How much does Food for Families give?

Food for Families reported 12 grants totaling $6,406,283 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 75 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.

What does Food for Families fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (91%), Human Services (7%), Religion (1%).

Who are Food for Families's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services ($3.1M), Second Harvest of Silicon Valley ($1.9M), Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ($1.7M).

Does Food for Families fund new organizations?

In FY2021, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Food for Families?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Albertsons Companies Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, California Association of Food Banks.

Where is Food for Families based?

Food for Families is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Food for Families

The purpose of FOOD FOR FAMILIES is to alleviate hunger in the communities we serve. FOOD FOR FAMILIES supports 10 feeding america food bank leaders, which in turn provide food to more than 1,900 partner distribution agencies throughout california and nevada, equating to millions of people being fed. FOOD FOR FAMILIES is sponsored by our…

$6.4M
Granted FY2021: 12
Grants FY2021: 12
Organizations funded FY2021: 8%
First-time grantees FY2021

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Median grant, FY2021: $530,516
Largest grant, FY2021: $1,285,619
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 75; FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021: 2
Total assets, FY2021: $4.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 8% of the organizations Food for Families funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $760k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2021	12	$6.4M	8%
FY2020	12	$5.7M	0%
FY2019	12	$3.0M	17%
FY2018	75	$1.4M	13%
FY2017	71	$1.7M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Food & Nutrition$17MHuman Services$1.2MReligion$153kPhilanthropy$112kCommunity Improvement$74kHousing & Shelter$28kYouth Development$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services	$3,140,424	8	2%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley	$1,886,981	8	0%
Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc	$1,728,584	8	1%
Feeding the Foothills	$1,533,107	8	4%
Alameda County Community Food Bank	$887,190	8	0%
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County	$877,179	7	1%
Redwood Empire Food Bank	$802,909	8	1%
Second Harvest of the Greater Valley	$760,059	4	2%
Yolo Food Bank	$446,381	7	2%
Food Bank for Monterey County	$240,628	9	1%

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All grantees of Food for Families by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services	$3,140,424	8	2%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley	$1,886,981	8	0%
Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc	$1,728,584	8	1%
Feeding the Foothills	$1,533,107	8	4%
Alameda County Community Food Bank	$887,190	8	0%
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County	$877,179	7	1%
Redwood Empire Food Bank	$802,909	8	1%
Second Harvest of the Greater Valley	$760,059	4	2%
Yolo Food Bank	$446,381	7	2%
Food Bank for Monterey County	$240,628	9	1%
Central California Food Bank	$172,381	7	0%
Interfaith Food Ministry Nevada County	$103,570	2	4%
The Salvation Army	$59,970	2	n/a
Community Services Agency of Mountain View Los Altos and Los Altos Hills Inc	$59,770	2	1%
Childrens Emergency Food Bank	$53,510	2	n/a
Benicia Community Action Council	$43,964	2	6%
South County Services Inc	$43,463	2	11%
River City Food Bank	$42,129	2	1%
Food Bank of El Dorado County	$42,031	2	1%
SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER	$36,375	2	0%
Shores of Hope	$30,593	2	1%
Carson Valley Community Food Closet Inc	$29,388	2	1%
Vaca Fish Inc	$28,298	2	n/a
Committee on the Shelterless	$27,909	2	0%
Windsor Service Alliance	$26,233	2	27%
Interfaith Council of Amador	$26,183	2	3%
Woodland Volunteer Bureau Food Closet	$25,158	2	n/a
Vine Life Ministries Inc	$23,038	1	3%

Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.0M), not named here.

Food for Families supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

The Albertsons Companies FoundationCA24.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Association of Food Banks · The PG&E Corporation Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Calfoods Logistics · Sutter Health · Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services · Feeding America · United Way California Capital Region · Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

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.

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About Food for Families

How much does Food for Families give?: Food for Families reported 12 grants totaling $6,406,283 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 75 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Food for Families fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (91%), Human Services (7%), Religion (1%).
Who are Food for Families's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services ($3.1M), Second Harvest of Silicon Valley ($1.9M), Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ($1.7M).
Does Food for Families fund new organizations?: In FY2021, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Food for Families?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Albertsons Companies Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, California Association of Food Banks.
Where is Food for Families based?: Food for Families is based in CA.