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Elijahs Promise Inc

Elijahs Promise Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,463,826 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($1,089,620). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.7M
Funders on record
84
Grants received
$4.5M
Net assets
$4.4M
52/84 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Elijahs Promise Inc does

Mission

The Mission of Elijah's Promise is to Empower Lives through training, education and social services, Invite Justice thru opportunities for community service and advocacy and Alleviate Hunger by providing nutritious meals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Agency provides nutritious meals thru several programs including a soup kitchen which provides free meals on a daily basis, a congregate family dinner program in association with other organizations, bag meals to go for people who are working or in education programs and a fresh food program for people living with HIV/AIDS.

    $1,938,383 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. The Agency also provides a Promise Jobs Culinary School which equips low income individuals for employment in the food service industry. In the past 12 years over 600 students have participated in the program and attained gain full employment.

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,938,383.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 97 ($2.2M) Expenses 99 ($2.1M) Net assets 101 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 102 ($2.3M) Expenses 105 ($2.3M) Net assets 101 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 116 ($2.6M) Expenses 94 ($2.0M) Net assets 129 ($2.6M)2021 Revenue 141 ($3.1M) Expenses 89 ($1.9M) Net assets 190 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 105 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 201 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 102 ($2.3M) Expenses 108 ($2.3M) Net assets 199 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 114 ($2.6M) Expenses 108 ($2.3M) Net assets 210 ($4.2M)2025 Revenue 121 ($2.7M) Expenses 115 ($2.5M) Net assets 220 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (121)Expenses (115)Net assets (220)Peer revenue range

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 $2.9M to $3.8M (+32%).

$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.2M
$2.9M
$3.8M
$4.1M
$4.2M
$4.3M
$4.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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Government-grant reliance: 2017 38% · 2018 11% · 2019 8% · 2020 10% · 2021 31% · 2022 31% · 2023 10% · 2024 18% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of Elijahs Promise Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,200 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$75k
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$22k
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−$2k
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$549k
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$1.2M
’21
$202k
’22
−$39k
’23
$221k
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$212k
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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.

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Joined·+5+7+0+4+3+1+0+2
No longer listed·52143102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $389k → $592k.

14 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Elijahs Promise Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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

Elijahs Promise Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

32% 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 Elijahs Promise Inc.

24%
largest funder
39%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 30% · 2019 27% · 2020 24% · 2021 17% · 2022 22% · 2023 34% — growing more concentrated.

“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

51% of Elijahs Promise Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

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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

65% of Elijahs Promise Inc's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Elijahs Promise Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Elijahs Promise Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record — $521k federal, $1.4M state.

Federal$521k
grants $521kcontracts $0
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  • Department of Agriculture$521k
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  • GRANT IN AID$748k
  • FEDERAL$486k
  • TRUST FUND$85k
  • DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$43k
  • DEDICATED$22k

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 Elijahs Promise Inc

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 14%Fundraising 5%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds Elijahs Promise Inc?
Elijahs Promise Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,463,826 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($1,089,620). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Elijahs Promise Inc have?
IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $4,463,826 in grants to Elijahs Promise Inc, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Elijahs Promise Inc?
THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,089,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Elijahs Promise 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 84 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