California · Nonprofit
IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK
IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,897,498 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS ($757,573). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What Imperial Valley Food Bank does
Mission
Fighting hunger - bringing health and hope to the imperial valley community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Usda commodities program - administer program, distributed commodity items to distribution sites in order to provide food to over 6,000 families on a monthly basis.
$4,506,671 spent45% of program spendingFood distribution to the needy - distributed food donated in our county to needy men, children, elderly and families also living in our county.
$5,442,302 spent$216,800 earned by the program54% of program spendingWeekend backpack program - provides food to school-age children dependent on school meals for majority of food. Food is added to their backpacks every friday for weekend consumption. At least 1,000 children are served weekly.
$177,668 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,126,641.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $9.0M to $17M (+90%).
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 37% · 2018 23% · 2019 59% · 2020 53% · 2021 39% · 2022 10% · 2023 11% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Sara Griffen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $67k → $867k.
14 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $319k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Imperial Valley Food Bank Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK raised.
From the IRS filings of IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
67% 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 IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 46% · 2019 63% · 2020 41% · 2021 39% · 2022 19% · 2023 29% — 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
29% of IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK'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
83% of IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $889k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Imperial Valley Food Bank Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK: 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 IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK?
- IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,897,498 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS ($757,573). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,897,498 in grants to IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK?
- CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS is the largest funder on record, with $757,573 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 55 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