California · Nonprofit
FOOD SHARE INC
FOOD SHARE INC (California) receives grants from 163 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,231,476 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,925,702). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 163
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $40M
What Food Share Inc does
Mission
For over 40 years food share has been feeding the hungry in ventura county. It all began when eight friends banded together to provide food to those in need under a bridge in ventura, ca. The early philanthropic movement started in a family garage, quickly outgrew an unused fire station in saticoy and now operates in oxnard, ca with three warehouses and a combined 46,000 square feet. Today staff and volunteers distribute 21.2 million pounds of food, or 17.7 million meals annually through its 200 pantry and program partners. As ventura county's only regional food bank, food share provides food for approximately 250,000 neighbors annually. Food share is a member of feeding america, the nation's largest hunger-relief network of food banks, as well as the california association of food banks.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food distribution program - food share's network of 200 pantries and partner agencies distribute nutritious food to approximately 250,000 ventura county residents. These agencies helped distribute over 20 million pounds in fiscal year 2024-2025.
$27,533,598 spentof which $23,914,688 as grants$15,696 earned by the program72% of program spendingThe united states department of agriculture (usda) funded nutrition programs including commodity supplemental food program (csfp) and the emergency food assistance program (tefap). Csfp provides a monthly "senior kit" box of food to low income seniors (aged 60+) at no cost. Tefap provides food for distribution to low income families in ventura county at no cost to eligible recipients. Over 4.5 million pounds of food were distributed in fiscal year 2024-2025 through these two programs.
$9,726,994 spentof which $9,125,919 as grants26% of program spendingDiaper distribution program (diaper bank) - during the fiscal year 2024-2025, food share distributed nearly 2.5 million diapers and wipes to families with children throughout ventura county.
$517,931 spentof which $499,286 as grants1% of program spendingFarmworker distribution: ventura county farms and ranches employ approximately 42,000 farmworkers. These farmworkers are vital to the agricultural industry, yet there is a high rate of poverty and food insecurity among this segment of ventura county's population. During the fiscal year 2024-2025, food share distributed over 198,000 pounds of nutritious food to farmworker families. In addition, kids' nutrition programs, including kids' farmers' market and kids' kitchen initiatives served children throughout the county with healthy foods and nutrition education.
$244,880 spentof which $211,002 as grants1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $38,023,403.
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 2022 to 2023, from $18M to $30M (+63%).
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 22% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 12% · 2022 8% · 2023 27% · 2024 25% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FOOD SHARE 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. 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
Monica White
President/CEO
Board chair
Drew West
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 70 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.5M.
30 of 163 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SHARE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 163 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 SHARE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
68% 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 SHARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 55% · 2019 54% · 2020 19% · 2021 45% · 2022 36% · 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
40% of FOOD SHARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 SHARE 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. $7.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 SHARE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FOOD SHARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
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.
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 SHARE 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 SHARE INC?
- FOOD SHARE INC (California) receives grants from 163 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,231,476 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,925,702). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD SHARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 163 organizations giving $22,231,476 in grants to FOOD SHARE INC, 86 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD SHARE INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $4,925,702 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD SHARE 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 163 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