California · Nonprofit
SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET
SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,679 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($11,910). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,430 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,430 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Star One Credit Unionshared funderslocal
- Food for Familiesportfolio match
- Calfoods Logisticsportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $5k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 92% · 2022 50% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
78% of SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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.
- Star One Credit Unionshared funderslocalCA · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · funds 52 organizations near you
- Food for Familiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calfoods Logisticsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 99 organizations near you
- Coastal Harvestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- One Percent to End Hunger Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Association of Food Banksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sumner Community Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding San Diegoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Means Database Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Finders Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Balay Ko Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET?
- SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,679 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($11,910). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $29,679 in grants to SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH PALO ALTO FOOD CLOSET 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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