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Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation

Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,962 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($790,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$235k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$1.4M
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%
01What it does

What Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation does

Mission

including extended illness, injury, natural disaster, fire, flood, or other special situation beyond their control.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide assistance to employees & immediate family members of Grocery Outlet, Inc. or individual store operators or their employees, who suffer hardship due to extended illness, injury, natural disaster, fire, flood or a special situation that is beyond their control. During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Board of Directors evaluated the needs of qualified individuals and awarded grants amounting to $219,541 to people in need of assistance.

    $219,541 spentof which $219,541 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $219,541.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($189k) Expenses 100 ($145k) Net assets 100 ($203k)2018 Revenue 149 ($282k) Expenses 105 ($152k) Net assets 164 ($333k)2019 Revenue 237 ($447k) Expenses 138 ($201k) Net assets 285 ($579k)2020 Revenue 491 ($929k) Expenses 112 ($163k) Net assets 661 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 106 ($199k) Expenses 159 ($231k) Net assets 645 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 145 ($274k) Expenses 139 ($202k) Net assets 684 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 153 ($289k) Expenses 213 ($309k) Net assets 674 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 124 ($235k) Expenses 173 ($252k) Net assets 666 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (124)Expenses (173)Net assets (666)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $579k to $1.3M (+132%).

$203k
$333k
$579k
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.4M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’17
$130k
’18
$246k
’19
$766k
’20
−$32k
’21
$72k
’22
−$20k
’23
−$16k
’24
65
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed4555534
Joined·+1+1+0+0+0+2
No longer listed·010021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $77k → $162k.

5 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation.

53%
largest funder
96%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 76% · 2021 78% · 2022 62% · 2023 59% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Against its field

Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve64.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 5 states

OR
NV
PA
CA
FL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation: 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 Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation?
Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,962 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($790,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,496,962 in grants to Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $790,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Grocery Outlet Touching Lives Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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