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NEW JERSEY COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES INC

EIN 22-2520859 CAMDEN, NJ

Revenue 2024
$1,443,838
Expenses 2024
$1,379,131

Program services were 58.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A990
Classification
2000
Street
336 FRIENDS STREET

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

AT NJCH WE EXPLORE, CULTIVATE, AND CHAMPION THE PUBLIC HUMANITIES IN ORDER TO STRENGTHEN NEW JERSEY'S DIVERSE COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WE EXPLORE, CULTIVATE, AND CHAMPION THE PUBLIC HUMANITIES IN ORDER TO STRENGTHEN NEW JERSEY'S DIVERSE COMMUNITY.

  • GENERAL PROGRAM OPERATIONS: GENERAL PROGRAM OPERATIONS INCLUDE INFORMING THE PUBLIC AND SPECIAL CONSTITUENCIES, SUCH AS FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, ABOUT COUNCIL ACTIVITIES AND MAJOR ISSUES IN THE PUBLIC HUMANITIES, AS WELL AS ADVOCATING FOR THE VALUE OF THE HUMANITIES.

    Expenses $281,229 · Grants $251,166

  • GRANT MAKING: IN KEEPING WITH OUR PHILOSOPHY OF WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, WE HAVE DEDICATED A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF OUR BUDGET TO GRANT MAKING. GRANTS ARE AWARDED THROUGH A COMPETITIVE PROPOSAL REVIEW PROCESS AND PROVIDE CAPACITY-BUILDING SUPPORT AND EXPERTISE FROM NJCH STAFF. ALL GRANTS ARE MATCHED DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR, SO THAT OUR SUPPORT LEVERAGES PRIVATE GIVING FOR THE HUMANITIES. THIS WORK HAS RESULTED IN A VARIETY OF PROJECTS, INCLUDING CULTURAL FESTIVALS, LECTURE SERIES, EXHIBITIONS, AND DOCUMENTARY FILMS.

    Expenses $228,980

  • INFORMED NJ: WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NEW SCHOOL'S PROGRAM OF JOURNALISM + DESIGN, NEW JERSEY'S BLOSSOMING GRASSROOTS JOURNALISM COMMUNITY, AND NEW JERSEY'S COMMUNITY COLLEGES, INFORMED NEW JERSEY SEEKS TO WORK CLOSELY WITH COMMUNITIES AROUND NEW JERSEY TO CREATE A MULTI-VOCAL, RESPONSIVE, LOCAL JOURNALISM ECOSYSTEM AND TO ENHANCE MEDIA LITERACY AMONG COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

    Expenses $107,235

  • COMMUNITY HISTORY

    Expenses $64,595

  • SPONSORSHIPS

    Expenses $46,572

  • PRIME TIME READING

    Expenses $35,593

  • OTHER PROGRAMS

    Expenses $29,425

  • ADVOCACY

    Expenses $17,683

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.

  • CARIN BERKOWITZ PHD

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $165,379
    From this org
    $153,344
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,035
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,344
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,827
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,208
    Filer's total
    $165,379

  • HOWARD MARCHITELLO PHD

    GOVERNANCE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL KLEIN JD PHD

    TREASURER (thru. 10/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GREGORY WATERS PHD

    BOARD CHAIR (thru 10/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENISE COULTER EdD

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURA HERTZOG JD

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROL MURPHY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JACQUELINE COLGAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN MERCANTINI PHD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LACEY COTTER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AUDREY TRUSCHKE PHD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LOURDES TANGO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYNNE TOYE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK HONTZ JD

    TRUSTEE (thru. 10/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SIERRA AUSA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RAYMAN SOLOMON PHD JD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SADAF JAFFER PHD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARA SIEGLER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THERESA JACKS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TONY IACONO PHD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Blake PHD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALYSON WESS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • COLE CRITTENDEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY MARINO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TRACEY MANG

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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
    $1,443,838
    Expenses
    $1,379,131
    Contributions
    $1,420,827
    Grants paid
    $251,166
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,629,918
    Expenses
    $1,858,345
    Contributions
    $1,600,095
    Grants paid
    $502,615

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
    $1,792,531
    Expenses
    $1,765,464
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,590,463

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,357,693
    Expenses
    $2,017,831
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,675,580

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,147,194
    Expenses
    $1,792,001
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,209,996

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,139,606
    Expenses
    $1,149,464
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,729,557

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,111,359
    Expenses
    $1,067,306
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,678,029

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,094,989
    Expenses
    $985,375
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,668,437

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,001,707
    Expenses
    $924,047
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,615,191

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $961,776
    Expenses
    $851,746
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,407,211

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.