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LUNCH BREAK INC

LUNCH BREAK INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,716,910 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($2,483,092). 105 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$6.1M
Funders on record
155
Grants received
$15M
Net assets
$8.9M
105/155 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Lunch Break Inc does

Mission

Lunch break freely provides food, emergency shelter, clothing and life skills to those in need in monmouth county and beyond. We seek to break the cycle of poverty providing support to those in search of healthier, self-sufficient and productive lifestyles.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Lunch break's food operations include: I) your choice pantry & ii) community kitchen. Your choice pantry is a food pantry that provides fresh produce and other healthy food goods to local residents via a communal distribution center. Community kitchen offers free, hot meals daily provided by a fully staffed kitchen that utilizes fresh and healthy ingredients. The organization is seeing increased demand for its food assistance programs as rising costs are putting financial stress on local families. Lunchbreak has also experienced rising costs of its food operations through fiscal year 2024 and relies on the generosity of its donor community to support their essential mission.

    $4,037,907 spent
    74% of program spending
  2. Lunch break's family promise of monmouth county (lbfpmc) housing program is a comprehensive case management program designed to support families at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Preventing families from falling into homelessness is an essential part of lbfpmc mission. Housing stability is the overall goal of all lbfpmc programs. Every family is assigned a case manager to help either prevent homeless or find and move into permanent housing as quickly as possible. Once moved into permanent housing, lbfpmc provides families training & other opportunities to continue improving household income, support networks and overall wellbeing. In 2024 103 adults & 207 children were supported through these programs.

    $607,032 spentof which $47,543 as grants$46,332 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  3. Additional lunchbreak offerings include like skills, clara's closet, youth services, health & wellness, womyn's worth and other services. Life skills provides personalized assistance for job readiness, resume building, professional presentation, interview prep, and effective communication. Clara's closet is community-driven and dedicated to collecting, sorting, and sharing gently worn clothing with those who need it most. Youth services aims to grow brighter futures with access to resources and opportunities to the young people of our community. Health and wellness programing aims to support and improve the overall health of the lunch break community. Womyn's worth is a specific program that offers life coaching and personal development to the women of our community.

    $840,928 spent
    15% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,485,867.

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 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($6.0M)2018 Revenue 107 ($1.9M) Expenses 117 ($2.0M) Net assets 97 ($5.8M)2019 Revenue 120 ($2.1M) Expenses 112 ($1.9M) Net assets 104 ($6.3M)2020 Revenue 390 ($6.8M) Expenses 304 ($5.1M) Net assets 135 ($8.2M)2021 Revenue 325 ($5.7M) Expenses 290 ($4.8M) Net assets 165 ($10.0M)2022 Revenue 290 ($5.1M) Expenses 334 ($5.6M) Net assets 149 ($9.0M)2023 Revenue 313 ($5.5M) Expenses 324 ($5.4M) Net assets 155 ($9.4M)2024 Revenue 351 ($6.1M) Expenses 403 ($6.7M) Net assets 148 ($8.9M)
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Revenue (351)Expenses (403)Net assets (148)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 $8.9M to $15M (+71%).

$6.1M
$5.9M
$6.3M
$8.9M
$15M
$16M
$11M
$10M
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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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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 17% · 2023 8% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of LUNCH BREAK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$81k
’17
−$75k
’18
$233k
’19
$1.8M
’20
$847k
’21
−$513k
’22
$71k
’23
−$581k
’24
9.9
months of
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

Gwendolyn O Love

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2221222222242828
Joined·+1+8+0+5+12+6+0
No longer listed·27051020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 79 funders, grant income rose $490k → $2.2M.

22 of 155 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 LUNCH BREAK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 155 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

LUNCH BREAK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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

48% 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 LUNCH BREAK INC.

17%
largest funder
34%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 35% · 2019 23% · 2020 31% · 2021 26% · 2022 20% · 2023 18% — 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

56% of LUNCH BREAK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

57% of LUNCH BREAK 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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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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

LUNCH BREAK INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding LUNCH BREAK INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $470k on record.

State$470k
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By state
  • NJ$469k
  • FL$202

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.

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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 12%Fundraising 7%

Governance

25
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • 109 James Parker Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC?
LUNCH BREAK INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,716,910 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($2,483,092). 105 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LUNCH BREAK INC have?
IRS filings report 155 organizations giving $14,716,910 in grants to LUNCH BREAK INC, 105 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LUNCH BREAK INC?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $2,483,092 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUNCH BREAK 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 155 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