New Jersey · Nonprofit
RESPOND INC
RESPOND INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,074 to it, the largest being F W & C S ADAMS MEMORIAL FUND ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Respond Inc does
Mission
Respond, inc is an agency created by community residents to enhance and promote the economic independence and general welfare of individuals and families residing in camden city and county. The mission is carried forth in the provision of comprehensive services in child care, rental housing and home ownership, youth services, employment, economic development and associated programs that help people help themselves.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The day care and early childhood education program provides care for more than 125 infants and toddlers aged two weeks to 2 1/2 years and for more than 250 preschoolers in a county-wide system of early care and education. The program makes it possible for parents to work or train for employment. Day care activities include the operation, under contract with the camden city board of education, of 10 abbott district classrooms for three and four-year old children living in the city of camden. Though the number of students was dramatically reduced due to the pandemic, respond strived to provide daycare services for as many children as possible and offered remote learning for children who could not attend in-person learning. In 2022, Respond Inc. Served approximately 52,218 breakfast; 52,533 lunch and 49,976 snacks to approximately 446 children.
$4,569,551 spent$3,353,288 earned by the program94% of program spendingProvides a job training and placement program to local students and seniors from the city and county of camden, placing the students and seniors with local businesses.provides employment and volunteer opportunities for 13 to 15 year olds featuring job shadowing, employability skills training, mentoring, and field trips to cultural venues. Though the number of students was reduced due to the pandemic, respond strived to provide remote learning for students who could not attend in-person learning. Due to the hands-on nature of the culinary arts training program the cdc social distancing recommendation resulted in closing the program.
$284,904 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,854,455.
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 2017 to 2018, from $4.1M to $3.6M (−13%).
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 60% · 2018 60% · 2019 51% · 2020 42% · 2021 53% · 2022 49% · 2023 51% · 2024 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of RESPOND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Vance Lofton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $5k → $3k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 RESPOND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
RESPOND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 RESPOND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
RESPOND INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
RESPOND INC's revenue grew 28% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding RESPOND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $34.6M on record.
- GRANT IN AID$19.8M
- FEDERAL$14.7M
- DEDICATED$44k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$2k
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 RESPOND 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Respond Meadows Gp Inc · disregarded
- State Street Housing Corporation · exempt
- Meadows at Pyne Poynt LP · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESPOND 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 RESPOND INC?
- RESPOND INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,074 to it, the largest being F W & C S ADAMS MEMORIAL FUND ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RESPOND INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $27,074 in grants to RESPOND INC.
- Who is the largest funder of RESPOND INC?
- F W & C S ADAMS MEMORIAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESPOND 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 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing