California · Nonprofit
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD (California) receives grants from 272 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,816,509 to it, the largest being CHUCK LORRE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,161,000). 166 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 272
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Project Angel Food does
Mission
Project Angel Food (the organization) improves health and fights food insecurity for critically ill individuals in los angeles county through its medically tailored meal program and nutrition counseling. For over 35 years, they have served over 20 million meals to 25,900 clients.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Project Angel Food's dedicated volunteers and staff provide nutritious, free meals to those too ill to cook. A team of registered dietitians collaborate with chefs for custom meal plans designed to nutritionally address each client's specific medical condition. In addition to volunteers, staff drivers distribute meals in the organization's fleet of refrigerated vans, which service 64 major routes across the 4,751 square miles of los angeles county, including the antelope valley, east los angeles, metro los angeles, san fernando valley, san gabriel valley, south los angeles, south bay/long beach, and west los angeles. Project Angel Food stands as the sole non-profit offering free food and nutrition services to individuals of all backgrounds and diagnoses countywide.in the 2025 fiscal year, Project Angel Food delivered 1,474,933 meals, and served 7,157 unduplicated clients, marking an 36% rise.during the same period, 5,814 volunteers dedicated approximately 47,881 hours, up 17% from 2, the equivalent of 62 fulltime employees.
$14,255,095 spent$7,338,725 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,255,095.
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 2022 to 2023, from $25M to $44M (+75%).
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 14% · 2018 19% · 2019 22% · 2020 15% · 2021 26% · 2022 34% · 2023 13% · 2024 8% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of PROJECT ANGEL FOOD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% 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
Richard Ayoub
CEO
Board chair
Robin Fujimoto
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 57 funders to 102 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $9.8M.
29 of 272 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $3k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Goss-Michael Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PROJECT ANGEL FOOD raised.
From the IRS filings of PROJECT ANGEL FOOD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 272 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
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
45% 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 PROJECT ANGEL FOOD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 16% · 2019 12% · 2020 5% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 51% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of PROJECT ANGEL FOOD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
76% of PROJECT ANGEL FOOD's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PROJECT ANGEL FOOD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $914k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$914k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PROJECT ANGEL FOOD
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 2 related entities
- 960 Vine LLC · disregarded
- Friends of Project Angel Food · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: 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 PROJECT ANGEL FOOD?
- PROJECT ANGEL FOOD (California) receives grants from 272 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,816,509 to it, the largest being CHUCK LORRE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,161,000). 166 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT ANGEL FOOD have?
- IRS filings report 272 organizations giving $34,816,509 in grants to PROJECT ANGEL FOOD, 166 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT ANGEL FOOD?
- CHUCK LORRE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,161,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT ANGEL FOOD 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 272 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