California · Nonprofit
PLENTIFUL
PLENTIFUL (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,536,171 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,651,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Plentiful does
Mission
1. Help kitchen's mission is to help end hunger by connecting people who are food insecure with availble providers and resources that fit into the busy schedules of low income, food insecure folks. So often, emergency food is optimized to reduce costs for providers, instead of prioritizing the needs of the beneficiary and making it easy to get the help they need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The organization's program service evolved due to the acquisition of Plentiful technology platform and its integration.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
In 2023, help kitchen offered two primary products to help support and connect the charitable food system. The first is an on demand, emergency service app to help people who are food insecure find food in real time. Someone in need can access this program by texting "food" to pantry, and then through a series of simple exchanges they would be matched with a nearby food access point, usually a food pantry but in some cases they were directed to hot meals that were available for pickup at restaurants. Food insecure individuals can also access this program through an app (ios or android) or on the web in nine languages. The second program is an app for food access points to manage their check-in, communicate directly with the people they serve, and handle reporting on their impact. The majority of funds that were distributed as part of the hot meal program paid for the cost of the meals. The majority of funds that were distributed for all other programs paid for software development and communication activation, onboarding, and support. These programs were active in a handful of geographies, but primarily new york city and metro denver.
$2,295,459 spentof which $3,043 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,295,459.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.9M to $3.2M (+63%).
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.
99% of PLENTIFUL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Catherine Compitello
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $11M → $3.8M.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 PLENTIFUL’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
PLENTIFUL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 PLENTIFUL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 56% · 2023 56% — 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
92% of PLENTIFUL'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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PLENTIFUL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PLENTIFUL
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
36% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Focf LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PLENTIFUL: 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 PLENTIFUL?
- PLENTIFUL (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,536,171 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,651,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PLENTIFUL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $20,536,171 in grants to PLENTIFUL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLENTIFUL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,651,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLENTIFUL 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 2022–2024), 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