California · Nonprofit
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK (California) receives grants from 843 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,654,745 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($30,091,230). 410 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $373M
- Funders on record
- 843
- Grants received
- $124M
- Net assets
- $170M
What Los Angeles Regional Food Bank does
Mission
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. To fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition insecurity through our partner agency network and directly through programs;* energizes the community to get involved and support hunger relief;* conducts hunger and nutrition education and awareness campaigns and advocate for public policies that benefit the people we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General distribution of product to agencies provides donated and purchased food and other grocery products to 603 charitable organizations serving 837 sites located throughout los angeles county. Agencies provide grocery products or serve meals to people seeking or requiring assistance as designed by the programs of the agencies. In order for an agency to receive grocery product from the food bank, an agency must complete the food bank's application process and the food bank's staff must conduct an on-site monitoring of the agency's site(s). Once approved for membership, an agency either picks up from the food bank's distribution center or receives a food bank delivery depending on the location of the agency. Purchased food that is distributed through shop-smart-save program has an average margin of 4.9%, thus allowing the food bank to recoup some of its storage and distribution costs. Shop-smart-save program revenues are included under general food distribution program. In 2025, 100% of donated food and product was distributed to agencies free of charge. "grants" relate to food distributions to charitable agencies
$129,460,959 spentof which $91,649,314 as grants$855,244 earned by the program41% of program spendingProduct acquisitions department works with donors to identify surplus food to be picked up by the food bank's fleet of trucks, and extra helpings is a food recovery program linking agencies with food donation sources. Extra helpings was originally developed to facilitate the contribution of food from restaurants, hotels, and the hospitality industry to agencies, and has expanded to include donations from retail grocery stores and other food sources. "grants" relate to food distributions to charitable agencies through the extra helpings program.
$83,737,752 spentof which $83,494,115 as grants26% of program spendingThe emergency food assistance program (tefap) provides emergency food assistance to residents of los angeles county individually and through qualified agencies and is partially funded by the united states department of agriculture (usda) through its agent, the californiadepartment of social services. "grants" relate to food distributions to charitable agencies through tefap.
$42,354,426 spentof which $37,517,104 as grants13% of program spendingProduce and perishables program distributes a variety of fresh, nutritious, and healthy produce donated through local and regional produce distributors and growers to its agencies. The produce and perishable foods are distributed to agencies and through food bank programs. "grants" relate to food distributions to charitable organizations. Expenses: $32,421,069 grants: $31,812,702 revenue: $0usda commodity supplemental food program (csfp) allows the food bank to distribute supplemental food to low-income seniors age 60 and older who are especially vulnerable to health problems resulting from general and continued hunger due to insufficient foods. Csfp is partially funded by the usda through its agent, the california department of social services. "grants" relate to direct food distribution to individuals. Expenses: $13,779,368 grants: $10,893,701 revenue: $0the local food purchase assistance program (lfpa), provides locally sourced food products purchased from regional farmers, aggregators, and food hubs. The program is designed to support small- and mid-sized agricultural producers while enhancing access to fresh, culturally relevant foods for underserved communities. Food…
$63,881,900 spentof which $48,945,278 as grants20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $319,435,037.
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 2019 to 2020, from $25M to $129M (+407%).
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 35% · 2018 28% · 2019 29% · 2020 21% · 2021 31% · 2022 32% · 2023 35% · 2024 39% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Michael Flood
President/CEO
Board chair
Gary Kirkpatrick
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 78 funders to 253 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $13M.
71 of 843 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 843 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
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 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 LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 57% · 2019 74% · 2020 24% · 2021 25% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% — 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 LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 44 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39M arriving through sponsors registered in 28 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.
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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
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK?
- LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK (California) receives grants from 843 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,654,745 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($30,091,230). 410 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 843 organizations giving $123,654,745 in grants to LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK, 410 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $30,091,230 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOS ANGELES REGIONAL 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 843 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