Riverside Cemetery

What Riverside Cemetery does

Riverside Cemetery is a privately held, exclusively Jewish cemetery located at 12 Market Street in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, approximately 10 miles west of New York City. Established in 1906, the cemetery occupies over 97 acres of landscaped gardens and tree-lined paths and serves Jewish families in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area. Its service portfolio is structured around gravesite sales, perpetual care, and ancillary end-of-life services, with tiered product areas including premium sections (Rebecca's Garden and Sunrise Court) and standard family plots ranging from 4 to 40 graves. All packages in premium sections bundle Perpetual Care, and Rebecca's Garden additionally includes a headstone foundation. Beyond plot sales, the cemetery offers professional landscaping and grave care, a professionally trained burial crew, and on-premises security, and supports families with downloadable prayer book resources and a published directory of partner rabbis, funeral homes, chapels, and monument dealers.

The company's technology footprint is modest and customer-facing: a Wix-hosted website (riversidecemetery.org) supports online invoice payment, a grave search application for genealogy and lot location, and a Yahrzeit calendar calculator aligned to the Hebrew calendar. The business operates on a direct-to-consumer model with no digital marketplace, no third-party resellers, and no enterprise contracts. Revenue is generated through three streams: one-time gravesite purchases (tiered unit pricing), recurring perpetual care fees included in or attached to grave sales, and professional landscaping and grave care services. The customer base is entirely composed of individual Jewish families and small family units, with no institutional or enterprise accounts disclosed. The cemetery is a member of the International Cemetery, Funeral Association (ICFA) and the New Jersey Cemetery Association (NJCA) and operates as a standalone entity with no parent company, subsidiaries, or institutional investors identified in available sources.

Name

Riverside Cemetery

Legal name

Riverside Cemetery

Website

https://riversidecemetery.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1906

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Riverside Cemetery is a privately held, exclusively Jewish cemetery in Saddle Brook, NJ, established in 1906, serving Jewish families in New Jersey and New York with gravesite sales, perpetual care, landscaping, and burial services across 97+ acres.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Jewish Cemetery Services

NAICS

Cemeteries and Crematories (812220)

akta.pro primary industry

Places of Worship & Religious Facilities Operations (Cemeteries, Retreat Centers, Pilgrimage Sites) (BPAGAJAL)

Keywords

• Jewish cemetery services
• Burial plot sales
• Perpetual grave care
• Cemetery landscaping
• Pre-need burial planning

Headquarters

HQ city

Saddle Brook

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Grave Site Sales: One-time purchase of gravesites with various pricing tiers including premium areas (Rebecca's Garden, Sunrise Court) and standard family areas. Packages may include Perpetual Care and headstone foundations.
2. Perpetual Care Services: Ongoing maintenance services included in premium grave packages or available separately, covering perpetual care of gravesites
3. Landscaping and Grave Care Services: Professional landscaping, planting, and grave care services for maintained gravesites

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Riverside Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery that sells burial plots across multiple designated sections and provides ongoing grave care, perpetual care, and landscaping for interred families. It offers pre-need burial planning alongside bereavement resources such as online grave searches, a Yahrzeit calendar, and downloadable prayer materials.

Product overview

Riverside Cemetery operates as a traditional Jewish cemetery service provider with a unified offering centered on burial plot sales, perpetual care, and memorial services. The company offers tiered cemetery areas including premium sections (Rebecca's Garden, Sunrise Court) and standard family plots, supplemented by ancillary services such as grave landscaping, an online payment system, a grave search tool, and a yahrzeit calendar calculator. All services are accessed through their website or on-site, with no modular or platform-based architecture — the portfolio represents a single-service business with multiple product lines.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rebecca's Garden Burial Plots Burial plots available for purchase in the Rebecca's Garden section of Riverside Cemetery, for Jewish families seeking plots in a designated garden area of the cemetery grounds.
• Sunrise Court Burial Plots Burial plots sold in the Sunrise Court section of Riverside Cemetery, marketed as a distinct area of the grounds for Jewish families.
• Family Area Burial Plots Burial plots in the Family Area section of Riverside Cemetery, intended for Jewish family burial arrangements on the cemetery grounds.
• Additional Areas Burial Plots Burial plots available in other sections of Riverside Cemetery beyond Rebecca's Garden, Sunrise Court, and the Family Area, for Jewish families seeking alternative locations within the grounds.
• Perpetual Care Service Ongoing gravesite maintenance and care service bundled with plot purchase at Riverside Cemetery, intended for families who want assured long-term upkeep of graves.
• Grounds Landscaping and Maintenance Grounds landscaping and maintenance service for the 97-acre Riverside Cemetery property, covering the lawns, paths, trees, and gardens that surround burial plots.
• Pre-Need Burial Planning Pre-need planning service that allows individuals to arrange and pay for their burial plot and related cemetery services in advance of need, with terms and conditions governing the arrangement.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100+ years of service

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• ICFA (International Cemetery, Funeral Association)minorOthersMember of the International Cemetery, Funeral Association, indicating adherence to industry standards and best practices.
• NJCA (New Jersey Cemetery Association)minorOthersMember of the New Jersey Cemetery Association, demonstrating commitment to state-level industry standards and professional practices.
• Rabbis and Funeral HomescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorProvides comprehensive list of qualified rabbis, funeral homes, chapels and monument dealers for burials and unveilings, facilitating referrals to Riverside Cemetery services.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Mount Hebron Cemetery: Large Jewish cemetery in Queens, NY offering burial plots, perpetual care, and mausoleum options to the NY Jewish community — a head-to-head competitor for the same NJ/NY Jewish family segment as Riverside.
• Salem Fields Cemetery: Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn, NY serving observant Jewish families with traditional burial plots — comparable in religious specialization, community focus, and metro-NY customer base to Riverside.
• New Montefiore Cemetery: Jewish cemetery on Long Island serving the NY metro Jewish community with burial plots, perpetual care, and pre-planning services — directly comparable to Riverside in customer base, religious specialization, and product mix.
• Baron Hirsch Cemetery: Historic Jewish cemetery on Staten Island, NY serving Orthodox and traditional Jewish families — directly comparable in religious specialization, perpetual care offerings, and NY metro catchment to Riverside Cemetery.
• Cedar Park Cemetery: Jewish cemetery in Paramus, NJ — geographically and demographically the closest direct competitor to Riverside, serving the same Bergen County / North Jersey Jewish community with burial plots and perpetual care.

Broad incumbents

• Carriage Services: Public death-care operator with cemetery and funeral home holdings across multiple U.S. states — comparable as a cemetery operator in the same broader industry, but operates as a portfolio platform rather than a single-site religious specialist.
• Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries: Large multi-site memorial park operator primarily in Southern California — broad incumbent in cemetery operations with overlapping perpetual care, landscaping, and pre-need services, but serves a different region and broader (non-Jewish-specific) market.
• StoneMor Partners: Public, multi-site cemetery and funeral home operator with hundreds of locations across the U.S. — operates broadly in the same death-care category as Riverside but as a diversified platform rather than a single-site Jewish specialist.
• Service Corporation International (SCI): Largest publicly traded death-care operator in North America (Dignity Memorial brand) — broad incumbent in cemetery and funeral services with overlapping capabilities but serving all faiths and geographies rather than Riverside's focused niche.

Regional players

• Mount Sinai Memorial Park: Jewish cemetery and mortuary complex in Hollywood Hills, CA — comparable in exclusive-Jewish positioning, premium tiered sections, and digital tools, but serves the West Coast rather than directly competing with Riverside's NJ/NY catchment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/riversidecemeterynj
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/riverside-cemetery

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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