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THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC

THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,540,549 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($350,485). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$5.2M
Revenue FY2024
50
Funders on record
$1.5M
Grants received
$3.1M
Net assets
30/50 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%

Against its field

THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($868k) Expenses 100 ($859k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 124 ($1.1M) Expenses 117 ($1.0M) Net assets 109 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 105 ($915k) Expenses 111 ($953k) Net assets 106 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 332 ($2.9M) Expenses 210 ($1.8M) Net assets 199 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 327 ($2.8M) Expenses 284 ($2.4M) Net assets 233 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 336 ($2.9M) Expenses 357 ($3.1M) Net assets 220 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 522 ($4.5M) Expenses 507 ($4.4M) Net assets 234 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 604 ($5.2M) Expenses 566 ($4.9M) Net assets 266 ($3.1M)
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Revenue (604)Expenses (566)Net assets (266)Peer revenue range

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

97% of THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,189 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
17
$74k
18
$38k
19
$1.1M
20
$398k
21
$153k
22
$174k
23
$374k
24
2.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $121k → $164k.

10 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)57% 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 FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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 FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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

62% 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 FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC.

23%
largest funder
41%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 42% · 2019 48% · 2020 34% · 2021 33% · 2022 23% · 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

54% of THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC'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 $657k that is directly attributable, 63% of it 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. $883k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 50 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New Jersey

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC?
THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,540,549 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($350,485). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $1,540,549 in grants to THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $350,485 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY 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.

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 50funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing