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Peninsula Food Runners Inc

Peninsula Food Runners Inc (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,186,796 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($410,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.9M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$270k
9/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Peninsula Food Runners Inc does

Mission

Peninsula Food Runners' mission is to alleviate hunger and minimize food waste in the San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Every day, our volunteers pick up and deliver a wide variety of wonderfully prepared and non-prepared surplus food to community organizations that feed their clients in need.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Organization's primary program is Food Recovery and Distribution. During 2024, over 4.4 million pounds of food was recovered and distributed. The program was able to deliver over 58,000 meals to shelters, pantries, food banks, schools, homeless programs and low-income families. The program was made possible by 874 Food Donors and 2,095 Volunteers.

    $1,874,839 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,874,839.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($995k) Net assets 100 ($179k)2018 Revenue 108 ($1.1M) Expenses 112 ($1.1M) Net assets 114 ($204k)2019 Revenue 128 ($1.3M) Expenses 134 ($1.3M) Net assets 121 ($216k)2020 Revenue 118 ($1.2M) Expenses 127 ($1.3M) Net assets 107 ($192k)2021 Revenue 163 ($1.7M) Expenses 166 ($1.7M) Net assets 142 ($254k)2022 Revenue 165 ($1.7M) Expenses 169 ($1.7M) Net assets 176 ($314k)2023 Revenue 161 ($1.7M) Expenses 170 ($1.7M) Net assets 177 ($316k)2024 Revenue 180 ($1.9M) Expenses 195 ($1.9M) Net assets 151 ($270k)
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Revenue (180)Expenses (195)Net assets (151)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 $254k to $314k (+24%).

$179k
$217k
$220k
$194k
$254k
$314k
$316k
$270k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Peninsula Food Runners Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,195 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$57k
’17
$25k
’18
$13k
’19
−$25k
’20
$63k
’21
$60k
’22
$2k
’23
−$46k
’24
1.6
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

Maria Yap

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed56767776
Joined·+2+2+0+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·1110001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $134k → $129k.

8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Peninsula Food Runners Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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

Peninsula Food Runners Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

35%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 35% · 2021 42% · 2022 37% · 2023 39% — 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

38% of Peninsula Food Runners Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

99% of Peninsula Food Runners Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Peninsula Food Runners Inc's revenue grew 80% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−2% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 2%Fundraising 1%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Peninsula Food Runners Inc?
Peninsula Food Runners Inc (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,186,796 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($410,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Peninsula Food Runners Inc have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,186,796 in grants to Peninsula Food Runners Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Peninsula Food Runners Inc?
SUNLIGHT GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $410,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Peninsula Food Runners 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.

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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 24 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