· Public charity
Food Bank of South Jersey Inc
The food bank of south jersey exists to provide an immediate solution to the urgent problem of hunger by providing food to people in need, teaching them to eat nutritiously, and helping them to find sustainable ways to improve their lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $391,455 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $407,871 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,416 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $347k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOVING OUR CITIES INC | $25,000 |
| BIBLEWAY APOSTOLIC MISSIONS | $25,000 |
| GLORIOUS LIGHT CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CALVARY CHAPEL OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY | $25,000 |
| GREEN GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| THE WOW CENTER | $25,000 |
| MASJID FREEHAVEN INC | $25,000 |
| MIGHTY WRITERS | $22,271 |
| CATHOLIC CHARIITES DIOCESE OF TRENTON-COMMUNITY SERVICES BURLINGTON | $21,797 |
| OAKS INTEGRATED CARE | $19,021 |
| GREATER WOODBURY COOPERATIVE MIN | $18,947 |
| LADIES IN TRANSIT HOLISTIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $18,621 |
| URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC | $17,582 |
| KITCHEN OF HOPE (ST THOMAS) | $15,782 |
| TRANSITIONAL HOUSING SERVICES-PEOPLE FIRST | $15,182 |
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 (FY21–24, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k 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
- LOLOVING OUR CITIES INC2× · 2021–2024 · $190k · revenue +38%
- OIOAKS INTEGRATED CARE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +11%
- BOBeacon of Hope Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- COCITY OF LIGHT MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2021 · $16k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEYgraduated2× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +37%
- COCRUSADERS OF CHRIST ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
Jesus commanded, "love your neighbor as yourself." (mark 12:31) our ministry provides loving service to the poor and hungry. the organization will operate an ecumenical food pantry to serve those who need food assistance in york county and…
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…
Assist NJ marginalized residents
Religious Orginazation
Food Pantry
Helping Hands Ministry has expanded the outreach service to distribute more than just food. The lunch consists of a meat, 2 vegetables, salad, bread, desert and drink.
volunteer religious
Provide crisis, marital, family, drug and spiritual counseling to the community; operate a soup kitchen and pantry to provide food to the needy.
Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.
The primary purpose of our organization is to provide outreach to the at-risk, low income residents of the Philadelphia Metropolitan area by providing non-perishable foods, personal needs and informal education.
Community outreach and church services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beacon of Hope Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mighty Writers. 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 17 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 47 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
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 LOVING OUR CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds OAKS INTEGRATED CARE INC ↗
- Who funds LADIES IN TRANSIT HOLISTIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Beacon of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WOW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF TRENTON ↗
- Who funds CHERRY HILL FOOD AND OUTREACH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Christian Caring Center of Pemberton ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREATER WOODBURY COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN PROMISE MINISTRIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONAL HOUSING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds THE EXTENDED HAND MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CLEMENTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSWAY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Touch New Jersey Inc ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Bushels of Blessings · Ravitz Family Foundation · Philabundance · Td Charitable Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation 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 Food Bank of South 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.
- The Wow Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Oaks Integrated Care Inc — 31% of income from government
- Loving Our Cities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Diocese of Trenton — 2% 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.