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Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc

In collaboration with our partners, we provide dignified, equitable and consistent access to nutritious food, creating a foundation for community health.

$397k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$56k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$366kHuman Services$276kHousing & Shelter$60kEducation$50kHealth$50kReligion$48kYouth Development$30kInternational$7k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $258,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $397,345 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $138,845 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PATHWAYS OF HOPE$56,000
DWELLING PLACE ANAHEIM$50,000
LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY$32,500
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC$24,960
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY$19,760
FAMILIES FORWARD$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GG$15,000
LATINO HEALTH ACCESS$15,000
HELPING OTHERS PREPARE FOR ETERNITY$9,600
HUNGER FREE AMERICA$7,000
VITAL ACCESS CARE FOUNDATION$6,880
ANAHEIM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - NEIGHBORS PANTRY$6,800
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 (FY21–25, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LATINO HEALTH ACCESS: $15k → 10%LATINO HEALTH ACCESS: $10k → 10%HELPING OTHERS PREPARE FOR ETERNITY: $10k → 10%HELPING OTHERS PREPARE FOR ETERNITY: $10k → 10%GRACE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL SERVICES: $35k → 10%DELHI CENTER: $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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$612k · 11 repeat orgs$274k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$612k
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-5%

Still filing today

64%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationReligionOther
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

  • PO
    PATHWAYS OF HOPE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $140k · revenue +493%
  • LF
    LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $126k · revenue +28%
  • AS
    ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FULLERTON
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • GS
    GRACE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -6%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO SOLANO FOOD PANTRY
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • GH
    GRATEFUL HEARTS STOREHOUSE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue 0%
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
Serve the People Inc

Serve the people serves the healthcare and basic needs of the underserved population in santa ana.

Human Services
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
Laguna Beach Community Clinic

The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
4
Hurtt Family Health Clinic Inc

Hurtt Family Health Clinic provides highly accessible, preventative, primary and specialized healthcare to homeless and underserved families through a full service medical, dental, vision, mental health, chiropractic, optometry and health…

Health
5
Grandma's House of Hope

Grandma's house of hope empowers the invisible populations of orange county by providing emergency, bridge and transitional housing with trauma-informed supportive services to single individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
6
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
7
Orange Free Clinic Inc

Orange county free clinics mission is to provide primary medical care to citizens of orange county who do not have resources to obtain these basic health care needs.

Health
8
Catholic Charities of Orange County Inc

The mission of catholic charities of orange county is to provide service to people in need, promote their voice in society, and to call the church and all people to do the same."

Human Services
9
The Children's Clinic 'Serving Children and Their Families'

TCC Family Health mission is to provide innovative, integrated, quality health care that will contribute to a healthy community, focusing on those in need and working with patients and the community as partners in their overall well-being.

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10
Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino Counties

Our mission is to alleviate hunger in the inland empire of southern california.

Food & Nutrition
11
The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley

The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.

Housing & Shelter
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Club of Tustin. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
11/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PATHWAYS OF HOPE: $140,000 · OtherPATHWAYS OF HOPELAGUNA FOOD PANTRY: $126,250 · OtherLAGUNA FOOD PANTRYDWELLING PLACE ANAHEIM: $75,000 · OtherDWELLING PLACE ANAHEIMSOUTHBEND UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $47,400 · OtherSOUTHBEND UNITED METHODIST CHURCHUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $46,635 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCESAN FRANCISCO SOLANO FOOD PANTRY: $35,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO SOLANO FOOD PANTRYGRATEFUL HEARTS STOREHOUSE INC: $25,000 · OtherFAMILIES FORWARD: $25,000 · Other+9 more: $105,200 · Other+9 moreGRACE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesGRACE SOCIA…LATINO HEALTH ACCESS: $25,000 · Human ServicesLATINO HEAL…HELPING OTHERS PREPARE FOR ETERNITY: $19,600 · Human ServicesHELPING OTH…DELHI CENTER: $9,000 · Human ServicesDELHI CENTE…SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FULLERTON: $49,920 · EducationGIVING CHILDREN HOPE: $32,000 · InternationalVITAL ACCESS CARE FOUNDATION: $24,760 · HealthCOUNCIL OF ORANGE COUNTY SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL: $15,000 · Religion
Other$625,485Human Services$88,600Food & Nutrition$50,000Education$49,920International$32,000Health$24,760Religion$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAGUNA FOOD PANTRY: $126,250 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FULLERTON: $49,920 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $35,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGIVING CHILDREN HOPE: $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRATEFUL HEARTS STOREHOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLATINO HEALTH ACCESS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVITAL ACCESS CARE FOUNDATION: $24,760 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHELPING OTHERS PREPARE FOR ETERNITY: $19,600 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOUNCIL OF ORANGE COUNTY SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL: $15,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELHI CENTER: $9,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHUNGER FREE AMERICA INC: $7,000 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.

Orange County Communi…Orange County's Unite…Sisters of St Joseph …Angels Baseball Found…O L Halsell FoundationThe Devto Support Fou…St Joseph Health Syst…Giving Children HopeFarmers & Merchants B…Edwards Lifesciences …Weingart FoundationSempra Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA39.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Angels Baseball Foundation Inc · O L Halsell Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · St Joseph Health System Foundation · Giving Children Hope · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Sempra 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 Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%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 · 0–40%
    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 26 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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