Texas · Nonprofit
SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER
SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,748,631 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($1,548,748). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Sustainable Food Center does
Mission
Sfc transforms the food system to nourish our health, land and livelihood.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Farm Viability has undergone a reimagination in FY25 and although not cancelled has a bit of new focus beginning in FY26.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Food Access & Education: The Food Access & Education program advances our goal of serving low-income and at-risk communities by increasing access to fresh fruits and vegetables and educating families on ways to establish lifelong healthy diets. Our services provided are: Double Up Food Bucks (DUFB) incentives for SNAP and WIC clients to purchase fresh produce, The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre cooking/nutrition education classes aim to reduce barriers for families to address their long-term food security in a healthy, culturally appropriate and affordable way.
$5,427,694 spent$28,062 earned by the program94% of program spendingPolicy & Advocacy: The food system strategy and policy program supports our work with both producers and consumers, formalizing our advocacy work that champions healthy food incentives and regenerative agriculture.
$253,534 spent4% of program spendingFarmers market and value chain viability: The program helps farmers and ranchers with operational and business planning to improve access to markets. We have two weekly farmers' markets and a vibrant supply chain initiative that matches our network of producers with a growing cohort of wholesale buyers.
$67,839 spent$221,009 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,749,067.
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.
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 $3.9M to $5.3M (+36%).
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 21% · 2018 17% · 2019 14% · 2021 28% · 2022 36% · 2023 43% · 2024 43% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Mark Bethell
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell $909k → $681k.
11 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
63% 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 SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 88% · 2019 16% · 2020 42% · 2021 29% · 2022 48% · 2023 29% — 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
20% of SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER'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
73% of SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $758k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Government funding SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$11.6M
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 SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: 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 SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER?
- SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,748,631 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($1,548,748). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $7,748,631 in grants to SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER?
- ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,548,748 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 82 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