New Jersey · Nonprofit
FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC
FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,440,103 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($6,071,877). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 179
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Food Bank of South Jersey Inc does
Mission
The food bank of south jersey exists to provide an immediate solution to the urgent problem of hunger by providing food to people in need, teaching them to eat nutritiously, and helping them to find sustainable ways to improve their lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The food bank of sj operates a donated food center that distributes food to qualifying not-for-profit organizations and agencies who distribute food to food insecure individuals. During 2024 the food bank distributed over 23.9 million pounds of food. The food bank accomplishes this through program services which is its core program through which the organization purchases and solicits surplus food each year from local, regional and national food sources. More than 200 emergency feeding programs access this food daily to meet the food needs of the people living in food insecure households across the 4 counties it serves. The emergency food assistance program is funded by the state of new jersey through distribution of funds for the purchase of healthy and nutritious foods to feed people affected by hunger. Fbsj distributed more than 19 million meals in 2024, through direct distributions and its network of more than 300 partner agencies, and positively impacted over 185,000 south jersey neighbors.
$45,914,595 spentof which $407,871 as grants$504,880 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $45,914,595.
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.
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 $8.8M to $18M (+103%).
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 28% · 2018 26% · 2019 49% · 2020 50% · 2021 51% · 2022 39% · 2023 49% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Frederick C Wasiak
CEO
Board chair
Suzanne Ghee
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 69 funders, grant income rose $762k → $2.3M.
26 of 179 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 179 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
FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% 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 FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 31% · 2019 22% · 2020 28% · 2021 46% · 2022 37% · 2023 29% — 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
50% of FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
Government funding FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $102.5M on record — $1.1M federal, $101.4M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$970k
- Department of Agriculture$80k
- GRANT IN AID$68.7M
- FEDERAL$32.1M
- TRUST FUND$387k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$227k
- DEDICATED$61k
- STATE AID$15k
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 FOOD BANK OF SOUTH 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
99%
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 FOOD BANK OF SOUTH 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 FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC?
- FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,440,103 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($6,071,877). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 179 organizations giving $18,440,103 in grants to FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC, 95 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $6,071,877 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD BANK OF SOUTH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 179 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