California · Nonprofit
FOOD FINDERS INC
FOOD FINDERS INC (California) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,509,833 to it, the largest being THE KROGER CO ZERO HUNGER ZERO WASTE FOUNDATION ($912,500). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 138
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Food Finders Inc does
Mission
To eliminate hunger and food waste while improving nutrition in food insecure communities. Our food donation program links surplus food donations to our non-profit partners that provide meal or pantry services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Food rescue program:in 2024, we rescued 15,160,794 pounds of food. This was a 4.5% increase in food rescued from 2023. This provided 12,629,066 meals. By diverting this rescued food we kept 8,232,311 pounds of co2 out of the landfills and we saved 6,913,064 gallons of water. This food was distributed to 299 partner agencies. Of the 299 agencies served, 33 were new in 2024. We rescued food from 545 food donors of which 101 were new. Our 36 year grand total of rescued food was 243,368,857 pounds.
$30,644,164 spentof which $29,102,258 as grants99% of program spendingFood 4 kids:our food 4 kids program provides weekend meal boxes to 47 long beach schools so that students and their families have enough food to eat over the weekend. We distributed 14,785 boxes for a total of 285,491 pounds and 237,814 meals.
$210,006 spent1% of program spendingFood hub/community marketplace:the food hub is a refrigerated shipping container located in admiral kidd park on the westside of long beach. We distribute the 4th saturday of each month. In 2024, we served 2,641 households with 152,577 pounds of food. This was an 123% increase of households served from 2023. In april of 2024 we began a distribution from the hub on wednesdays. We called this our pop-up distribution. From april through december we distributed 271,399 pounds of food.
$102,343 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,956,513.
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 2019 to 2020, from $657k to $4.5M (+584%).
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% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FOOD FINDERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Diana Lara
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $225k → $1.1M.
25 of 138 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 FINDERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 138 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 FINDERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
48% 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 FINDERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 17% · 2019 19% · 2020 10% · 2021 20% · 2022 39% · 2023 41% — 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.
How long its funders stay
35% of FOOD FINDERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
59% of FOOD FINDERS INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 FINDERS INC has grown faster than half of the 268 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding FOOD FINDERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18k on record.
- Department of Justice$18k
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 FOOD FINDERS INC
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
99% 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 FINDERS INC: 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 FINDERS INC?
- FOOD FINDERS INC (California) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,509,833 to it, the largest being THE KROGER CO ZERO HUNGER ZERO WASTE FOUNDATION ($912,500). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD FINDERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 138 organizations giving $8,509,833 in grants to FOOD FINDERS INC, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD FINDERS INC?
- THE KROGER CO ZERO HUNGER ZERO WASTE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $912,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD FINDERS INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 138 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