California · Nonprofit
Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc
Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,240,085 to it, the largest being SANDBERG GOLDBERG BERNTHAL FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($200,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc does
Mission
To provide nutritious food that supports people in creating a healthy and better life. The organization operates a food bank providing emergency food and nutritional information to people in need of assistance in the county of mendocino, ca.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, the Mendocino Food & Nutrition Program distributed 3.6 million pounds of food throughout Mendocino County through the program of Fort Bragg Food Bank and our network of 30+ food distribution partners, serving 14,570 individuals in Mendocino County. 172,652 meals were provided at our partners soup kitchens and feeding sites throughout Mendocino County.
$7,540,647 spentof which $688,052 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,540,647.
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 $2.1M to $3.0M (+42%).
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 4% · 2020 15% · 2021 19% · 2022 17% · 2023 20% · 2024 13%. 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 7 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
Amanda Friscia
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $17k → $223k.
9 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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
Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 47% · 2019 61% · 2020 28% · 2021 26% · 2022 23% · 2023 18% — 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
73% of Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
51% of Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc'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 $612k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $628k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc
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
97%
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 Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc: 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 Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc?
- Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,240,085 to it, the largest being SANDBERG GOLDBERG BERNTHAL FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($200,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,240,085 in grants to Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc?
- SANDBERG GOLDBERG BERNTHAL FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc 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 28 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