Sources & data provenance

We’d rather show our work than ask for your trust. Every figure on this site is traceable here — cited to source, with a public log of any correction.

St. John’s Soup Kitchen figures

Our flagship partner is St. John’s Soup Kitchen in Newark’s Central Ward. Its impact numbers are the kitchen’s own, published on njsk.org.

40+ years feeding Newark

St. John’s Soup Kitchen states: “For over 40 years we have cared for those who have been without food or clothing.” The soup-kitchen ministry runs out of St. John’s Church (22 Mulberry St) — the church building dates to the 1820s–1850s, but the figure we publish is the kitchen’s service history, not the building’s age. Source: njsk.org/how-we-do-it.

500+ meals served daily

St. John’s Soup Kitchen states: “In 2018 St. John’s prepared and served over 500 meals everyday” (breakfast + lunch, Tuesday–Saturday). Source: njsk.org/how-we-do-it.

Megabyte Labs Mission figures

We are pre-launch. No donations have been disbursed yet — our first cycle begins once the IRS 501(c)(3) determination clears. So we publish St. John’s impact (our partner’s real, decades-long work), not mission impact, until we have audited numbers of our own. See the live ledger on /transparency.

100% pass-through · $0 salary · $0 advertising

Mission policy, self-reported and verifiable: the founder personally covers operating costs and absorbs payment-processing fees; deposits route to a dedicated account used only to write checks to the kitchen. Reconciled monthly on /transparency; the Form 990 will be mirrored here the day it is filed.

100% open-source codebase

Every public route on this site is open-source. Verify it on GitHub.

Newark food-insecurity research

The data on our Newark food-insecurity primer (28% household food-insecurity rate, ~87,000 residents below the poverty line, USDA food deserts) is drawn from public datasets — U.S. Census ACS, USDA Food Access Research Atlas, and Feeding America — with the full reference list on that page.

Correction log

We log corrections in public rather than quietly editing.

2026-06-17 — impact-number correction

Earlier stat tiles read “198 years served,” “12,000 meals/yr,” and “2,451 people served in 2025.” On review against njsk.org these were inaccurate: “198 years” conflated the church building with the kitchen ministry; “12,000/yr” understated St. John’s daily volume; and “2,451 served in 2025” described impact we have not yet delivered (we are pre-launch). All were corrected to the cited figures above.

References

St. John’s Soup Kitchen. (n.d.). How we do it. Retrieved June 17, 2026, from https://www.njsk.org/how-we-do-it
St. John’s Soup Kitchen. (n.d.). St. John’s Soup Kitchen. Retrieved June 17, 2026, from https://www.njsk.org

See the money, not just the mission

Our live ledger and Form 990 mirror live on the transparency page.

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