California · Nonprofit
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK (California) receives grants from 318 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,327,606 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,802,070). 167 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $67M
- Funders on record
- 318
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $53M
What Redwood Empire Food Bank does
Mission
Feeding our neighbors in need and leading the community to end hunger. A safety net securing and distributing food to individuals and families through more than 300 monthly distribution sites and 130 hunger-relief partners in sonoma county and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Redwood Empire Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief organizationserving northern california. The organization provides food andnourishment through innovative hunger-relief programs, serving over142,000 children, families, and seniors in sonoma, lake, mendocino,humboldt, and del norte counties. With over 300 direct servicedistributions and 130 partnerships with other hunger-relieforganizations, all residents facing food insecurity have access to morethan 300 weekly and monthly distribution sites across the fivecounties. In addition, the organization offers calfresh applicationassistance, emergency food boxes, and other food assistance supportthrough their food connections resource center.
$63,854,542 spent$1,332,325 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $63,854,542.
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 2019 to 2020, from $28M to $41M (+47%).
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 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 7% · 2023 13% · 2024 7% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Allison Goodwin
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 81 funders to 103 funders, grant income rose $2.6M → $4.6M.
44 of 318 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 318 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
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
64% 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 REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 17% · 2019 18% · 2020 11% · 2021 28% · 2022 14% · 2023 12% — 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.
How long its funders stay
37% of REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
60% of REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK has grown faster than half of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: 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 REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK?
- REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK (California) receives grants from 318 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,327,606 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,802,070). 167 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 318 organizations giving $36,327,606 in grants to REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK, 167 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $4,802,070 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REDWOOD EMPIRE 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.
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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 318 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