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Stater Bros Charities

Stater Bros Charities (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,263,984 to it, the largest being The Jack H Brown Family Foundation ($1,155,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$6.1M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$5.9M
6/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Stater Bros Charities does

Mission

To provide philanthropic support to approved non-profit organizations in communities served by Stater Bros. Markets.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The purpose of Stater Bros. Charities is to provide philanthropic support to approved non-profit organizations in communities served by Stater Bros. Markets. The work of Stater Bros. Charities is accomplished through grant-making, mobilization of community leaders, employees, volunteers and other funders to help the communities they live and work in.

    $4,859,442 spentof which $4,859,442 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,859,442.

02The 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 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.6M) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2018 Revenue 95 ($3.1M) Expenses 107 ($3.9M) Net assets 67 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 105 ($3.4M) Expenses 113 ($4.1M) Net assets 39 ($942k)2020 Revenue 109 ($3.6M) Expenses 72 ($2.6M) Net assets 78 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 127 ($4.2M) Expenses 66 ($2.4M) Net assets 151 ($3.7M)2022 Revenue 179 ($5.9M) Expenses 88 ($3.2M) Net assets 262 ($6.3M)2023 Revenue 130 ($4.3M) Expenses 145 ($5.3M) Net assets 220 ($5.3M)2024 Revenue 188 ($6.1M) Expenses 172 ($6.3M) Net assets 243 ($5.9M)
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Revenue (188)Expenses (172)Net assets (243)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.1M to $6.8M (+66%).

$2.5M
$1.6M
$992k
$1.9M
$4.1M
$6.8M
$5.4M
$6.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

133% of Stater Bros Charities’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$372k
’17
−$801k
’18
−$677k
’19
$945k
’20
$1.8M
’21
$2.7M
’22
−$1.0M
’23
−$105k
’24
6.7
months of
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

Pete Van Helden

CEO

Board chair

Nancy Negrette

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed9131112991010
Joined·+6+0+1+0+0+4+0
No longer listed·2203030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $115k.

2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Stater Bros Charities’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

Stater Bros Charities leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

91%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 100% · 2019 90% · 2020 92% · 2021 85% · 2022 98% · 2023 87% — 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

40% of Stater Bros Charities's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

100% of Stater Bros Charities's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
NY
OR
CA
MO
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Stater Bros Charities holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve6.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Stater Bros Charities

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 3%Fundraising 6%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited 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

  • Stater Bros Markets · corp_trust

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Stater Bros Charities?
Stater Bros Charities (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,263,984 to it, the largest being The Jack H Brown Family Foundation ($1,155,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Stater Bros Charities have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,263,984 in grants to Stater Bros Charities, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Stater Bros Charities?
The Jack H Brown Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Stater Bros Charities 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 17 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