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CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY
CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 169 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,543,184 to it, the largest being ORITANI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,417,037). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 169
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Center for Food Action in New Jersey does
Mission
The mission of the center for food action is to "prevent hunger and homelessness and improve the lives of individuals and families living in poverty."
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Center for food action provides emergency and supplementary food packages to low income individuals and families in an effort to reduce hunger and food insecurity.
$9,189,976 spent77% of program spendingCenter for food action impacts low-income families and individuals from over 100 towns in northern new jersey. Cfa provides a wide range of emergency and case management services so that our neighbors in need are able to keep a roof over their heads, keep their lights and gas on, and heat their homes. Our advocates help provide information, referrals, counseling, assistance in accessing public programs and other community services needed to help improve their lives.
$946,386 spent8% of program spendingCenter for food action provides emergnecy and supplementary food packages to low income individuals and families and assists them with their housing and utility costs while working to reduce hunger and homelessness.
$1,828,270 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,964,632.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.5M to $23M (+408%).
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 6% · 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 8% · 2021 6% · 2022 13% · 2023 9% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Nicole A Davis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 61 funders, grant income rose $304k → $1.1M.
24 of 169 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 169 funders by total. 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
CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
50% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 32% · 2019 32% · 2020 28% · 2021 45% · 2022 13% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
43% of CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$49k
- Department of Agriculture$16k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY
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
91% 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 CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: 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 CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY?
- CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 169 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,543,184 to it, the largest being ORITANI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,417,037). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY have?
- IRS filings report 169 organizations giving $9,543,184 in grants to CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY, 94 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY?
- ORITANI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,417,037 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY 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 169 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