Americas Grow-a-Row
Pittstown, NJ · EIN 26-2569598. Reported 127 grants totalling $9,215,233 to 59 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Americas Grow-a-Row, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 59 distinct organizations, with 24% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 75% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $19,085. Half of what it reported fell between $8,556 and $33,781; the smallest was $5,015 and the largest $689,276. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
127 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $9,215,233 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc | Hillside, NJ | $2,195,510 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| City Harvest Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $1,775,494 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Feeding Pennsylvania | Lemoyne, PA | $1,456,965 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Philabundance | Philadelphia, PA | $1,244,226 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Houston Food Bank | Houston, TX | $295,752 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Flemington Area Food Pantry Inc | Flemington, NJ | $257,533 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina Inc | Raleigh, NC | $127,932 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| North Texas Food Bank | Plano, TX | $124,580 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Franklin Township Food Bank | Somerset, NJ | $114,593 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hunterdon County YMCA | Flemington, NJ | $98,252 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Central Texas Food Bank Inc | Austin, TX | $95,234 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Interfaith Food Pantry | Morris Plains, NJ | $83,040 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Meeting Essential Needs With Dignity Inc | Maplewood, NJ | $79,701 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Fruits Farm Inc | Freeland, MD | $75,827 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Jersey Agricultural Society | Bordentown, NJ | $66,357 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sharing Excess | Philadelphia, PA | $62,685 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| El Pasoans Fighting Hunger | El Paso, TX | $60,480 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Delaware Valley Food Pantry Inc | Lambertville, NJ | $54,337 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Team Walker Inc | Jersey City, NJ | $53,628 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nourish Nj Inc | Dover, NJ | $52,445 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fishermans Mark | Lambertville, NJ | $47,949 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin | Madison, WI | $45,440 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Food Bank of Iowa | Des Moines, IA | $38,938 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc | Phillipsburg, NJ | $35,452 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Esperanza Health Center Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $34,313 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mountaineer Food Bank Inc | Gassaway, WV | $33,781 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc | Charlotte, NC | $33,356 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $33,356 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Louis Area Food Bank Inc | Bridgeton, MO | $32,105 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Feeding Charlotte Inc | Charlotte, NC | $32,004 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Freestore-Foodbank Inc | Cincinnati, OH | $31,286 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gods Pantry Food Bank Inc | Lexington, KY | $30,938 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regional East Texas Food Bank | Tyler, TX | $30,240 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South Texas Food Bank | Laredo, TX | $29,716 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $28,560 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hnc of Bucks County | Doylestown, PA | $25,767 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Methodist Church and Its Affiliated Organizations | Sacramento, CA | $23,640 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Walter Hoving Home Inc | Oxford, NJ | $21,688 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Americas Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $20,570 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Washington Assembly of God | Washington, NJ | $20,459 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Good Sheperd Food Bank | Auburn, ME | $18,144 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | West Nyack, NY | $17,100 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Manna Food Bank | Mills River, NC | $16,397 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee Inc | Kingsport, TN | $16,397 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pillar Ministries Inc | Zarephath, NJ | $15,187 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Urban Agriculture Cooperative | Newark, NJ | $14,986 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities | Portland, OR | $12,511 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Metropolitan YMCA of the Oranges Inc | Livingston, NJ | $12,384 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Table to Table Inc | Saddle Brook, NJ | $11,756 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lowcountry Food Bank Inc | Charleston, SC | $11,172 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Open Cupboard Food Pantry Inc | Clinton, NJ | $11,013 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Food Bank of Somerset County Inc | Bound Brook, NJ | $10,037 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $8,556 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cumac Echo Inc | Paterson, NJ | $7,346 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lunch Break | Red Bank, NJ | $5,994 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Franciscan Charities Inc | Newark, NJ | $5,697 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hunterdon Medical Center | Flemington, NJ | $5,637 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mercer Street Friends Center | Trenton, NJ | $5,521 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| By Grace Alone Frankford Crc | Philadlephia, PA | $5,269 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
31 of 59 (53%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 of 59 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $1,738,467 | $11,528 |
| 2022 | 29 | $1,832,800 | $15,708 |
| 2023 | 38 | $2,679,805 | $21,570 |
| 2024 | 38 | $2,964,161 | $20,614 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
36% of its giving went to organizations in New Jersey. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $19,085 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New Jersey.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Americas Grow-a-Row's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 37 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 150 Pittstown Road, Pittstown, NJ, 08867.
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