California · Nonprofit
High Desert Second Chance
High Desert Second Chance (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,891 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($184,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $756k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $541k
- Net assets
- $457k
What High Desert Second Chance does
Mission
Foodbank Distribution Center which networks with 46 partner agencies across the High Desert area. We also operate a pantry for the homeless, a direct foodbank serice program that delivers food, activites relating to donation and distribution of food to underserved communities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Direct or inderect food distribution: High Desert Second Chance operates a warehouse facility distributing donated and purchased food to 46 community partnerships in the high desert area. The community partnership includes: churches, food pantries,soup kitchen,Senior Center,Homeless Shelters, colleges and supplemental food programs for these communities that lack brick and motor pantries. We service indinidual families that are in need of supplemental food support. The Foodbank schedules weekly mobile pantry distribution on Saturday that delivers fresh, dry and frozen food. High Desert Second Chance Foodbank has distributed 1.4 million pounds of food, the equivalent of 173 thousand meals,through the community partnership and its own direct services 50% of the food that was distributed was donated food through the food rescue program which captures and distributes surplus food from growers, processor and retail outlets which would end up in our landfills.
$414,739 spent$755,641 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $414,739.
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 2024 to 2025, from $330k to $457k (+38%).
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: 2019 30% · 2020 41% · 2021 33% · 2022 73% · 2023 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of High Desert Second Chance’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $55k → $2k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 High Desert Second Chance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 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
High Desert Second Chance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 High Desert Second Chance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 73% · 2019 81% · 2020 56% · 2021 76% · 2022 35% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
30% of High Desert Second Chance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
95% of High Desert Second Chance's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k 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
High Desert Second Chance has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like High Desert Second Chance
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 High Desert Second Chance: 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 High Desert Second Chance?
- High Desert Second Chance (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,891 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($184,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does High Desert Second Chance have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $540,891 in grants to High Desert Second Chance, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of High Desert Second Chance?
- KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS is the largest funder on record, with $184,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like High Desert Second Chance 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing