New Jersey · Nonprofit
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 593 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,729,370 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($18,482,220). 367 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $214M
- Funders on record
- 593
- Grants received
- $84M
- Net assets
- $111M
What Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc does
Mission
We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The community foodbank of new jersey, a member of feeding america, is the largest anti-hunger organization in the state. This past year, the community foodbank of new jersey distributed approximately 111 million pounds of food to 800 partner organizations in 15 out of new jersey's 21 counties, resulting in more than 92 million meals delivered to neighbors in need. 33% of all food distributed was fresh produce. The community foodbank of new jersey's programs include: child and senior feeding, mobile pantries, resource access assistance, distribution of essential items including pads and diapers, chronic disease focused support services, workforce development training, emergency food distribution, and grantmaking.
$199,377,128 spentof which $163,877,379 as grants$2,534,814 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $199,377,128.
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 2020 to 2021, from $67M to $104M (+55%).
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 7% · 2018 21% · 2019 37% · 2020 40% · 2021 55% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% · 2024 54% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Elizabeth McCarthy
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Joseph F Dempsey Jr
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 103 funders to 252 funders, grant income rose $2.6M → $12M.
39 of 593 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $12M from 19 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of New Jersey); $81k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 593 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
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
65% 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 Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 23% · 2019 23% · 2020 21% · 2021 28% · 2022 23% · 2023 25% — 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
49% of Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 34 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc has grown faster than half of the 31 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 31 food & nutrition nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like Community Food Bank Of New Jersey 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
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Food Bank Of New Jersey 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 Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc?
- Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 593 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,729,370 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($18,482,220). 367 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc have?
- IRS filings report 593 organizations giving $83,729,370 in grants to Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc, 367 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $18,482,220 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Food Bank Of New Jersey 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 593 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