· Public charity
Food Share Inc
For over 40 years food share has been feeding the hungry in ventura county.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $219,090 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $38,797,829 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,578,739 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k9 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $147k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ACTION OF VENTURA | $20,000 |
| RUBEN CASTRO CHARITIES | $20,000 |
| SPIRIT OF SANTA PAULA | $18,738 |
| SIMI VALLEY SECOND MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $18,547 |
| LUCHA INC SOUTHWINDS | $16,520 |
| GRACE HARVEST MINISTRIES | $15,345 |
| LUCHA INC SANTA PAULA | $15,000 |
| PRIMERA IGLESIA BAPTISTA EL RIO | $12,200 |
| SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST THOUSAND OAKS | $10,318 |
| SAFE PASSAGE YOUTH FOUNDATION | $9,866 |
| ADELANTE COMUNIDAD CONEJO INC SHADOWS PANTRY | $9,328 |
| OXNARD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $9,187 |
| PROJECT UNDERSTANDING AT SAN BUENAVENTURA | $8,863 |
| CALVARY CHAPEL OF THE OJAI VALLEY INC | $8,000 |
| CHANNEL ISLANDS VINEYARD PANTRY | $7,392 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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.
Provide free wellness health screening and laboratory services to uninsured, underserved and socioeconomically disadvantaged population within the community
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LA Community Aid (LACA) empowers socially and economically oppressed members of greater Los Angeles by equipping them with tools to overcome job insecurity, food insecurity, and houselessness. In doing so, we enable our community not…
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…
Provide food and support to El Segundo residents in need
Free services to low income families
Our mission is to provide nutritional meal and food support, food equity programming to local communities and provide infant needs to eradicate infant mortality and abuse rates in LA County and City.
Provide food to qualifying families in Palo Alto
Provide food and shelter for the poor
City food pantry
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spirit of Santa Paula and the most unlike its peers is Project Understanding. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 LUCHA INC ↗
- Who funds RUBEN CASTRO CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF VENTURA COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF SANTA PAULA ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage Youth Foundation ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE COMUNIDAD CONEJO INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT UNDERSTANDING ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Food Forward Inc · Ventura County Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Share Inc 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.