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EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT

EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,097 to it, the largest being THE PMG FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$167k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$65k
Net assets
$66k
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What East Bay Food Justice Project does

Mission

serving free meals to the public

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. We served free hot meals to the public every day, serving 30 to 100 people at each meal

    $81,710 spent
    50% of program spending
  2. We distributed fresh produce and other food to needy people several times each week and supplied food to community refrigerators

    $81,710 spent
    50% of program spending
  3. We distributed warm clothing and other necessities to people living in street camps.

    $1,619 spent
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $165,039.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($179k) Expenses 100 ($179k) Net assets 100 ($67k)2022 Revenue 102 ($182k) Expenses 101 ($182k) Net assets 101 ($68k)2023 Revenue 92 ($165k) Expenses 98 ($175k) Net assets 85 ($57k)2024 Revenue 69 ($123k) Expenses 65 ($117k) Net assets 95 ($64k)2025 Revenue 93 ($167k) Expenses 92 ($165k) Net assets 98 ($66k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (93)Expenses (92)Net assets (98)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $68k to $57k (−16%).

$67k
$68k
$57k
$64k
$66k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$17
’21
$389
’22
−$11k
’23
$7k
’24
$2k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Joseph Leisner

chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $68.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

31% 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 EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT.

46%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

Where its funders are

EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.

MA
PA
CA
DE

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT: 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 EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT?
EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,097 to it, the largest being THE PMG FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $65,097 in grants to EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT?
THE PMG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EAST BAY FOOD JUSTICE PROJECT 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing