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Southern Ocean County Community Foundation Inc

Social need program To support food pantries and educate the public about basic food needs in Southern Ocean County.

$151k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$628k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $136,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $151,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,000 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.
$15,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$215k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEN'S KITCHEN AT ST MARY'S$21,000
OCEAN COMMUNITY CHURCH$19,400
ST THERESA'S FOOD PANTRY$19,340
CALVERY BAPTIST CHURCH OF PARKERTON NJ$16,200
ST FRANCIS CTR FOOD PANTRY$15,500
LACEY FOOD BANK$12,280
BOROUGH OF TUCKERTON DBATUCKERTON FOOD BANK$11,600
BARNEGAT FOOD PANTRY$10,600
ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,080
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%St Francis Ctr Food Pantry: $21k → 11%St Francis Ctr Food Pantry: $16k → 11%ST FRANCIS CTR FOOD PANTRY: $16k → 11%ST FRANCIS CTR FOOD PANTRY: $11k → 11%ST FRANCIS CTR FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$581k · 8 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$581k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

25%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SM
    ST MARYS CHURCH
    5× · 2020–2025 · $79k
  • OC
    OCEAN COMMUNITY CHURCH
    5× · 2020–2025 · $77k
  • ST
    St Theresas Food Pantry
    5× · 2020–2025 · $77k

Funded once

  • SP
    Starve Poverty International
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue 0%
  • SU
    STOCKTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • SR
    SOUTHERN REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARYS CHURCH: $78,600 · OtherST MARYS CHURCHOCEAN COMMUNITY CHURCH: $77,160 · OtherOCEAN COMMUNITY CHURCHSt Theresas Food Pantry: $76,940 · OtherSt Theresas Food PantryGreater Tuckerton Food Pantry: $69,200 · OtherGreater Tuckerton Food PantryBarnegat Food Pantry: $68,200 · OtherBarnegat Food PantrySt Stephens Episcopal Church: $67,680 · OtherSt Stephens Episcopal ChurchCALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $16,200 · Other+2 more: $20,000 · OtherLONG BEACH ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $73,260 · Human ServicesLONG BEACH IS…LACEY FOOD BANK INC: $69,880 · Food & NutritionLACEY FOOD B…Starve Poverty International: $10,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$473,980Human Services$73,260Food & Nutrition$69,880Housing & Shelter$10,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLONG BEACH ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $73,260 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLACEY FOOD BANK INC: $69,880 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetStarve Poverty International: $10,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budget
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 LONG BEACH ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LACEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Starve Poverty International ↗

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.

Wintrode Family Foundation IncNJ17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wintrode Family Foundation Inc · Reynolds Family Foundation Inc · The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Southern Ocean County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southern Ocean County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Lacey Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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