New Jersey · Nonprofit
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ (New Jersey) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,648 to it, the largest being ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ($75,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $178k
- Net assets
- $78k
What The Building Blocks of Nj does
Mission
To address food insecurity in Hudson County NJ
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Project expenses. Homeless daily meals + Inmate food supply , Providing homeless individuals across NJ with needed winter gear, supplies, and hot melas. Hot meals are served daily.
$35,340 spent45% of program spendingZakat distribution, minimal financial assistance is distributed to prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless. This would include but not limited to: short term rental assistance, utility bills, medical bills
$31,700 spent41% of program spendingfood pantry, distributing food to approx 250-350 families that are food insecure in Hudson county. We provide staples and essential food items to families that would last a week or two.
$10,938 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $77,978.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $39k to $78k (+102%).
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.
100% of THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $30k → $20k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 59% · 2022 96% · 2023 62% — 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
50% of THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ'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 $88k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ
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.
Public support
100%
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 THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ: 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 THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ?
- THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ (New Jersey) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,648 to it, the largest being ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ($75,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $177,648 in grants to THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ?
- ISLAMIC RELIEF USA is the largest funder on record, with $75,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NJ 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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