· Public charity
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
The FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO (food bank) was incorporated on july 28, 1975.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $497,830 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $129,572,615 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $129,074,785 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $497,830 |
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 (FY23–24, $607k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +3%
- MCMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER6× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +58%
- BABAY AREA RESCUE MISSION5× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- FHFATHERS HOUSE CHURCH OF OROVILLE INCone grant, 2023 · $151k
- MAMINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION OF COLUSA COUNTY MACCone grant, 2023 · $116k · revenue 0%
- JCJORDAN CROSSING MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $76k · revenue +246%
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.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
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.
The Ford Street Project provides shelter, housing, substance abuse treatment and employment services to the homeless, addicted, and disabled in Mendocino County.
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…
Hope Solutions provides permanent affordable housing coupled with well-executed support services to people who are homeless or at risk to become homeless in Contra Costa County. Support services are individualized for each person or family…
Respecting the presence of God among us, we serve, advocate for and empower those in need. In carrying out the social mission of the Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Fresno, the Organization provides food, clothing, housing support,…
Hands of Hope works to enhance the quality of life in the Yuba-Sutter area by: Providing core support services to the homeless; Reintegrating the homeless within our community; Engaging the community to respond to the challenge of…
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
The food bank of contra costa and solano (food bank) was incorporated on july 28, 1975. the food bank was established in order to efficiently gather, warehouse, and distribute food products to contra costa county charities meeting…
City of Refuge Sacramento, a community-based organization, exists to support people living in marginalized communities of Sacramento and to empower their ability to create a personal transformation that will lead to a healthy and thriving…
Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Hl Mcleod Memorial Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
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 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION OF COLUSA COUNTY MACC ↗
- Who funds JORDAN CROSSING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF BUTTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds POOR AND THE HOMELESS TEHAMA COUNTY COALITION ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Food is Free Solano ↗
- Who funds SAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds SISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Siskiyou Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds TEAM JESUS OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER SOLANO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VACAVILLE STOREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHANGE AND NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds The University Foundation California State University Chico ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY HEALTH CONNECTED LIVING ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CONTRA COSTA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
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: White Pony Express · Solano Community Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · United Way of the Bay Area · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · Richmond Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · North Valley Community Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Alameda County Community Food Bank · Lowell Berry 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 Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano 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.