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Filing year 2024

MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC

Maplewood, New Jersey·EIN 27-1105051·NTEE P20 · Human Services·3
Total revenue
$2.8M
Total assets
$2.3M
Total expenses
$2.7M
Reported officers
17
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.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2024

Executive Director
$85k
$91k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 16 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Human Services

Up 4%
from 2023

From $81k in 2023 to $85k in 2024.

$81k
2023
$85k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 1% in real terms$91k to $91k

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$2.2M
$2.3M
2023
$2.8M
$2.7M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Human Services executives earn in New Jersey

Comparable human services organizations in New Jersey pay their highest-earning executive a median of $111,934.

25th percentile
$42k
Median
$111,934
75th percentile
$177k
90th percentile
$261k

These are human services sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 174 organizations across 174 filings (2021 – 2023).

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