California · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND
CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND (California) receives grants from 159 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,073,625 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,017,716). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $215M
- Funders on record
- 159
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $50M
What Children's Hunger Fund does
Mission
Our mission is to deliver hope to suffering children by equipping local churches for gospel-centered mercy ministry.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Children's Hunger Fund distributed more than $185,000,000 in food, clothing, and other relief supplies to children in need across the united states and selected developing countries worldwide. By providing for physical needs, Children's Hunger Fund programs facilitate relationships and provide lasting impact in the lives of those in need.
$194,803,317 spentof which $185,532,878 as grants$132,407 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $194,803,317.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $41M to $60M (+46%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 0% · 2026 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Dana Scannell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $4.9M.
31 of 159 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $28M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children's Hunger Fund Legacy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 159 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 31% · 2019 41% · 2020 26% · 2021 24% · 2022 26% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
57% of CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside California, across 26 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 97 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 97 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2026
Government funding CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Agency for International Development$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Children's Hunger Fund Legacy Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND?
- CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND (California) receives grants from 159 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,073,625 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,017,716). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND have?
- IRS filings report 159 organizations giving $26,073,625 in grants to CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,017,716 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 159 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing