIP. FOR PROFESSIONAL FEES.

• PHILLIPSBURG ENVIRONMENTAL WATCH

  $5,000

  2023 · TO FUND THE LAWSUIT THAT IS OPPOSING A SIZABLE WAREHOUSE FROM BEING BUILT IN DOWNTOWN PHILLIPSBURG ALONG THE DELAWARE RIVER. ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN ONE LAWSUIT, WITH ONE LAWSUIT THAT IS CURRENTLY BEING HELD IN ABEYANCE. BOTH LAWSUITS ARE AGAINST ORDINANCES THAT REZONE FROM RIVERSIDE RESIDENTIAL TO HEAVY INDUSTRIAL.

• WALLKILL HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION

  $5,000

  2023 · OPPOSING THE MILLY'S COURT APARTMENT PROJECT IN FRANKLIN BOROUGH, HABITAT OF ENDANGERED ANIMALS, WITHIN THE HIGHLANDS' FOREST RESOURCES AREA, AND PRIMARILY ON CARBONATE ROCK. SMALL GRANT WOULD FUND EELC, PRINCETON HYDRO.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY

  $34,450

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION

• NEW JERSEY LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND

  $20,000

  2022 · TO ESTABLISH STORMWATER UTILITIES ABILITY TO FUND GREEN AND GRAY WATER INFRASTRUCTURE

• MUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION

  $18,000

  2023 · PROMOTE RIVER AWARENESS

• MUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION

  $18,000

  2024 · PROMOTE RIVER AWARENESS

• MUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION

  $17,500

  2022 · PROMOTE RIVER AWARENESS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $17,210

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION

  $15,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT - 2023

• THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION

  $15,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $14,950

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY

  $14,250

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED GRANT TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATION'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

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

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