California · Nonprofit
SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION
SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,110,651 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS ($5,237,400). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $304k
What San Diego Hunger Coalition does
Mission
San Diego Hunger Coalition works collaboratively with community partners to create equitable access to food assistance through research, education, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Calfresh: program focused efforts on expanding access to calfresh through two main objectives: 1. Calfresh outreach (cfo) contract: supporting a robust network of community based calfresh application assistors. Calfresh program, helped an additional 6536 household apply for benefits and 1930 households keep calfresh benefits, providing an additional 6.5m meals per year while passing through $943,902 to local nonprofit organizations. Calfresh program trained 401 assisters through 16 trainings and with 103 unique organizations. Program also hosted 4 calfresh task force meetings from 50 unique organizations with an emphasis on priorities such as dispelling public charge misconceptions, language equity, failure to provide to reduce application denials, and integrated our school partners for the calfresh in schools campaign. Program also continued speciality trainings focused on providing application assistance to special populations of college students, older adults/ssi recipients, children under 18/sunbucks & disaster calfresh. Provided support and technical assistance with calfresh applications for cbo partners with 48 individual calfresh cases, with 100% of the cases comprising of…
$1,346,280 spent91% of program spendingHunger free san diego advisory board & research: program continued to lead a multi-year, cross-sector initiative to end hunger in san diego county using a community-driven, data-informed, collaborative approach.guided by an advisory board of more than 30 leaders representing all aspects of hunger relief in san diego county, hunger free san diego is a cross-sector, collaborative initiative launched in 2016 to apply a data-informed and community-driven approach to ending hunger in our region. Advisory board member organizations (and other hunger relief partners) provide comprehensive data reports to the hunger coalition on the amount of food assistance they provide each month. The hunger coalition aggregates this data provides analysis and additional research on nutrition insecurity and produces maps and data tables with the following estimates down to zip code level each month: number of nutrition insecure individuals; percentage of the population of each zip code that is nutrition insecure; number of food assistance meals provided; the calfresh (snap) participation rate; the number of potential calfresh (snap) enrollees in each zip code; and the meal gap, which is the number of…
$132,123 spent9% of program spendingPolicy advocacy: program increased access to nutrition through policy changes at the local, state, and federal level. The San Diego Hunger Coalition stood with the nearly one million san diegans experiencing nutrition insecurity and the more than 500 nonprofit organizations and worked to connect people to food by: elevating the experiences of people struggling to access healthy, affordable food. Engaged and acted as a resource for policymakers by providing research, policy analyses, and case studies of whats happening in san diego county. Coordinated local actions, including meetings with policymakers, call-in days, and letter campaigns to support local, state, and federal legislation. 12 digital communications were shared with nearly 300 hunger free activists. Through this platform, sdhc serve as a backbone agency that collates important legislative information, facilitates engagement with elected offices, and organizes strategic advocacy campaigns; however, these efforts now serve and support a broader coalition of activists and community residents looking to take action. In 2024, through hosting of a legislative forum for stakeholders and elected official staff, San Diego…
$3,303 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,481,706.
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 $567k to $995k (+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: 2020 33% · 2021 58% · 2022 62% · 2023 69% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION’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. 5 of the last 8 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
Alondra Gonzalez
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $286k → $2.5M.
9 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 17% · 2019 22% · 2020 46% · 2021 45% · 2022 56% · 2023 86% — 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
25% of SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
93% of SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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.
Against its field
SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION
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 SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION: 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 SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION?
- SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,110,651 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS ($5,237,400). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $9,110,651 in grants to SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION?
- CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS is the largest funder on record, with $5,237,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION 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 45 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