· Public charity
California Association of Food Banks
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 76 grants below total $5,712,735 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $22,662,293 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,949,558 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $670k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION | $935,410 |
| COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS | $448,117 |
| FRESH APPROACH | $445,614 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $331,305 |
| MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH ACCESS | $309,207 |
| PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION | $283,512 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $252,708 |
| NATIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $230,418 |
| CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER | $150,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA & SOLANO | $134,996 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CLINIC | $128,068 |
| ST MARGARET'S CENTER | $125,000 |
| SF-MARIN FOOD BANK | $108,806 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC | $101,137 |
| HELP ME HELP YOU | $93,801 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
77 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SDSAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION8× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +57% · 58% of their budget
- SHSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +128%
- MAMaternal and Child Health Access8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +10%
Funded once
- HIHARBOR INTERFAITH SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $36k · revenue +72%
- TJTHE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCOgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +47%
- FOFOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to alleviate hunger in the inland empire of southern california.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.
We provided free healthy food to low-income families and individuals in need.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The Food Bank of Northern Nevada, Inc.s (Food Banks) mission is Feeding the hungry today and solving hunger for tomorrow through community partnership. The Food Banks vision is Healthy Food. Every Person, Every Day.
The mission of Daily Bowl is to glean, produce and distribute food and providing jobs to the community.
The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.
To ensure our communities are healthy and hunger-free today, tomorrow, and always.
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
Crescent food bank cfb is a non-profit organization that is committed to ending hunger throughout southern california. our goal is to provide access to healthy food in every community by alleviating proverty through direct health and human…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Great Northern Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
92 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. 92 of the 97 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Maternal and Child Health Access ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds East Bay Agency for Children ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN ↗
- Who funds Community Bridges ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS ↗
- Who funds FRESH APPROACH ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CLINIC 'SERVING CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES' ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds Help Me Help You ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Mexican American Opportunity Foundation ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE MERCED COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Foodlink for Tulare County Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING THE FOOTHILLS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Calfoods Logistics · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · The PG&E Corporation Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · The California Endowment · Sunlight Giving · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Farmlink Project · Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Charitable Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · California Community Foundation
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 California Association of Food Banks 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.
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.