New Jersey · Nonprofit
CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC
CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,922 to it, the largest being TRUIST FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $96k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Camden Special Services District Inc does
Mission
To promote the revitalization of the city of camden through a joint public/private venture
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Activities provided by the camden special services district are intended to supplement and enhance existing city services for the benefit of the residents, visitors, employees, and businesses who rely on a strong and vibrant downtown camden. Cssd also provides similar services under contracts with private property owners, the city of camden, and camden county.core to the organization's function is a clean and safe program which provides the daily removal of debris and hazardous materials from public streets and sidewalks, power washing, curb line painting along commercial corridors by a team of ambassadors called the yellowjackets. As noted in the organization's published annual report for 2025, the yellowjackets removed more than 25,000 bags or 503,000 pounds - of trash from 153 city blocks, parking lots, and parks. Significant support for park maintenance for 2025 was provided by the reimagining civic commons program. The team also removed over a thousand bags of leaves.cssd provides enhanced landscaping through third-party vendors that includes hanging planters, sidewalk planters, lawn mowing, tree planting, and the greening of medians. In 2025 activities included three seasons…
$2,850,772 spent$776,987 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,850,772.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $851k to $2.3M (+175%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 18% · 2019 13% · 2020 75% · 2021 50% · 2022 79% · 2023 75% · 2024 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Angelo Alberto
Chairman & treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $550k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Miami Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC?
- CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,922 to it, the largest being TRUIST FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $95,922 in grants to CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC?
- TRUIST FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMDEN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing