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Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank

The JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK is the largest hunger-relief organization in san diego county.

$308k
Granted FY2023
41
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Religion$854kHuman Services$696kFood & Nutrition$426kHousing & Shelter$144kEducation$121kHealth$102kEmployment$73kYouth Development$36kOther$0
02FY2023 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 41 grants below total $246,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $308,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $62,000 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.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$124M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAAC COMMUNITY CENTER$6,000
THINK DIGNITY$6,000
FAITH CHAPEL$6,000
RAW RUTH ANOINTED WORLD MINISTRIES$6,000
SHERMAN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER$6,000
LA MESA ADVENTIST COMMUNITY CHURCH$6,000
MERIDIAN SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH$6,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CONNECTION$6,000
FALLBROOK SPANISH SDA$6,000
CHOLLAS VIEW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$6,000
WARNER SPRINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCES BOARD$6,000
LIVED EXPERIENCES$6,000
SHELTER VALLEY CITIZENS CORPORATION$6,000
EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER$6,000
EL CAJON SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH$6,000
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 (FY20–23, $467k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELPING HAND WORLDWIDE: $6k → 10%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS (PATH): $11k → 14%RAMONA FOOD AND CLOTHES CLOSET: $15k → 11%COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SERVICE AGENCY: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $11k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $6k → 11%SHERMAN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 11%HEARTS & HANDS WORKING TOGETHER: $45k → 11%SHERMAN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER CORP: $5k → 11%HEARTS & HANDS WORKING TOGETHER: $6k → 11%BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $11k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $6k → 11%METROPOLITIAN AREA ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ANTI-POVERTY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $6k → 11%MAAC COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 11%CHRISTIAN CREDIT COUNSELORS INC: $6k → 11%FRIENDSHIPS FOR HOPE INC: $11k → 11%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 11%OPERATION PROMISE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20k → 11%SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $16k → 11%SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL: $15k → 11%OPERATION PROMISE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $6k → 11%SAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 11%IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KIDS FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES INC: $5k → 11%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $20k → 11%PROJECT 11: $20k → 11%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO: $11k → 11%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OUR LADY MOUNT CARMEL: $10k → 11%PROJECT 11: $6k → 11%RAW RUTH ANOINTED WORLD MINISTRIES: $6k → 11%PROJECT 11: $5k → 11%RAW RUTH ANOINTED WORLD MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%CHRISTIE'S PLACE INC: $6k → 11%SOMALI BANTU ASSOCIATION: $35k → 11%IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KIDS FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%SOMALI BANTU ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Banklessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 47 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
100

Total granted

$1.5M
$924k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+25%

Still filing today

57%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationReligionHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • HW
    HEAVEN'S WINDOWS
    3× · 2020–2023 · $61k · revenue +39%
  • SV
    St Vincent de Paul Diocesan Council of San Diego
    2× · 2020–2021 · $56k · revenue +107%
  • HA
    HEARTS AND HANDS WORKING TOGETHER
    2× · 2021–2023 · $51k · revenue +48% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • SD
    Special Delivery San Diego
    one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue -27%
  • ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +13%
  • OP
    OPERATION PROMISE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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.

1
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
We See You Inc

We see you has a mission to see lives transformed among the homeless and addicted in san diego by offering sustainable pathways off of the streets.

Food & Nutrition
4
Bread of Life Rescue Mission

To provide meals and shelter to the working poor and homeless in North San Diego County.

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5
San Diego Community Housing Corporation

To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.

Housing & Shelter
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
Housing Help of San Diego

The specific purpose of Housing Help of San Diego (HHOSD) is to provide supportive services and tailored solutions with a goal of obtaining and maintaining affordable housing.

Housing & Shelter
8
Open Arms Food Pantry & Resource Center

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Kind Hearts San Diego

Kind Hearts San Diego is a community-based social services organization that provides essential goods and services to newly arrived refugees and immigrants resettled in San Diego County. Their mission is to ease newcomers into the process…

Human Services
10
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
11
Christian Outreach Appeal dba Christian Outreach in Action

Christian Outreach in Action (COA) is a non-denominational non-profit organization whose mission is to transform the lives of homeless and impoverished individuals in Long Beach and surrounding areas so they may reach and sustain…

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12
Dreams for Change Inc

Dreams for Change's mission is to respond to the needs of San Diegans by creating innovative and cost-effective programs to empower and stabilize the lives of under-served families and individuals.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brother Benno Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is North County Sober Living. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

92 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. 92 of the 162 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
66/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $70,000 · OtherMINISTERIO TIEMPO NUEVO SAN DIEGO: $55,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO CHRISTIAN CENTER INTERNATIONAL INC: $51,000 · Other+99 more: $1,215,500 · Other+99 moreSt Vincent de Paul Diocesan Council of San Diego: $56,000 · Human ServicesSt Vincent de Paul Di…HEARTS AND HANDS WORKING TOGETHER: $51,000 · Human ServicesHEARTS AND HANDS WORK…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $45,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE…Somali Bantu Association of America: $45,000 · Human ServicesSomali Bantu Associat…PROJECT 11: $31,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 11OPERATION PROMISE COMMUNITY SERVICE: $26,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION PROMISE COM…COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $21,000 · Human ServicesITS ALL ABOUT THE KIDS FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Human ServicesSBCS CORPORATION: $16,000 · Human Services+19 more: $165,000 · Human Services+19 moreHEAVEN'S WINDOWS: $61,000 · Food & NutritionHEAVEN'S W…Uptown Faith Community Service: $51,000 · Food & NutritionUptown Fai…BROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionBROTHER BE…The Community Food Connection: $36,000 · Food & NutritionThe Commun…MAMA'S KITCHEN: $11,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 more: $27,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 moreFALLBROOK FOOD PANTRY: $45,000 · ReligionST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $45,000 · ReligionSANTEE FOOD BANK: $45,000 · ReligionFOUNDATION MATTHEW 633 INC: $17,000 · ReligionAMERICAN RELIEF ORGANIZATION: $11,000 · ReligionURBAN STREET ANGELS INC: $8,000 · Religion+1 more: $3,000 · ReligionSpecial Delivery San Diego: $45,000 · EducationSTEPPING HIGHER INC: $45,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR A BETTER SAN DIEGO: $15,000 · EducationThink Dignity: $11,000 · EducationASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS: $11,000 · EducationJULIAN PATHWAYS INC: $5,000 · EducationGENTE UNIDA: $5,000 · EducationPAVING GREAT FUTURES: $45,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $11,000 · EmploymentWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC: $11,000 · EmploymentLA MAESTRA FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Community ImprovementTHRIVE LEMON GROVE: $5,000 · Community ImprovementOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementI Am My Brothers Keeper Cdc: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,391,500Human Services$473,000Food & Nutrition$231,000Religion$174,000Education$137,000Employment$67,000Community Improvement$65,000

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 budgetHEAVEN'S WINDOWS: $61,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetSt Vincent de Paul Diocesan Council of San Diego: $56,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetHEARTS AND HANDS WORKING TOGETHER: $51,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetUptown Faith Community Service: $51,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetSpecial Delivery San Diego: $45,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSTEPPING HIGHER INC: $45,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFALLBROOK FOOD PANTRY: $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAVING GREAT FUTURES: $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSomali Bantu Association of America: $45,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetLA MAESTRA FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTEE FOOD BANK: $45,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetBROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Community Food Connection: $36,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetPROJECT 11: $31,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetOPERATION PROMISE COMMUNITY SERVICE: $26,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $21,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuckheart Ministries Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetITS ALL ABOUT THE KIDS FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION MATTHEW 633 INC: $17,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetWARNER SPRINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCE BOARD: $16,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetSBCS CORPORATION: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SERVICE AGENCY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR A BETTER SAN DIEGO: $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetRAMONA FOOD & CLOTHES CLOSET: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMetropolitan Area Advisory Committee on Anti-Poverty of San Diego County Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKELAND HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT CORP: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OCEANSIDE INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThink Dignity: $11,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPATH: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAW RUTH ANOINTED WORLD MINISTRIES: $11,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS: $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $11,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RELIEF ORGANIZATION: $11,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The San Diego Foundat…Price Philanthropies …Feeding San DiegoJewish Community Foun…The Cushman FoundationThe Parker FoundationThe Conrad Prebys Fou…David C Copley Founda…Alliance Healthcare F…Lucky Duck FoundationSempra FoundationThe Nordson Corporati…
The San Diego FoundationCA71.7× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Feeding San Diego · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Cushman Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Lucky Duck Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Nordson Corporation 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 Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 162 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $86M 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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