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Alameda County Community Food Bank

ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK passionately pursues a hunger-free community.

$99M
Granted FY2025still arriving
124
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 124 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 124 grants below total $1,090,759 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $99,464,835 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $98,374,076 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k88 grants · $433k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $558k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$6,835
Median grant
1
States reached
$95M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BERKELEY FOOD NETWORK$50,000
OPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE$50,000
SOUTH HAYWARD PARISH$29,641
ALAMEDA FOOD BANK$26,238
OAKLAND INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
OAKLAND CATHOLIC WORKER$23,227
UC BERKELEY$22,212
HOPE 4 THE HEART$21,761
CITY TEAM MINISTRIES - OAKLAND$21,320
HIV EDUCATION AND PREVENTION PROJECT$20,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE - OAKLAND$18,489
EAST OAKLAND COLLECTIVE$17,820
SAN LORENZO FAMILY HELP CENTER$17,801
BERKELEY FOOD PANTRY$17,487
TRYBE$17,441
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ALAMEDA POINT COLLABORATIVE: $12k → 10%TRYBE: $17k → 10%MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 10%SUPPORT LIFE FOUNDATION - OAKLAND: $13k → 10%THE PEACE HAVEN FREEDOM STORE: $12k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL - ST ANNE CHURCH: $3k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL - ST COLUMBA: $3k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL - MISSION SAN JOSE FREMONT: $3k → 10%INSIGHT HOUSING - BFHP - BERKELEY WAY: $2k → 10%OAKLAND CATHOLIC WORKER: $23k → 10%MERCY BROWN BAG PROGRAM: $9k → 10%FACES OF THE EAST BAY: $5k → 10%ARSOLA'S HOUSE: $10k → 10%4C'S OF ALAMEDA COUNTY - OAKLAND: $3k → 10%BERKELEY YOUTH ALTERNATIVES: $11k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
2
Impact Oakland Now
Community Improvement
3
Bayanihan Equity Center

The Bayanihan Equity Center provides culturally responsive services to address the needs and advance the rights of marginalized communities in pursuit of equity and justice.

Public Benefit
4
Curry Senior Center

To provide services to seniors that promote independent living while maintaining their dignity and self-esteem.

Human Services
5
Alameda County Homeless Action Center

HAC assists homeless and mentally ill clients in the long and difficult process of becoming eligible for SSI and MediCal benefits. HAC provides assistance with other public benefits that clients need in the interim to survive until their…

Housing & Shelter
6
The East Oakland Collective

The East Oakland Collective supports residents of East Oakland, prioritizing Black residents, to navigate challenges and barriers to inequities through resource distribution and advocacy. We work towards racial and economic justice and…

Community Improvement
7
Latino Commission On Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services

The Latino Commission provides a multitude of services throughout the counties of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Tulare. The Organization currently employs twelve programs eight for adults, and four for youth and transitional age youth…

Health
8
Primary Care at Home Inc

We provide healthcare and health management services in the Oakland, California Bay Area. We seek to recognize, empathize, and correctly respond to clients individual needs both medically and psychosocially. Everyone in our care is treated…

Health
9
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
10
Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services
11
East Bay Agency for Children

For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health
12
Asian Health Services

Asian Health Services (AHS) provides a continuum of medical care, mental health care, dental care and other healthcare services for all, including health education; perinatal services; behavioral health; family and youth services;…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spanish Speaking Unity Council of Alameda County Inc and the most unlike its peers is House of Prayer Ignited. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%4%<5yr16%9%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr12%28%35–55yr11%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%5%<5yr16%23%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr12%17%35–55yr11%16%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%8/346
the rest of the field
14%
1,358/9,910

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

158 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
147/158
Grantees still filing
104/158
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $45,890 · OtherOAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT144000 ELECT FOUNDATION — $32,103 · OtherSOUTH HAYWARD PARISH — $29,641 · OtherEPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CALIFORNIA — $22,096 · Other+66 more — $487,537 · Other+66 moreOPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN HEART KITCHEN …Berkeley Food Network — $50,000 · Food & NutritionBerkeley Food Netwo…Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank — $26,238 · Food & NutritionAlameda Emergency F…HOPE 4 THE HEART — $21,761 · Food & NutritionHOPE 4 THE HEARTSan Lorenzo Family Help Center aka The San Lorenzo Food Pantry — $17,801 · Food & NutritionSan Lorenzo Family …Community Kitchens Inc — $13,988 · Food & NutritionCommunity Kitchens …+2 more — $8,738 · Food & NutritionOAKLAND CATHOLIC WORKER — $23,227 · Human ServicesOAKLAND CATHO…TRYBE INC — $17,441 · Human ServicesTRYBE INCSUPPORT LIFE FOUNDATION — $13,000 · Human ServicesSUPPORT LIFE …ALAMEDA POINT COLLABORATIVE — $12,196 · Human ServicesALAMEDA POINT…Peace Haven Corporation — $12,075 · Human ServicesPeace Haven C…BERKELEY YOUTH ALTERNATIVES — $11,022 · Human ServicesBERKELEY YOUT…Arsolas Distribution Center and Community Services — $9,916 · Human ServicesArsolas Distr…SOCIETY OF STVINCENT DE PAUL District Council of Alameda County — $9,134 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST…MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER — $8,608 · Human ServicesMERCY RETIREM…MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE — $5,425 · Human ServicesFACES OF THE EAST BAY — $4,620 · Human Services+2 more — $4,352 · Human ServicesHIV Education & Prevention Project Of Alameda County — $20,000 · HealthLA CLINICA DE LA RAZA INC — $9,390 · HealthStreet Level Health Project — $6,020 · HealthCommunity Health For Asian American — $5,000 · HealthBRIGHTER BEGINNINGS — $4,283 · HealthMAGNOLIA WOMENS RECOVERY PROGRAMS INC — $3,251 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $22,583 · EducationEDUCATION FOR CHANGE — $14,438 · EducationCOMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION — $4,632 · EducationARISE HIGH SCHOOL — $2,630 · Education+1 more — $1,285 · EducationCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $21,320 · ReligionJOURNEY CHURCH EAST BAY — $12,803 · ReligionSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC — $14,416 · Community ImprovementHarbor House Ministries Inc — $10,651 · Community ImprovementProject Access Inc — $1,248 · Community Improvement
Other$617,267Food & Nutrition$188,526Human Services$131,016Health$47,944Education$45,568Religion$34,123Community Improvement$26,315

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC — $50,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetBerkeley Food Network — $50,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank — $26,238 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $22,583 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $21,320 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHIV Education & Prevention Project Of Alameda County — $20,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $18,489 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST OAKLAND COMMUNITY PROJECT — $17,820 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION FOR CHANGE — $14,438 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC — $14,416 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY — $12,960 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetJOURNEY CHURCH EAST BAY — $12,803 over 2y, 11% of budgetALAMEDA POINT COLLABORATIVE — $12,196 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPeace Haven Corporation — $12,075 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetBERKELEY YOUTH ALTERNATIVES — $11,022 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLA CLINICA DE LA RAZA INC — $9,390 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF STVINCENT DE PAUL District Council of Alameda County — $9,134 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER — $8,608 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Alliance for Community Wellness DBA La Familia Counseling Services — $7,788 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE — $5,425 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Health For Asian American — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Action Alliance — $4,710 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION — $4,632 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFACES OF THE EAST BAY — $4,620 over 9y, 80% of budgetEAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT — $4,535 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF PERALTA HACIENDA HISTORICAL PARK — $4,432 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBRIGHTER BEGINNINGS — $4,283 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCANDID — $4,282 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIVICORPS — $4,240 over 9y, 0.0% of budget5SIKHSEVA — $4,203 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH — $3,555 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetViola Blythe Community Service Center of Newark — $3,495 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetMAGNOLIA WOMENS RECOVERY PROGRAMS INC — $3,251 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY — $3,182 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Child Care Coordinating Council of Alameda County — $2,632 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARISE HIGH SCHOOL — $2,630 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENTS DAY HOME — $2,573 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN CHURCH HOMES — $2,453 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTri-Valley Haven For Women — $2,260 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project — $1,720 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDestiny Arts Center — $1,256 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetProject Access Inc — $1,248 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PASSAGES — $788 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON VISION — $665 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds OPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds Berkeley Food Network ↗
  • Who funds Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds OAKLAND CATHOLIC WORKER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE 4 THE HEART ↗
  • Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds HIV Education & Prevention Project Of Alameda County ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST OAKLAND COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds San Lorenzo Family Help Center aka The San Lorenzo Food Pantry ↗
  • Who funds TRYBE INC ↗
  • Who funds One Nation Dream Makers ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION FOR CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds SPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Kitchens Inc ↗
  • Who funds SUPPORT LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY ↗
  • Who funds JOURNEY CHURCH EAST BAY ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA POINT COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Peace Haven Corporation ↗
  • Who funds BERKELEY YOUTH ALTERNATIVES ↗
  • Who funds Harbor House Ministries Inc ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

East Bay Community Fo…Sunlight GivingThe San Francisco Fou…United Way of the Bay…Fremont Bank Foundati…Sutter Bay HospitalsKaiser Foundation Hos…Evelyn and Walter Haa…Community InitiativesEast Bay Foundation o…The California Wellne…San Jose Mercury News…
East Bay Community FoundationCA71× affinity77 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The San Francisco Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Fremont Bank Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · Community Initiatives · East Bay Foundation on Aging · The California Wellness Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Alameda County Community Food Bank funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 107 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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