California · Nonprofit
JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK
JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK (California) receives grants from 365 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,318,117 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($5,647,343). 205 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111M
- Funders on record
- 365
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $100M
What Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank does
Mission
The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in san diego county. Its mission is to provide nutritious food to people in need, advocate for the hungry, and educate the public about hunger-related issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The member agency program (also known as the food to nonprofits program) relies on partnerships with hundreds of nonprofit agencies in the community that help the san diego food bank provide food assistance and support to hundreds of thousands of individuals and families who face food insecurity in the san diego region. In the fiscal year ended 6/30/25, the san diego food bank worked with more than 450 nonprofit partners that included food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, low-income daycare centers, after school programs, senior centers, and disability programs to distribute food and nonfood items to people in need.
$69,639,518 spentof which $62,878,587 as grants$656,546 earned by the program71% of program spendingThe emergency food assistance program (efap, also known as tefap) is a federal program that provides monthly emergency and supplemental food to individuals and families who meet income guidelines set by the federal government. In the fiscal year ended 6/30/25, the san diego food bank served an average of 85,000 individuals per month through the efap program and distributed over 12 million pounds of food inventory.
$18,167,646 spentof which $15,407,522 as grants18% of program spendingThe commodity supplemental food program (csfp) is a federally supported program that provides food and nutrition education to seniors over the age of 60. The program provides participants with a 40-pound box of food every month that is filled with a variety of nutritious food items. In the fiscal year ended 6/30/25, the san diego food bank served approximately 15,000 seniors every month and distributed just over 6 million pounds of food.
$8,481,494 spentof which $6,484,253 as grants9% of program spendingThe san diego food bank operates several additional programs that distribute nutritious food to people in need, including the food 4 kids back pack program, farm to family (which distributes fresh produce,) and calfresh outreach.
$2,013,121 spentof which $824,602 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $98,301,779.
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 $85M to $116M (+37%).
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 4% · 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 13% · 2024 36% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% 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.
Chief executive
Casey Castillo
CEO
Board chair
Clifford Rip Rippetoe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 48 funders to 128 funders, grant income rose $871k → $4.7M.
34 of 365 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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: $3.4M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The San Diego Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK raised.
From the IRS filings of JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 365 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
JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 18% · 2019 14% · 2020 14% · 2021 14% · 2022 22% · 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
36% of JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
56% of JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK'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. Of the $15M that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 31 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 31 food & nutrition nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 3 related entities
- The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank Building LLC · disregarded
- Murphy Canyon Property LLC · disregarded
- 2260 Oak Ridge Way LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK?
- JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK (California) receives grants from 365 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,318,117 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($5,647,343). 205 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 365 organizations giving $34,318,117 in grants to JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK, 205 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO is the largest funder on record, with $5,647,343 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 365 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