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MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITY INC

EIN 27-1105051 MAPLEWOOD, NJ

Revenue 2024
$2,808,822
Expenses 2024
$2,677,531

Program services were 83.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1304

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITY (MEND) is a hunger relief network in Essex County, NJ, that works to advance health equity and influence systems-level change through collaborative, community-driven, responsive programming. Its mission is to strengthen community health by increasing access to fresh and healthy food. MEND envisions a community in which everyone has access to nutritious food and the ability to achieve their optimal health. MEND values Community, Diversity, Collaboration,and Dignity.

  • PANTRY PARTNERSHIPS: MEND REGULARLY CONVENES LEADERS FROM OVER 20 ESSEX COUNTY-BASED FOOD PANTRIES, AND PROVIDES SUPPORT VIA ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE SHARING, SUPPLEMENTAL FRESH AND HEALTHY FOOD, AND VOLUNTEERS.

    Expenses $1,117,606

  • MEND ON THE MOVE: MEND REDUCES BARRIERS TO ACCESSING NUTRITIOUS FOOD IN FOOD DESERT COMMUNITIES BY BRINGING FRESH AND HEALTHY FOOD DIRECTLY AND CONSISTENTLY TO THOSE WHO NEED IT MOST, PRIMARILY THROUGH HOME DELIVERIES AND MOBILE MARKETS.

    Expenses $1,008,364

  • Food & Health Equity Coalition. The Food & Health Equity Coalition of Essex County, NJ (FHEC) is a collaboration of 90+ organizations recognizing food insecurity as a key social determinant of health and working together across sectors and with communities to advance health equity and achieve collective impact. Officially launched in February 2024, MEND is the backbone organization for this collaborative.

    Expenses $120,293

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • ROBIN PEACOCK

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $84,502
    From this org
    $84,502
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • A JABBAR ABDI

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • KAREN HARTSHORN HILTON

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KATHERINE S CAHILL

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12

  • DARLYN BLANEY

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHESNEY BLUE

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRIS COSTANZO

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MAGALY DENIS-ROMAN

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DYANNA MOON

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BENJAMIN EYLER

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SISTER LINDA KLAISS

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARGARET SANTANA

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RICK WESSLER

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CLAIRE SINCLAIR

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CHIGOZIE ONYEMA

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SAMIR SHAH

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUNITA SUBRAMANIAN

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,808,822
    Expenses
    $2,677,531
    Contributions
    $2,777,410
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,216,543
    Expenses
    $2,320,683
    Contributions
    $2,203,251
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,337,359
    Expenses
    $2,085,115
    Contributions
    $2,337,359
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,516,273
    Expenses
    $1,108,590
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,678,884

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,640,833
    Expenses
    $764,997
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,163,593

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $407,202
    Expenses
    $282,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $254,090

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $240,446
    Expenses
    $169,799
    Assets (EOY)
    $123,904

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $193,307
    Expenses
    $198,316
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,257

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Jamie Anthony
Mailing address
37 Evergreen PlaceEast Orange NJ 07018
Website
www.mendnj.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.