New Jersey · Nonprofit
THE FOOD BRIGADE INC
THE FOOD BRIGADE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,817 to it, the largest being Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ($102,954). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE FOOD BRIGADE INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 505 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Rosanne H Silbermann Foundation Incportfolio match
- Americas Grow-A-Rowportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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: 2022 9% · 2023 5% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE FOOD BRIGADE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $0 → $69k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 BRIGADE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 23 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 BRIGADE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
85% 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 BRIGADE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 50% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.
“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
55% of THE FOOD BRIGADE 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. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
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 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundationshared funderslocalNJ · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 63 organizations near you
- The Rosanne H Silbermann Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americas Grow-A-Rowportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- CoreGiving Coportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hunger Related Eventsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Warrior Food Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding Pennsylvaniaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farmlink Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Living Hungry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caliber Collision Centers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lineage Foundation for Goodportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Means Database Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding THE FOOD BRIGADE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$20k
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 FOOD BRIGADE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% 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 THE FOOD BRIGADE 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.
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 BRIGADE INC?
- THE FOOD BRIGADE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,817 to it, the largest being Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ($102,954). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FOOD BRIGADE INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $427,817 in grants to THE FOOD BRIGADE INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOOD BRIGADE INC?
- Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc is the largest funder on record, with $102,954 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOOD BRIGADE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 23funders 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