California · Nonprofit
FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY
FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY (California) receives grants from 147 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,737,414 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,021,626). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 147
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Food Bank for Monterey County does
Mission
To distribute food to alleviate hunger, provide emergency food services during a natural disaster, and conduct educational awareness programs relating to hunger issues in monterey county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency food assistance program (efap) - this program distributes usda food commodities at 112 sites throughout monterey county on a weekly basis to families in need. On average, this one program alone serves 24,330 households per month, with a total of 8.5 million pounds of food annually.
$13,585,676 spent47% of program spendingAgency clearinghouse program - this is a network of approximately 112 monterey county non-profit agencies that rely on the food bank as their primary food resource to provide food assistance that serve the elderly, chronically ill, homeless, unemployed, and working poor. The agencies served 152,750 households with 3.5 million pounds of food.
$12,773,762 spent44% of program spendingFamily market - this is the food bank's direct food distribution program and operates like a farmer's market. Food distributed consists of fresh, locally grown produce and other produce from the state of california. It is to help with the growing health concerns among the population served, specifically diabetes and obesity. There are now a total of 10 sites countywide that each serve between 200-400 people with each household receiving approximately 50-100 pounds of food.
$2,790,864 spent10% of program spendingEducation and advocacy - this program promotes the food bank's mission in the community by educating people about the personal, political, and social issues related to hunger.
$17,824 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,168,126.
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 2020 to 2021, from $22M to $30M (+36%).
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 11% · 2018 12% · 2019 13% · 2020 18% · 2021 63% · 2022 15% · 2023 17% · 2024 6% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (25% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Melissa Kendrick
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.9M.
31 of 147 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 147 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
FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
62% 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 FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 43% · 2019 46% · 2020 17% · 2021 31% · 2022 37% · 2023 20% — 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
46% of FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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 FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY is better cushioned than half of the 102 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 102 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: 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 FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY?
- FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY (California) receives grants from 147 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,737,414 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,021,626). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 147 organizations giving $18,737,414 in grants to FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY, 84 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $4,021,626 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 147 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