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Food Now Inc

Food Now Inc (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $634,956 to it, the largest being COACHELLA VALLEY WELLNESS FOUNDATION ($153,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.2M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$635k
Net assets
$608k
13/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Food Now Inc does

Mission

Food now strives to improve the quality of life for residents of the western coachella valley by providing food assistance, community outreach and support services which strengthen families and build healthy communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. For fy 2024/2025 the agency accomplished the following: food assistance: agency provided weekly supplemental food distributions for 4,319 unduplicated low-income households living in the western coachella valley, including 12,007 individuals, (6,066 adults, 2,235 seniors, and 3,706 children). For f/y 2024/2025 the agency distributed approximately 942,354 pounds of food, enough food for approximately 1,282,000 meals.reductions in snap and usda benefits during 2025 triggered an increase in clients. Usda reduction included eliminating fresh meat and dairy products. Food now has worked with distributor partners to offset adjustments with nutritious alternatives when available. Additional clients continue to use food now for supplemental weekly food distribution.homeless needs program: the agency provides ready-to-eat meals for unsheltered individuals. Home deliveries: the agency provides home deliveries of weekly food distributions for individuals who are housebound due to medical conditions or face transportation barriers. Childrens backpack weekend meal program: food now has an mou with palm springs unified school district to provide chronically hungry children with additional meals…

    $1,979,898 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,979,898.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($627k) Expenses 100 ($573k) Net assets -104 ($-92352)2018 Revenue 202 ($1.3M) Expenses 210 ($1.2M) Net assets -35 ($-31045)2019 Revenue 198 ($1.2M) Expenses 212 ($1.2M) Net assets -49 ($-43585)2020 Revenue 271 ($1.7M) Expenses 274 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($89k)2021 Revenue 352 ($2.2M) Expenses 356 ($2.0M) Net assets 291 ($258k)2022 Revenue 275 ($1.7M) Expenses 292 ($1.7M) Net assets 352 ($312k)2023 Revenue 321 ($2.0M) Expenses 347 ($2.0M) Net assets 382 ($338k)2024 Revenue 326 ($2.0M) Expenses 338 ($1.9M) Net assets 507 ($448k)2025 Revenue 347 ($2.2M) Expenses 353 ($2.0M) Net assets 687 ($608k)
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Revenue (347)Expenses (353)Net assets (687)

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 $459k to $616k (+34%).

$122k
$145k
$34k
$122k
$263k
$317k
$341k
$459k
$616k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 2% · 2019 30% · 2020 43% · 2021 31% · 2022 26% · 2023 27% · 2024 27% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$54k
’17
$61k
’18
$28k
’19
$132k
’20
$169k
’21
$54k
’22
$26k
’23
$111k
’24
$153k
’25
3.5
months of
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.

Board chair

Robert Fraschetti

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+4+1+2+0+1+2+2+3
No longer listed·50101224
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $20k → $58k.

3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Now Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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 Now Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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

74% 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 Now Inc.

24%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 51% · 2019 58% · 2020 36% · 2021 47% · 2022 37% · 2023 35% — 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

64% of Food Now Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

96% of Food Now Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

MN
MI
CT
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113k 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

Organizations like Food Now 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 1%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds Food Now Inc?
Food Now Inc (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $634,956 to it, the largest being COACHELLA VALLEY WELLNESS FOUNDATION ($153,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Food Now Inc have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $634,956 in grants to Food Now Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Food Now Inc?
COACHELLA VALLEY WELLNESS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $153,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Food Now 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.

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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 19 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