How much does Food Bank of South Jersey Inc give?

Food Bank of South Jersey Inc reported 22 itemized grants totaling $391,455, out of $407,871 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 32 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.

What does Food Bank of South Jersey Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%), Public Benefit (17%).

Who are Food Bank of South Jersey Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Loving Our Cities Inc ($190k), Green Grove Baptist Church of East Berlin Nj ($51k), Glorious Light Christian Ministries ($46k).

Does Food Bank of South Jersey Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Food Bank of South Jersey Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, Investors Foundation Inc.

Where is Food Bank of South Jersey Inc based?

Food Bank of South Jersey Inc is based in NJ.

Food Bank of South Jersey Inc

Food Bank of South Jersey Inc at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$408k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$263kPublic Safety & Disaster$205kPublic Benefit$190kHuman Services$162kFood & Nutrition$121kCommunity Improvement$63kHealth$40kEducation$35kOther$0

02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 22 grants below total $391,455, the rows itemized in this filing. The $407,871 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,416 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $44k
$10k–50k17 grants · $347k

$18,947

Median grant

States reached

$26M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GREEN GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH	$25,000
THE WOW CENTER	$25,000
BIBLEWAY APOSTOLIC MISSIONS	$25,000
MASJID FREEHAVEN INC	$25,000
LOVING OUR CITIES INC	$25,000
CALVARY CHAPEL OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY	$25,000
GLORIOUS LIGHT CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$698k · 19 repeat orgs$396k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$698k

$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%

Still filing today

42%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

LO
LOVING OUR CITIES INC
2× · 2021–2024 · $190k · revenue +166%
OI
OAKS INTEGRATED CARE INC
3× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +11%
BO
Beacon of Hope Inc
3× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +198%

Funded once

CO
CITY OF LIGHT MINISTRIES INC
one grant, 2021 · $16k
TE
THE EXTENDED HAND MINISTRIES INC
one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -36% · 26% of their budget
HU
HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
one grant, 2021 · $15k

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.

04Its field

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.

Companeros De Comida Food Initiative Inc

Assist NJ marginalized residents

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Church Women United

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…

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Family Promise of Southwest Nj

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…

Human Services

Helping Hands Ministry

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.

Human Services

Two Ladies of Christ Inc

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.

Human Services

Bread of Life Community Services

Food & Nutrition

Chester Mendham Food Pantry a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation

The Chester Mendham Food Pantry provides local families in need with supplemental food and supplies. We have helped over 75 families.

Food & Nutrition

Community for Christ Outreach

Religious Orginazation

Housing & Shelter

Desire 4 Hope Inc

To reach at-risk youth and adults plagued with substance abuse addictions or homelessness by providing food, shelter and one to one and group counseling that lead to personal relationships for jesus christ. to provide christian-based…

Health

People Help Exchange Inc

Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.

Public Safety & Disaster

Believers Community Development Corporation Inc

volunteer religious

Human Services

Loaves & Fishes the Church Without Walls

Community outreach and church services

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beacon of Hope Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 47 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

10/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$561,671Public Benefit$190,000Human Services$173,168Health$53,222Food & Nutrition$48,521Community Improvement$45,250Education$22,271Philanthropy$15,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ29.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Food Bank of South Jersey Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Food Bank of South Jersey Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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