California · Nonprofit
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY (California) receives grants from 525 organizations whose IRS filings report $351,489,076 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($57,739,504). 310 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $310M
- Funders on record
- 525
- Grants received
- $351M
- Net assets
- $297M
What Second Harvest of Silicon Valley does
Mission
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. We will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley (also known as "second harvest") is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization established in 1974 and incorporated in 1979. Second harvest is one of the largest food banks in the nation and a trusted nonprofit leader in ending local hunger. In silicon valley, one of the wealthiest regions in the country, food insecurity is higher than the national average. One in six neighbors relies on second harvest for nutritious food, half of whom are kids and seniors. Inflation and the high cost of housing disproportionately impact neighbors living on fixed incomes or earning lower wages in jobs that keep the community running (such as grocery clerks, bus drivers, teaching assistants and service workers). (continued on schedule o)
$246,001,907 spentof which $190,926,061 as grants$69,339 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $246,001,907.
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 2024 to 2025, from $253M to $321M (+27%).
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 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 9% · 2020 11% · 2021 25% · 2022 8% · 2023 8% · 2024 9% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Leslie Bacho
CEO
Board chair
Maria Poveromo
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 52 funders to 229 funders, grant income rose $7.5M → $71M.
68 of 525 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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: $57k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Second Harvest of Silicon Valley). These are real filings, and they are not money SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY raised.
From the IRS filings of SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 525 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 OF SILICON VALLEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 OF SILICON VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 26% · 2019 31% · 2020 17% · 2021 23% · 2022 16% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“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
42% of SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
67% of SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY'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 $115M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $236M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 31 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 31 food & nutrition nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY?
- SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY (California) receives grants from 525 organizations whose IRS filings report $351,489,076 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($57,739,504). 310 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 525 organizations giving $351,489,076 in grants to SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY, 310 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $57,739,504 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY 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 525 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