California · Nonprofit
FOODCYCLE
FOODCYCLE (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $818,256 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY PARTNERS ($325,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $818k
- Net assets
- $743k
What Foodcycle does
Mission
Foodcycle's mission is to reduce food insecurity and prevent food waste by recovering surplus edible food and redistributing it at no cost to nonprofit organizations serving food-insecure communities across los angeles county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Foodcycle's primary program recovers surplus edible food from grocery stores, food distributors, manufacturers, farms, and food service businesses and redistributes it free of charge to nonprofit organizations serving food-insecure populations. Foodcycle operates daily recovery and delivery routes using trained staff and volunteers, coordinating pickups, aggregation, and delivery to over 200 food pantries, shelters, and community distribution sites throughout los angeles county. During calendar year 2025, Foodcycle diverted more than 11 million pounds of edible food from landfills and distributed the equivalent of more than 9 million meals to food-insecure communities.
$828,937 spent$792,188 earned by the program93% of program spendingFoodcycle supports its food recovery program through partnerships with local nonprofit organizations, municipalities, and community groups. The organization engages more than 265 trained volunteers annually to assist with food recovery and distribution efforts and utilizes the careit app to track food donations, coordinate logistics, and support regulatory reporting related to food recovery requirements. Foodcycle also provides outreach and technical assistance to food donors and recipient organizations to support safe food handling, efficient distribution, and ongoing participation in food recovery programs.
$60,250 spent7% of program spendingFoodcycle advances environmental sustainability by redirecting surplus food that would otherwise be disposed of in landfills, reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with food waste. The organization utilizes off-grid refrigerated storage and low-emission or electric vehicles to support climate-smart food recovery and distribution operations.
FoodCycle carries out its mission through a coordinated food recovery and redistribution system serving communities across Los Angeles County. The organization rescues surplus edible food that would otherwise be disposed of from grocery stores, food distributors, manufacturers, farmers markets, and food service businesses and redistributes it at no cost to nonprofit organizations serving individuals and families experiencing food insecurity.FoodCycle operates daily recovery and delivery routes using trained staff drivers and volunteers. Recovered food is aggregated, temporarily stored when necessary, and delivered to a network of nonprofit partners, including food pantries, shelters, after-school programs, and community distribution sites. FoodCycle emphasizes equitable access by prioritizing service in communities most impacted by food insecurity.To support efficient operations and accountability, FoodCycle utilizes the Careit app to coordinate logistics, track food donations, and document recovery and distribution activity. This system supports operational planning and assists partner organizations and municipalities with record-keeping related to food recovery…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $889,187.
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 2023 to 2024, from $140k to $604k (+332%).
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.
31% of FOODCYCLE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Jeffrey Walsh
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $3k → $96k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 FOODCYCLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 17 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
FOODCYCLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 FOODCYCLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 50% · 2022 35% · 2023 26% — 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
80% of FOODCYCLE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 65% 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
98% of FOODCYCLE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k 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.
Against its field
FOODCYCLE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FOODCYCLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $653k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$653k
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 FOODCYCLE
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
37%
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 FOODCYCLE: 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 FOODCYCLE?
- FOODCYCLE (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $818,256 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY PARTNERS ($325,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOODCYCLE have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $818,256 in grants to FOODCYCLE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOODCYCLE?
- COMMUNITY PARTNERS is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOODCYCLE 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 17 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