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Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue.

$67M
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$300kReligion$289kHuman Services$157kHealth$107kEducation$102kHousing & Shelter$82kCivil Rights$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $45,572, the rows itemized in this filing. The $67,155,310 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $67,109,738 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$45,572
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC$45,572
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SD: $32k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SD: $26k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO: $18k → 11%Jewish Family Services of SD: $13k → 11%SHERMAN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER CORP: $17k → 11%PROJECT 11: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 10 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
36

Total granted

$1.0M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+4%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesReligionHealthCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SH
    STEPPING HIGHER INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $127k · revenue +56% · 48% of their budget
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO
    4× · 2018–2021 · $89k · revenue +368%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $82k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • LC
    LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTER INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES OF SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2022 · $173k
  • TP
    Tricity Pantry
    one grant, 2022 · $109k · 66% of their budget
  • IA
    I Am My Brothers Keeper Cdc
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -27% · 82% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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New Door Opportunities

Feeding the homeless population in san d

Food & Nutrition
2
Urban Angels Co Scott Lutwak

Urban angels is designed to nourish and provide food for the homeless and hungry of san dieo, ca. urban angels provides feeding services every wednesday in collboration with the salvation army and is the primary food provider for residents…

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3
Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego

Catholic Charities provides social services and administers various governmental and social programs. Designed to meet the challenge of the ever-changing community by utilizing spiritual, human and financial resources, our programs enable…

Human Services
4
Basket Brigade of San Diego

Focused on bringing holiday meals full of hope to families in need in the san diego area.

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5
Foodbank of Southern California

Distribute food to nonprofit agencies

Food & Nutrition
6
The 29 Palms Community Food Pantry

Emergency food and shelter program servicing approx 5,500 people in the 29 Palms area. Hours of operation are: mom-fri 9:30 to 11:30, 2nd and 4th Wed of each month 17:00 to 18:30, and 1st Sat each month 9:30 to 18:30.

Food & Nutrition
7
San Diego Catholic Worker Inc

To assist the needy in San Diego CA

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8
North County Community Food Bank

Emergency food services provided to families in need.

Food & Nutrition
9
Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County

Procurement and distribution of food to agencies serving the needy.

Food & Nutrition
10
Hunger 2 Help Inc

To provide assistance and aid to the homeless in downtown san diego

Human Services
11
St Francis Center

For the performance of charitable acts and service to the less fortunate.

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12
Care for the Children

Our mission is to provide homebound older adults with low income with nutritious food box delivery. Additionally, our food distribution program provides food to all in the communities we serve who need a helping hand. Our programs aim to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brother Benno Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Third Avenue Charitable Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK: $399,000 · OtherIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANKLIFE CHRISTIAN CENTER INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES OF SAN DIEGO: $173,480 · OtherLIFE CHRISTIAN CENTER INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES OF SAN DIEGORONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC: $76,629 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INCBETHESDA RECOVERY CENTER: $52,988 · OtherFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $41,500 · OtherMCALISTER INSTITUTE FOR TREATMENT & EDUCATION INC: $54,327 · OtherVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $47,366 · Other+22 more: $335,551 · Other+22 moreTricity Pantry: $109,417 · Food & NutritionTricity PantryThe Community Food Connection: $94,261 · Food & NutritionThe Community Food C…EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP: $64,963 · Food & NutritionEQUATION COLLABORATI…Third Avenue Charitable Organization: $59,041 · Food & NutritionThird Avenue Charita…BROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC: $45,572 · Food & NutritionBROTHER BENNO FOUNDA…HEAVEN'S WINDOWS: $38,000 · Food & NutritionHEAVEN'S WINDOWSSTEPPING HIGHER INC: $127,291 · EducationSTEPPING HI…NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC: $89,000 · EducationNATIVITY PR…+2 more: $12,500 · Education+2 moreTERI Inc: $66,981 · ReligionFALLBROOK FOOD PANTRY: $35,000 · ReligionSANTEE FOOD BANK: $26,118 · ReligionJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $89,350 · Human ServicesSherman Heights Community Center Corporation: $16,665 · Human ServicesPROJECT 11: $9,960 · Human ServicesI Am My Brothers Keeper Cdc: $100,000 · Community ImprovementSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $81,862 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,180,841Food & Nutrition$411,254Education$228,791Religion$128,099Human Services$115,975Community Improvement$100,000Housing & Shelter$81,862

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK: $399,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSTEPPING HIGHER INC: $127,291 over 4y, 48% of budgetTricity Pantry: $109,417 over 1y, 66% of budgetI Am My Brothers Keeper Cdc: $100,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetThe Community Food Connection: $94,261 over 1y, 72% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $89,350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC: $89,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $81,862 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC: $76,629 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTERI Inc: $66,981 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP: $64,963 over 1y, 11% of budgetThird Avenue Charitable Organization: $59,041 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetMCALISTER INSTITUTE FOR TREATMENT & EDUCATION INC: $54,327 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBETHESDA RECOVERY CENTER: $52,988 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $47,366 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC: $45,572 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEAVEN'S WINDOWS: $38,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLIVED EXPERIENCES INC: $37,164 over 1y, 19% of budgetFALLBROOK FOOD PANTRY: $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSANTEE FOOD BANK: $26,118 over 1y, 33% of budgetNorth County LGBTQ Resource Center: $25,800 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSherman Heights Community Center Corporation: $16,665 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWESLEY HOUSE STUDENT RESIDENCE INC: $11,121 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT 11: $9,960 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSpecial Delivery San Diego: $6,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jacobs & Cushman San …The San Diego Foundat…David C Copley Founda…Sempra FoundationPrice Philanthropies …Alliance Healthcare F…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Jewish Community Foun…Walter J & Betty C Za…The Parker FoundationThe Cushman FoundationThe Albertsons Compan…
Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food BankCA47× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank · The San Diego Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Feeding San Diego funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Feeding San Diego. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Feeding San Diego?

    Find your warmest path to Feeding San Diego through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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