California · Nonprofit
FOOD LITERACY CENTER
FOOD LITERACY CENTER (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,867,539 to it, the largest being SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS ($605,900). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Food Literacy Center does
Mission
Our mission is to inspire kids to eat their vegetables. We teach children in low-income elementary schools cooking, nutrition, gardening, and active play to improve our health, environment, and economy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
For 42% of sacramento elementary children who are food and nutrition insecure and at risk for diet-related disease, Food Literacy Center is the only provider of hands-on food and nutrition education to inspire kids to eat their vegetables and build healthy habits. We show up every day with joy and bravery to provide reliable, inclusive food and nutrition education for kids who need it most. We inspire kids to eat their vegetables! We teach children in low-income elementary schools cooking, nutrition, gardening, and active play to improve lifelong wellness.we create power through knowledge about food and nutrition to build flourishing and healthy communities.where you live affects health. Food and nutrition education creates food equity, especially in communities at highest risk for diet-related diseases. By teaching young students how to grow, cook, and eat their vegetables, we're establishing healthy habits that support a lifetime of success.be part of the solution: make a donation or volunteer. Email: info@foodliteracycenter.org
$864,633 spent$179,521 earned by the program77% of program spendingThe oak park farmers market serves 1,500 visitors weekly, it addresses local food deserts by offering fresh produce from small, diverse farms. The market supports low-income families by matching ebt (food stamps) sales up to $20, aligning with the center's mission to promote healthy eating and community health.our annual report is published on our website and lists program evaluation data and accomplishments.
$253,221 spent23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,117,854.
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 $1.0M to $2.7M (+161%).
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 21% · 2018 45% · 2021 8% · 2022 22% · 2023 36% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of FOOD LITERACY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Amber K Stott
CEO
Board chair
Felicia James
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $228k → $263k.
10 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 LITERACY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 LITERACY CENTER 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
72% 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 LITERACY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 30% · 2019 36% · 2020 28% · 2021 27% · 2022 73% · 2023 29% — 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
41% of FOOD LITERACY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
64% of FOOD LITERACY CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $306k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 LITERACY CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FOOD LITERACY CENTER
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 LITERACY CENTER: 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 LITERACY CENTER?
- FOOD LITERACY CENTER (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,867,539 to it, the largest being SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS ($605,900). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD LITERACY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $2,867,539 in grants to FOOD LITERACY CENTER, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD LITERACY CENTER?
- SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS is the largest funder on record, with $605,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD LITERACY CENTER 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 46 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