New Jersey · Nonprofit
The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc
The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,409,045 to it, the largest being THE HAINES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($3,275,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 97
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $16M
What The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc does
Mission
The cathedral soup kitchen, inc.'s mission is to help people out of food insecurity and champion their pursuit of stability and prosperity. Our vision is hope, success, and abundance for people in need in camden. The organization serves a nutritious meal six days a week along with social services provided in partnerships with other organizations. The organization provides meals and groceries to people in need in camden. Lastly, the organization provides job training in the culinary arts for free to eligible applicants.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The cathedral soup kitchen ("csk") serves individuals and families experiencing homelessness and poverty in the city of camden, nj and surrounding areas. It serves meals monday through saturday. In 2025, over 350,000 free meals were served on and off site. Csk also provides meals to local shelters and halfway houses pursuant to contracts with other local agencies. In addition, local partner organizations provide health and other social services at the csk site, and csk staff provide case management services. Csk also operates a culinary arts training program that trains low-income adults for careers in the culinary industry. Three 15-week classes that enrolled 64 students were held in 2025. Csk also provides off-site catering services in conjunction with its culinary arts training program. All income derived from the catering and contracts is used to support other csk programs. In 2025, csk initiated the "quiet" phase of an $18 million comprehensive fundraising campaign to support the organization's long-term mission and strategic priorities. The campaign is intended to secure both operating and capital resources for the renovation and expansion of csk's facilities, as well as the…
$6,320,039 spentof which $1,400,121 as grants$2,681,207 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,320,039.
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 2024 to 2025, from $13M to $17M (+29%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 6% · 2020 5% · 2021 10% · 2022 7% · 2023 5% · 2024 3% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Carrie Kitchen-Santiago
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 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 13 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $383k → $1.4M.
16 of 97 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 The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 97 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 Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
26% 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 Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 34% · 2019 45% · 2020 18% · 2021 20% · 2022 17% · 2023 17% — 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 The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
76% of The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $84k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$37k
- FEDERAL$26k
- DEDICATED$21k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$300
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 The Cathedral Soup Kitchen 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Cathedral Soup Kitchen 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 The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc?
- The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,409,045 to it, the largest being THE HAINES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($3,275,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc have?
- IRS filings report 97 organizations giving $11,409,045 in grants to The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc?
- THE HAINES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Cathedral Soup Kitchen 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 97 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