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MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC
MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC (New Jersey) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,817,103 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($375,500). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Meeting Essential Needs With Dignityinc does
Mission
MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITY (MEND) is a hunger relief network in Essex County, NJ, that works to advance health equity and influence systems-level change through collaborative, community-driven, responsive programming. Its mission is to strengthen community health by increasing access to fresh and healthy food. MEND envisions a community in which everyone has access to nutritious food and the ability to achieve their optimal health. MEND values Community, Diversity, Collaboration,and Dignity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Pantry partnerships: mend regularly convenes leaders from over 20 essex county-based food pantries, and provides support via advocacy and resource sharing, supplemental fresh and healthy food, and volunteers.
$1,117,606 spent50% of program spendingMend on the move: mend reduces barriers to accessing nutritious food in food desert communities by bringing fresh and healthy food directly and consistently to those who need it most, primarily through home deliveries and mobile markets.
$1,008,364 spent45% of program spendingFood & Health Equity Coalition. The Food & Health Equity Coalition of Essex County, NJ (FHEC) is a collaboration of 90+ organizations recognizing food insecurity as a key social determinant of health and working together across sectors and with communities to advance health equity and achieve collective impact. Officially launched in February 2024, MEND is the backbone organization for this collaborative.
$120,293 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,246,263.
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 2019 to 2020, from $254k to $1.2M (+358%).
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.
99% of MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Robin Peacock
Executive director
Board chair
A Jabbar Abdi
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $6k → $418k.
17 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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
77% 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 MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 100% · 2019 81% · 2020 36% · 2021 45% · 2022 20% · 2023 21% — 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 MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
56% of MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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.
Against its field
MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC: 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 MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC?
- MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC (New Jersey) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,817,103 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($375,500). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $2,817,103 in grants to MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $375,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC 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 49 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