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Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community.

$262M
Granted FY2025still arriving
143
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$3.3MHousing & Shelter$1.5MHuman Services$1.3MFood & Nutrition$590kHealth$425kEducation$214kInternational$186kPublic Safety & Disaster$182kOther$0
02FY2025 · 143 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 143 grants below total $2,708,302, the rows itemized in this filing. The $261,605,811 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $258,897,509 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k69 grants · $179k
  • $10k–50k52 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.5M
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$208M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEL AIRE BAPTIST CHURCH$140,000
ONE GENERATION$116,706
FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE-PASADENA$116,562
LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
COMMUNITY'S CHILD$73,570
FIRST NEW CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH$72,000
BREAD OF LIFE FOURSQUARE GOSPEL CHURCH$62,503
UNION RESCUE MISSION$61,302
CARSON HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH$60,000
UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE$59,259
LONG BEACH COMMUNITY TABLE$56,003
DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE$51,500
INTERFAITH FOOD CENTER$50,348
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE$50,000
ST FRANCIS CENTER$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CELEBRATION NATION INC: $16k → 8%INGLEWOOD WRAPPING ARMS AROUND THE COMMUNITY: $16k → 14%INGLEWOOD WRAPPING ARMS AROUND THE COMMUNITY: $12k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $150k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $66k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $61k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $43k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $41k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $16k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $59k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $17k → 14%ISLAH LA: $11k → 14%SOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE: $24k → 14%SOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE: $20k → 14%SOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE: $18k → 14%SOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE: $15k → 14%SOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE: $12k → 14%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $19k → 14%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 14%SERVANTS ARMS COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION: $50k → 14%SERVANTS ARMS COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION: $13k → 14%HJ NEW DAY NEW WAY RECOVERY INC: $18k → 14%KARSH FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER: $24k → 14%INTERNATIONAL FAMILIES ASSOCIATION: $31k → 14%INTERNATIONAL FAMILIES ASSOCIATION: $13k → 14%CREATIVE MINDS ADP INC: $11k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $85k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $20k → 14%LADY BUG MINISTRY: $27k → 14%NORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES: $133k → 14%NORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES: $121k → 14%EASTMONT COMMUNITY CENTER: $149k → 14%NORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES: $30k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%EASTMONT COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 14%NORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES: $10k → 14%EASTMONT COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 14%MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY: $200k → 14%MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY: $30k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $111k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $87k → 14%ST MARGARET'S CENTER: $10k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $74k → 14%CENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS: $10k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $29k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $16k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $14k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $40k → 14%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.
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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 Los Angeles Regional Food Bank’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Los Angeles Regional 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10.0M · 310 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

310 repeat relationships: 88 still active in FY2025, 222 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

310
143

Total granted

$10.0M
$811k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+62%

Still filing today

32%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $474k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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

  • UR
    UNION RESCUE MISSION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $378k · revenue +155%
  • THE MIDNIGHT MISSION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $330k · revenue +21%
  • NV
    NORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES
    7× · 2019–2025 · $299k · revenue ×42

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    8× · 2018–2025 · $148k
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $82k
  • HT
    HOPE THE MISSIONgraduated
    4× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +162%
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
Feed Our Streets Inc

Our mission is to feed the unhoused in Los Angeles and provide support to those in need.

Food & Nutrition
2
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
3
The Miracle House Foundation

Mentorship and housing assistant for women returning from incarceration

Human Services
4
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
5
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
6
Ascencia

To lift people of out homelessness, one person, one family at a time.

Housing & Shelter
7
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
8
Oxnard Homeless Prevntion
Human Services
9
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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10
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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11
Little House

Individual drug and alcohol rehabilitation services

Health
12
Genesis Sober Living Inc

Provide residential recovery housing to those who are in recovery from drug and alcohol use and, in many cases, homeless

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Works; the most unlike its peers is Morningside Group Home. 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

330 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. 330 of the 506 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
93
Early backer (in before they grew)
307/330
Grantees still filing
215/330
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE-PASADENA: $274,364 · OtherIGLESIA PENTECOSTES EL LIRIO DE LOS VALLES INC: $233,614 · OtherBREAD OF LIFE FOURSQUARE GOSPEL CHURCH: $223,417 · Other+145 more: $5,584,757 · Other+145 moreUNION RESCUE MISSION: $377,609 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSIONTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $330,362 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSIONNORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES: $298,995 · Human ServicesNORTH VALLEY CARING SERV…MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity: $230,912 · Human ServicesMEND - Meet Each Need Wi…Eastmont Community Center: $190,417 · Human ServicesEastmont Community Cente…UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $109,931 · Human ServicesSOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE: $91,582 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $76,675 · Human Services+16 more: $547,161 · Human Services+16 moreWE HELP INC: $128,837 · Food & NutritionSHEPHERDS PANTRY: $95,694 · Food & NutritionGODS PANTRY: $67,852 · Food & NutritionLong Beach Community Table: $56,520 · Food & NutritionWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $25,898 · Food & NutritionHAWAIIAN GARDENS FOOD BANK INC: $17,523 · Food & NutritionNORTH HOLLYWOOD INTERFAITH FOOD PAN: $14,657 · Food & NutritionGrace Resource Center Inc: $249,423 · Housing & ShelterLONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION: $116,808 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITYS CHILD INC: $104,539 · HealthApla Health & Wellness: $79,317 · HealthTARZANA TREATMENT CENTERS INC: $55,206 · HealthEMERGENCY NETWORK LOS ANGELES INC: $50,000 · HealthNDICA: $22,052 · HealthTRI-STATE COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE CENTER: $17,410 · HealthCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,514 · HealthANTELOPE VALLEY PARTNERS FOR HEALTH: $183,756 · Community ImprovementHOME AT LAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $62,623 · Community ImprovementSalva: $45,462 · Community ImprovementMacedonia Community Development Corporation: $27,169 · Community ImprovementAARON COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER: $19,990 · Community ImprovementBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $168,186 · ReligionCentro de Vida International Church Movement: $22,284 · ReligionKHALSA CARE FOUNDATION: $21,100 · ReligionAV LIVING WATER WORSHIP CENTER: $19,605 · ReligionIglesia Cristiana El Shaddai USA: $18,418 · ReligionANOINTED TO MINISTER MINISTRIES: $16,613 · ReligionRose Banner Ministries: $15,650 · Religion
Other$6,316,152Human Services$2,253,644Food & Nutrition$406,981Housing & Shelter$366,231Health$344,038Community Improvement$339,000Religion$281,856

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $377,609 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $330,362 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES: $298,995 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetGrace Resource Center Inc: $249,423 over 8y, 20% of budgetMEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity: $230,912 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetEastmont Community Center: $190,417 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetANTELOPE VALLEY PARTNERS FOR HEALTH: $183,756 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $168,186 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetONEGENERATION: $151,204 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWE HELP INC: $128,837 over 7y, 91% of budgetLONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION: $116,808 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $109,931 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITYS CHILD INC: $104,539 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetA SAFE PLACE: $99,363 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetSHEPHERDS PANTRY: $95,694 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetSOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE: $91,582 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetApla Health & Wellness: $79,317 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA CLARITA VALLEY FOOD PANTRY: $78,662 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $76,675 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSERVANTS ARMS COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION: $71,014 over 8y, 23% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD CENTER: $70,958 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetGODS PANTRY: $67,852 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION: $63,372 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOME AT LAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $62,623 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSt Francis Center: $62,276 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetLong Beach Community Table: $56,520 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTARZANA TREATMENT CENTERS INC: $55,206 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Outreach Appeal dba Christian Outreach in Action: $55,129 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetPALMDALE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $54,359 over 8y, 24% of budgetCENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH-VAN NUYS A RELIGIOUS CORPORATION: $54,295 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetDESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE: $54,121 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FAMILIES ASSOCIATION: $52,969 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetEMERGENCY NETWORK LOS ANGELES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $49,901 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $48,371 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSalva: $45,462 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetFOOTHILL UNITY CENTER INC: $45,363 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CARE RESOURCES: $44,457 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKARSH FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER INC: $39,551 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $36,165 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLynwood Partners Educational Foundation: $35,785 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetWEST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $32,133 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetCENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS: $31,663 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetINGLEWOOD WRAPPING: $29,166 over 5y, 12% of budgetMacedonia Community Development Corporation: $27,169 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $25,898 over 8y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Grace Resource Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity ↗
  • Who funds Eastmont Community Center ↗
  • Who funds ANTELOPE VALLEY PARTNERS FOR HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
  • Who funds WE HELP INC ↗
  • Who funds LONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITYS CHILD INC ↗
  • Who funds A SAFE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERDS PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds SOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Apla Health & Wellness ↗
  • Who funds SANTA CLARITA VALLEY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds SERVANTS ARMS COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION ↗

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.

Shelter Partnership I…United Way IncFood Forward IncFood Finders IncThe Ahmanson Foundati…Baby2babyWeingart FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…The Rose Hills Founda…California Community …Kaiser Foundation Hos…Special Service for G…
Shelter Partnership IncCA113.5× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shelter Partnership Inc · United Way Inc · Food Forward Inc · Food Finders Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · Baby2baby · Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Special Service for Groups Inc

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 Los Angeles Regional Food Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get no government money at all
    49report 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 506 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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