Fundholders at the Community Foundation of New Jersey recommended more than $100 million in grants
to worthy causes and communities in 2024.
This extraordinary sum was the lifeblood of hundreds of
local non-profit organizations, with more than 8,000 grants being awarded.
The Community Foundation offers a variety of charitable funds including donor advised and legacy funds. Families, businesses and fundholders leverage our resources and expertise to manage their giving and achieve lasting change. Our collective work not only furthers their explicit or evolving goals, it also simplifies the process of giving and amplifies their impact in our state and beyond.
Many fundholders and other members of our community designate the Community Foundation as the beneficiary of their philanthropic funds. In so doing, they signal the trust and confidence that they place in the Community Foundation’s ability to implement their charitable interests in perpetuity and to identify the very best ways to steward their philanthropic legacies.
The Community Foundation welcomes fundholders, funders, non-profit organizations and other community members to actively participate in our work. We believe that connecting donors’ philanthropic interests to critical imperatives in the state, and pooling their dollars with our own, allows us to have a greater collective impact on issues that matter to all of us.
The Community Foundation of New Jersey team recently took a trip to East Hanover to meet with the staff at the Mt. Pleasant Animal Shelter. For more than 50 years, Mt. Pleasant Animal Shelter has been providing exceptional care for…