California · Nonprofit
FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC
FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC (California) receives grants from 137 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,609,276 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($5,324,282). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53M
- Funders on record
- 137
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Food in Need of Distribution Inc does
Mission
Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Find offers three major categories of program services to the community. The suite of programs is designed to help support food insecure individuals transition from their dependency on core food distribution programs to self sufficiency in feeding themselves, with a strong understanding that all individuals' situation has a unique set of circumstances. For each individual how they utilize find programs within this program impact framework is dependent on the client's situational needs. Find recognizes, appreciates and respects these factors and supports clients for any length of time needed to ensure their primal needs of food intake for health is met.see schedule o for continuation.ending hunger for today programsthis suite of programs is designed to provide access to clients' core needs of healthy foods through food distribution sites to be able to survive and have the ability to thrive. - agency partners - find collaborates with community-based organizations to help supply their food pantries and food distributions at more than 100 different distribution sites for low income members of the community. Types of partners include soup kitchens, religious organizations, homeless…
$43,691,357 spentof which $39,761,767 as grants$218,345 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $43,691,357.
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 2024 to 2025, from $24M to $46M (+94%).
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 3% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 24% · 2021 35% · 2022 30% · 2023 30% · 2024 36% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Deborah S Espinosa
President & CEO
Board chair
Paul Mackey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 57 funders, grant income rose $791k → $1.9M.
26 of 137 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $89k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of the Desert). These are real filings, and they are not money FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 137 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 IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% 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 IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 56% · 2019 48% · 2020 49% · 2021 47% · 2022 34% · 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
43% of FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC'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
FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M 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 IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Find Qalicb Organization · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC?
- FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC (California) receives grants from 137 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,609,276 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($5,324,282). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 137 organizations giving $16,609,276 in grants to FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $5,324,282 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 137 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