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Food Share Inc

For over 40 years food share has been feeding the hungry in ventura county.

$39M
Granted FY2021
18
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2021 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $219,090, the rows itemized in this filing. The $38,797,829 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,578,739 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.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k9 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $147k
$10,318
Median grant
1
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUBEN CASTRO CHARITIES$20,000
COMMUNITY ACTION OF VENTURA$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
02The need
02

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PROJECT UNDERSTANDING AT SAN BUENAVENTURA: $9k → 10%PRIMERA IGLESIA BAPTISTA EL RIO: $12k → 10%CHANNEL ISLANDS VINEYARD PANTRY: $7k → 10%OXNARD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $9k → 10%SIMI VALLEY SECOND MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $19k → 10%SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST THOUSAND OAKS: $10k → 10%SAFE PASSAGE YOUTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%RUBEN CASTRO CHARITIES: $20k → 10%GRACE HARVEST MINISTRIES: $15k → 10%LUCHA INC SOUTHWINDS: $17k → 10%LUCHA INC SANTA PAULA: $15k → 10%CALIFORNIA WORKS FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%CALVARY CHAPEL OF THE OJAI VALLEY INC: $8k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION OF VENTURA: $20k → 10%ST JOHN'S HEALTH MINISTRIES: $6k → 10%ADELANTE COMUNIDAD CONEJO INC SHADOWS PANTRY: $9k → 10%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 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.

1
Oxnard Homeless Prevntion
Human Services
2
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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3
People Help Exchange Inc

Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Immigrants Charitable Foundation Dba La Community Aid

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…

Human Services
5
Candela Group

The mission of the Candela Group is to bring stability and an improved quality of life to our clients and their loved ones affected by mental illness by uniting them with public and private mental health services Our lived experience as…

Health
6
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
7
South Palo Alto Food Closet

Provide food to qualifying families in Palo Alto

Food & Nutrition
8
Sai Shiva Charitable Tr
Philanthropy
9
Contra Costa Community Outreach Clinic and Laboratory

Provide free wellness health screening and laboratory services to uninsured, underserved and socioeconomically disadvantaged population within the community

Health
10
Santana & Vargas Charities Inc

Free services to low income families

Food & Nutrition
11
Shelter Care Resources

Shelter Care Resources provides basic necessities to low income, homeless and foster families. We operate a food pantry, a clothing and hygiene resource center, and help individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.Our mission…

Human Services
12
Strength for Today

Provide aid Food assistance, and crisis assistance

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action of Ventura Countyinc; 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.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUCHA INC: $31,520 · OtherLUCHA INCCOMMUNITY ACTION OF VENTURA COUNTYINC: $20,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION OF VENTURA COUNTYINCSIMI VALLEY SECOND MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $18,547 · OtherSIMI VALLEY SECOND MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHMORRPARK VINEYARD: $15,345 · OtherMORRPARK VINEYARDCALIFORNIA SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION: $12,200 · OtherCALIFORNIA SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTIONSEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST THOUSAND OAKS: $10,318 · OtherSEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST THOUSAND OAKSSAINT PAUL BAPTIST CHURCH: $9,187 · OtherSAINT PAUL BAPTIST CHURCHPROJECT UNDERSTANDING: $8,863 · OtherPROJECT UNDERSTANDINGCALVARY CHAPEL OF THE OJAI VALLEY INC: $8,000 · OtherCHANNEL ISLANDS VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $7,392 · OtherEMBRACE CHURCH: $6,815 · OtherST JOHN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $6,471 · OtherRUBEN CASTRO CHARITIES: $20,000 · Food & NutritionRUBEN CAST…SPIRIT OF SANTA PAULA: $18,738 · ReligionSPIRIT OF…Safe Passage Youth Foundation: $9,866 · Crime & LegalADELANTE COMUNIDAD CONEJO INC: $9,328 · Civil RightsCALIFORNIA WORKS FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Community Improvement
Other$154,658Food & Nutrition$20,000Religion$18,738Crime & Legal$9,866Civil Rights$9,328Community Improvement$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUCHA INC: $31,520 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF VENTURA COUNTYINC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPIRIT OF SANTA PAULA: $18,738 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSafe Passage Youth Foundation: $9,866 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetADELANTE COMUNIDAD CONEJO INC: $9,328 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPROJECT UNDERSTANDING: $8,863 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST JOHN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $6,471 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.

Food Forward IncVentura County Commun…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Food Forward IncCA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Food Forward Inc · Ventura County Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Food Share Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Food Share Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 17 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $34M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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