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IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK FOUNDATION

IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,600 to it, the largest being SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$150k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$137k
Net assets
$-902415
0/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Imperial Valley Food Bank Foundation does

Mission

Imperial Valley Food Bank Foundation, inc was formed to support imperial valley food bank through obtaining the new market tax credit (nmtc) program.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Imperial Valley Food Bank Foundation, inc was formed to support imperial valley food bank through obtaining the new market tax credit (nmtc) program.

    $209,068 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $209,068.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($848k) Expenses 100 ($319k) Net assets 100 ($529k)2021 Revenue 18 ($150k) Expenses 128 ($410k) Net assets -22 ($-116278)2022 Revenue 18 ($150k) Expenses 136 ($435k) Net assets -76 ($-401116)2023 Revenue 19 ($162k) Expenses 130 ($416k) Net assets -124 ($-655133)2024 Revenue 18 ($150k) Expenses 124 ($397k) Net assets -171 ($-902415)
20182021202220232024
Revenue (18)Expenses (124)Net assets (-171)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 2021 to 2022, from $6.3M to $6.0M (−5%).

$7.4M
$6.3M
$6.0M
$5.7M
$5.5M
20182021202220232024
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.

2018
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$529k
’18
−$260k
’21
−$285k
’22
−$254k
’23
−$247k
’24
4.2
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.

Chief executive

Sara Griffen

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20182021202220232024
Listed66666
Joined··+1+0+1
No longer listed··101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $52k → $0.

From the IRS filings of IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 5 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 FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

82% 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 FOUNDATION.

44%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.

“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

62% of IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

IL
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK FOUNDATION's revenue fell 82% between 2018 and 2024.

Operating margin−165% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−25% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition 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

53% of spending goes to programs.

Program 53%Management 0%Fundraising 47%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Imperial Valley Food Bank · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK 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 IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK FOUNDATION?
IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,600 to it, the largest being SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $136,600 in grants to IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK FOUNDATION?
SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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