New Jersey · Private foundation
Fishes & Loaves Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $104k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $57,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $577k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Fishes & Loaves Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $102k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $76k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $85k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $95k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $67k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $90k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $65k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $71k | 54% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Needs Food Pantry Inc | $272,393 | 9 | 2% |
| Montclair Film Festival Inc | $47,500 | 5 | 0% |
| KLL Memorial Scholarship Foundation | $35,000 | 7 | 13% |
| Montclair Scholarship Fund | $29,750 | 8 | 4% |
| Spectrum360 | $25,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $17,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Yale University | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Yale University | $9,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The a Partners Dba the Antioch Partners | $3,995 | 1 | 0% |
| The Lamp Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Needs Food Pantry Inc | $272,393 | 9 | 2% |
| Montclair Film Festival Inc | $47,500 | 5 | 0% |
| KLL Memorial Scholarship Foundation | $35,000 | 7 | 13% |
| Montclair Scholarship Fund | $29,750 | 8 | 4% |
| Spectrum360 | $25,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $17,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Yale University | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Yale University | $9,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The a Partners Dba the Antioch Partners | $3,995 | 1 | 0% |
| The Lamp Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Out Montclair Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Cooper School | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Montclair Police Foundation Corp | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $1,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Concussion Legacy Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eva's Village Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Play for Pink Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Montclair High School Project Graduation Boosters Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Galveston Bay Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($247k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fishes & Loaves Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Fishes & Loaves Foundation
- How much does Fishes & Loaves Foundation give?
- Fishes & Loaves Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $103,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fishes & Loaves Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (37%), Education (14%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Fishes & Loaves Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Human Needs Food Pantry Inc ($272k), Montclair Film Festival Inc ($48k), KLL Memorial Scholarship Foundation ($35k).
- Does Fishes & Loaves Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fishes & Loaves Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fishes & Loaves Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc, Investors Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey.
- Where is Fishes & Loaves Foundation based?
- Fishes & Loaves Foundation is based in NJ.
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