Jumpstart New Jersey Angel Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463077589
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Highlands, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9086017278
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $89,008
- Expenses
- $99,090
- Assets
- $140,949
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- SHARON WATERS (MANAGING DIRECTOR)
- STEPHEN DYER (CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD)
- RUDY VALLI (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To: a) facilitate and coordinate activities of member angel investors, b) to screen potential angel investments in emerging technology businesses and other enterprises located primarily in New Jersey and the mid-atlantic region, c) provide a forum for education, mentoring, communication, and interaction of angel investors with entrepreneurs, government, civic organizations, universities and the business community, d) promote and support regional economic development in New Jersey and the mid atlantic by encouraging investment in new technologies and businesses, and (e) to hold, obtain, invest, dispose of, expend, apply, receive and administer funds, services and property for the promotion of the foregoing and related activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Conduct meetings to facilitate and coordinate meetngs of angel investors and emerging technology businesses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 54.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $99K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.