· Private foundation
Bbb for Life Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETHEL AME CHURCH | $40,000 |
| MARKET STREET MISSION INC | $7,500 |
| LUNCH BREAK | $5,000 |
| 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND | $4,500 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF MONMOUTH COUN | $4,250 |
| HABCORE | $4,000 |
| ENOSIS THE LEADERSHIP NETWORK | $3,000 |
| FREEHOLD AREA OPEN DOOR INC | $3,000 |
| MERCY CENTER | $3,000 |
| OCEANS FAMILY SUCCESS CENTER | $2,700 |
| INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| OPEN DOOR RECOVERY CENTER | $2,000 |
| YOUTH DREAMERS INC | $2,000 |
| JERSEY CITY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +150% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
LUNCH BREAK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +251%
HABCORE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +150%- ININTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC5× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- RRINGSIDEone grant, 2018 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- RBRED BANK MENS CLUBone grant, 2022 · $13k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide food, clothing, household goods and other services to people in need who live in montclair, nj and other neighboring communities in essex county
The organizaton operates daily and weekly food pantries in bridgewater, bound brook, somerville, manville, north plainfield and the va in lyons(all in somerest county, new jersey). the organization meets emergency food needs on a daily…
To address food insecurity in Hudson County NJ
Our mission is to promote the health and well-being of our Hunterdon County community. We offer choices of nutritious foods and essentials, foster resource connections, provide tailored programming, and respect the dignity of our neighbors…
Provides services and programs for the relief for the poor, distressed, or underprivileged for the residents of cape may county, nj
Provide food, shelter and instruction to those individuals and families in need within the community. Promote a pathway to self sufficiency which includes income stabilization and permanent housing.
To provide food and transitional housing to low income/homeless families and individuals in franklin and surrounding counties in pa
Provide emergency shelter for individuals who have become homeless, and a community meal program 7 days per week and social services case management and referrals as requested.
Prevent homelessness on lower cape cod
When a family is in crisis, Bridges is there to offer support by providing respite and host homes for children in our community. Children visit respite homes for several hours after school or on weekends to enjoy the benefit of a nurturing…
Midland's Open Door (MOD) operates two crisis shelters, one for women and children and one for men. MOD's programs are designed to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by providing a safe and loving environment where each…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds HABCORE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MERCY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds Freehold Area Open Door Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUR GRANDMOTHERS CUPBOARD ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Stone Foundation of New Jersey · The Amboy Foundation · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bbb for Life Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bbb for Life Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 180 Turning Lives Around: 61% of income from government
- Habcore Inc: 50% of income from government
- Mercy Center Corporation: 21% of income from government
- Interfaith Neighbors Inc: 9% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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