· Public charity
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 97 grants below total $3,581,007 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $163,877,379 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $160,296,372 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k61 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+1 grant · $399k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mercer Street Friends Food Bank | $399,494 |
| America's Grow-A-Row | $200,000 |
| Norwescap Inc | $152,917 |
| Cathedral Community Development Corporation | $108,109 |
| Visions and Pathways | $107,516 |
| Newark Bible Fellowship Church | $106,202 |
| MEND Hunger Relief Network | $104,095 |
| Solid Rock Baptist Church Food Pantry | $103,892 |
| First Prebyterian Church of Metuchan | $99,900 |
| Greater Refuge Church | $98,375 |
| GRACE Giving and Receiving Assistance for our Comm | $98,295 |
| Families for Families | $97,960 |
| Franklin Food Bank | $95,000 |
| St Cecelia Food Pantry | $88,864 |
| The Food Brigade | $85,983 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $8.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
123 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 74 since wound down; 44 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CFCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +249%
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP FOOD BANK7× · 2019–2025 · $865k · revenue +238%- IFINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $791k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M
- GCGENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M
- DODIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Assist NJ marginalized residents
The organization's mission is to provide households experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, an opportunity to achieve stability by providing comprehensive shelter diversion/homeless prevention, or transitional housing…
The Chester Mendham Food Pantry provides local families in need with supplemental food and supplies. We have helped over 75 families.
To assist the homebound elderly/disabled of Hunterdon, New Jersey to maintain their independence by enhancing their nutritional health, thereby avoiding unwanted institutionalization.
To provide shelter, meals and case management for homeless families, as well as aiding the families in finding a home , family services and training.
The organization was incorporated to oversee the operations of a 180 bed extended health care facility located in newark, new jersey. new community health care, inc. (the "organization") was incorporated in the state of new jersey in 1983…
Organization is a food pantry and resource and referral agency serving people in need. Emergency financial assistance for people facing eviction, utility shut-offs, transportation and prescription assistance. After school program offering…
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.
The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…
The central jersey housing resource center (cjhrc), formerly known as somerset county council on affordable housing (sccoah), is a non-profit alliance of representatives from corporate and financial institutions, the real estate and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Joseph Social Service Center and the most unlike its peers is Hearts Matter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
323 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 323 of the 482 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Iglesia Cristiana Evangelio Completo ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds St Peters Haven Corporation ↗
- Who funds StJames Social Service Corporation ↗
- Who funds SAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds LEADERS WITHOUT LIMITS A NJ NONPROF ↗
- Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds United Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds POPULAR FOUNDATION COMM DEVELO ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Table to Table Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · The Tepper Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Victoria Foundation Inc · Americas Grow-A-Row · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Spirit & Truth Ministries Inc — 100% of income from government
- United Community Corporation — 45% of income from government
- Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc — 38% of income from government
- Neighborhood Health Services Corporation — 32% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Garden State Community Development Corporation — 30% of income from government
- Jefferson Park Ministries Inc — 26% of income from government
- North Jersey Aids Alliance Inc — 26% of income from government
- Visions and Pathways a Nj Nonprofit Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Tri-County Community Action Agency Inc — 23% of income from government
- Isaiah House Inc — 21% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Jewish Family Services of Atlantic County Inc — 6% of income from government
- Hendricks House Inc — 5% of income from government
- New Community Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Families for Families — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Services of Northern New Jersey Inc — 1% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.