Njii
Legal name: New Jersey Innovation Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471042118
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Newark, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9735965800
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,213,735
- Expenses
- $36,629,425
- Assets
- $60,658,606
- Liabilities
- $15,608,446
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TEIK C LIM (PRESIDENT OF NJIT/DIRECTOR)
- DR MICHAEL JOHNSON (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- TEIK C LIM (PRESIDENT OF NJIT/DIRECTOR): $912,649 total reported compensation
- JOHN PELESKO (PROVOST OF NJIT/DIRECTOR): $528,916 total reported compensation
- ATAM DHAWAN (VICE PROVOST OF NJIT/DIRECTOR): $504,774 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) is dedicated to leveraging the resources of the New Jersey Institute of Technology to accelerate innovation and foster collaboration among industry, academia, and government.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule onjii helps to turn ideas into workable solutions across four divisions: healthcare, mission-drive ai, defense, and entrepreneurship.healthcare the njii healthcare division supports programs that aim to revolutionize healthcare through data-driven transformation. We are focused on improving patient experience and population health while reducing the cost of healthcare with innovation, technology, and metrics.njii is the state designated entity responsible for developing and managing the New Jersey health information network (njhin) on behalf of the New Jersey department of health (njdoh). In collaboration with njdoh, we work with healthcare delivery organizations to help them participate and benefit from government sponsored programs. Participation requires data collection, organization, hygiene and processing. Learn more about how expert data services support participation.since the division was formed in 2015, our programs have served over 12 million patients in New Jersey. It is our mission to continue to further expand clinical data interoperability throughout the state while prioritizing top-level information security stature to protect patient and provider data. Mission-drive aithe njii lab brings together university resources and industry best practices. Together, we address today's business challenges while building a skills-based workforce to deliver them. Tap into the latest ai technologies without the need for in-house expertise or extensive resources. The njii ai lab leverages a decade of experience in providing innovative solutions to businesses and the state's only polytechnic university.defenseat njii, the defense division is mobilized to identify, build, and implement innovative solutions that identify and operationalize advances in technology. Using ideation sessions, njii works with industry partners and the department of defense (dod) to understand how new technology will be deployed and used. Njii works to support program objectives by providing design capabilities, workforce training development and field test support. The key outcomes are workforce development, improved protection of military personnel and critical assets, and improved efficiency of military operations.to achieve these outcomes, njii aligns and advances emerging technologies to operationalize them, with a particular focus on advanced manufacturing, contested logistics, and ai/computer vision. The programs implemented together have provided assurances for supplychain, soldier and officer safety, utilities protection and natural resource preservation.entrepreneurshiphigh impact science and technology flourishes at New Jersey institute for technology (njit) in our academic community yet often does not fulfill its commercial potential. While njit certainly has success with traditional lab-to-market strategies ip licensing and faculty startups the challenges to these pathways are well known and perennial. University ip is rarely developed with market needs in mind and, as such, potential corporate partners struggle to connect their business applications with our technologies. And njit faculty and researchers rarely find the balance needed for a successful university spinout and a career in higher education.recognizing these impediments, the njii entrepreneurship division has created a third pathway to deploy the njit ecosystem of technologies, capabilities, and entrepreneurs: a venture studio. Unlike a venture fund or traditional venture investing which invest in other people's companies the njii venture studio creates its own high-growth companies as vehicles for njit assets. The njii venture studio is the dividend of a 10-year track record of successful new venture investment and acceleration at njii. While the njii team utilizes this unique ability to support our homegrown start-ups, the entrepreneurship division also offers new venture acceleration services to support the needs of our corporate, state and community partners. W
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 75% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 65% for direct work, and 35% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.2%; rating input score 95; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -72.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.3% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $913K · 25 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.8M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 33 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 28 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.