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SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC (California) receives grants from 256 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,354,121 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($7,658,758). 129 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$95M
Revenue FY2025
256
Funders on record
$31M
Grants received
$33M
Net assets
129/256 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Against its field

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC's funding base is broadening — from 37 funders to 75 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 170 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($53M) Expenses 100 ($54M) Net assets 100 ($16M)2018 Revenue 115 ($61M) Expenses 114 ($62M) Net assets 95 ($15M)2019 Revenue 117 ($62M) Expenses 117 ($63M) Net assets 90 ($14M)2020 Revenue 173 ($92M) Expenses 159 ($86M) Net assets 127 ($20M)2021 Revenue 221 ($117M) Expenses 199 ($108M) Net assets 189 ($30M)2022 Revenue 172 ($92M) Expenses 167 ($90M) Net assets 199 ($32M)2023 Revenue 169 ($90M) Expenses 163 ($88M) Net assets 211 ($34M)2024 Revenue 166 ($88M) Expenses 163 ($88M) Net assets 219 ($35M)2025 Revenue 179 ($95M) Expenses 181 ($98M) Net assets 209 ($33M)
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Revenue (179)Expenses (181)Net assets (209)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

92% of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 270 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$805k
17
$748k
18
$918k
19
$6.0M
20
$9.8M
21
$1.7M
22
$1.9M
23
$202k
24
$2.6M
25
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 75 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $4.0M.

33 of 256 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)37% 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: $50k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC raised.

From the IRS filings of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 256 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

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

76% 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC.

24%
largest funder
37%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 16% · 2019 21% · 2020 22% · 2021 34% · 2022 21% · 2023 41%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

33% of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 33 states in all.

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OH
PA
NJ
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RI
CA
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CO
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HI
AL
GA
TX

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. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 256 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $593k on record.

Federal$593k
grants $593kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$593k

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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 4%Fundraising 2%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Council of Orange County Society of St Vincent de Paul · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC?
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC (California) receives grants from 256 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,354,121 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($7,658,758). 129 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 256 organizations giving $31,354,121 in grants to SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC, 129 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC?
Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $7,658,758 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY 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.

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 256funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing