Americas Grow-a-Row
Pittstown, NJ · EIN 26-2569598. Reported 176 grants totalling $12.3M to 75 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, 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. 75 distinct organizations, with 27% 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. 73% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $19,522. Half of what it reported fell between $8,770 and $40,132; the smallest was $5,015 and the largest $1,093,571. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
176 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $12.3M 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 | $3,289,081 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| City Harvest Inc | New York, NY | $2,058,763 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Feeding Pennsylvania | Lemoyne, PA | $1,917,415 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Philabundance | Philadelphia, PA | $1,287,820 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Houston Food Bank | Houston, TX | $330,360 | 6 | 5 | 2025 |
| Flemington Area Food Pantry Inc | Flemington, NJ | $314,020 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| First Fruits Farm Inc | Freeland, MD | $226,886 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Franklin Township Food Bank | Somerset, NJ | $163,578 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Hunterdon County YMCA | Flemington, NJ | $127,979 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Meeting Essential Needs With Dignity Inc | Maplewood, NJ | $118,342 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Interfaith Food Pantry | Morris Plains, NJ | $112,012 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| New Jersey Agricultural Society | Bordentown, NJ | $99,079 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Central Texas Food Bank Inc | Austin, TX | $95,234 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Team Walker Inc | Jersey City, NJ | $89,135 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Nourishnj | Morristown, NJ | $79,812 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Delaware Valley Food Pantry Inc | Lambertville, NJ | $73,363 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Fishermans Mark | Lambertville, NJ | $65,280 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $64,764 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Food Bank of Iowa | Des Moines, IA | $64,374 | 4 | 3 | 2025 |
| Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin | Madison, WI | $64,064 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Sharing Excess | Philadelphia, PA | $62,685 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| El Pasoans Fighting Hunger | El Paso, TX | $60,480 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Table to Table Inc | Saddle Brook, NJ | $56,442 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Nourish Nj Inc | Dover, NJ | $52,445 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Foodbank of Le | Nazareth, PA | $50,849 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Food Bank of South Jersey Inc | Pennsauken, NJ | $47,555 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Esperanza Health Center Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $44,623 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc | Phillipsburg, NJ | $42,931 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Love Ministries Outreach International Inc | Rancocas, NJ | $40,132 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Zufall Health Center Inc | Dover, NJ | $35,508 | 2 | 1 | 2025 |
| United Methodist Church and Its Affiliated Organizations | Sacramento, CA | $35,218 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Mountaineer Food Bank Inc | Gassaway, WV | $33,781 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mercer Street Friends Center | Trenton, NJ | $33,688 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Care and Share Inc | Colorado Spgs, CO | $31,248 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Feeding South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $31,248 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma | Oklahoma City, OK | $31,248 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| United Food Bank | Mesa, AZ | $31,248 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Pillar Ministries Inc | Zarephath, NJ | $31,093 | 4 | 3 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Washington Assembly of God | Washington, NJ | $26,197 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Hnc of Bucks County | Doylestown, PA | $25,767 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hunterdon Medical Center | Flemington, NJ | $23,894 | 3 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Salvation Army | West Nyack, NY | $22,589 | 4 | 3 | 2025 |
| Open Cupboard Food Pantry Inc | Clinton, NJ | $22,289 | 4 | 3 | 2025 |
| Walter Hoving Home Inc | Oxford, NJ | $21,688 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Interfaith Neighbors Inc | Asbury Park, NJ | $20,725 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Americas Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $20,570 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Sheperd Food Bank | Auburn, ME | $18,144 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Long Valley Community Assistance Program Inc | Long Valley, NJ | $16,574 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Camden County School District | Camden, NJ | $15,889 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Urban Agriculture Cooperative | Newark, NJ | $14,986 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vermont Foodbank | Barre, VT | $12,854 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Catholic Charities | Portland, OR | $12,511 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Metropolitan YMCA of the Oranges Inc | Livingston, NJ | $12,384 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Franciscan Charities Inc | Newark, NJ | $11,208 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Lowcountry Food Bank Inc | Charleston, SC | $11,172 | 1 | 1 | 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 |
| Feeding Hands Inc | Hillsborough, NJ | $6,847 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Rolling Harvest Food Rescue | New Hope, PA | $6,468 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lunch Break | Red Bank, NJ | $5,994 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| By Grace Alone Frankford Crc | Philadlephia, PA | $5,269 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
36 of 75 (48%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 49 of 75 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
| 2025 | 49 | $3,105,375 | $20,725 |
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
41% 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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $19,522 -- 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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 34 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 15 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.
EIN 26-2569598 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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