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TAHOE FOOD HUB

TAHOE FOOD HUB (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $727,329 to it, the largest being KELSON FOUNDATION ($185,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$727k
Net assets
$83k
13/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Tahoe Food Hub does

Mission

Our mission is to provide a local food system that supports regenerative and sustainable farming practices by increasing access to local food for north lake tahoe. By addressing local food access challenges at a systems level, we create a hub for local food. A local food system benefits diversified, family farms looking for fair market opportunities while increasing access to local food for our mountain community. Our goal is to create a more just and sovereign food system. One that is fair for the soil, farmer and our community. Regenerative farming practices allow farmers to sequester carbon into the soil, mitigating climate change. These practices create soils that are drought tolerant and yield crops with higher nutrient levels than conventional farming.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The farm to market program (f2m) promotes the sourcing and consumption of regionally-produced and sustainably grown foods. The program represents small-scale producers within 100-miles of north lake tahoe to ensure they get a fair price and to share their story with the end consumer. A regional marketplace increases the distribution outlets for small producers and literally creates a "hub" for farms and markets to sell and buy local food. It brings this good food into the places where people are most often eating and buying food like restaurants, grocery stores, schools, and hospitals.

    $1,251,388 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,251,388.

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 ($697k) Expenses 100 ($700k) Net assets 100 ($78k)2018 Revenue 110 ($769k) Expenses 106 ($739k) Net assets 138 ($108k)2019 Revenue 120 ($836k) Expenses 121 ($849k) Net assets 122 ($95k)2020 Revenue 249 ($1.7M) Expenses 225 ($1.6M) Net assets 325 ($253k)2021 Revenue 251 ($1.8M) Expenses 241 ($1.7M) Net assets 407 ($317k)2022 Revenue 203 ($1.4M) Expenses 221 ($1.5M) Net assets 239 ($186k)2023 Revenue 191 ($1.3M) Expenses 195 ($1.4M) Net assets 193 ($150k)2024 Revenue 185 ($1.3M) Expenses 193 ($1.4M) Net assets 107 ($83k)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (193)Net assets (107)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 2019 to 2020, from $95k to $283k (+199%).

$78k
$108k
$95k
$283k
$317k
$186k
$150k
$83k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

9% of TAHOE FOOD HUB’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,200 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.

−$3k
’17
$30k
’18
−$13k
’19
$158k
’20
$64k
’21
−$130k
’22
−$36k
’23
−$67k
’24
0.7
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.

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Listed76669889
Joined·+2+1+1+4+0+0+4
No longer listed·3111103
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $21k → $141k.

9 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 TAHOE FOOD HUB’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

TAHOE FOOD HUB has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

50% 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 TAHOE FOOD HUB.

25%
largest funder
55%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 45% · 2019 53% · 2020 47% · 2021 39% · 2022 33% · 2023 35% — 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

40% of TAHOE FOOD HUB's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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

78% of TAHOE FOOD HUB's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
MA
NV
OH
CA
DE
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $328k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

TAHOE FOOD HUB's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding TAHOE FOOD HUB receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $249k on record.

Federal$249k
grants $249kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$249k

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 TAHOE FOOD HUB

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TAHOE FOOD HUB: 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 TAHOE FOOD HUB?
TAHOE FOOD HUB (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $727,329 to it, the largest being KELSON FOUNDATION ($185,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TAHOE FOOD HUB have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $727,329 in grants to TAHOE FOOD HUB, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TAHOE FOOD HUB?
KELSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TAHOE FOOD HUB 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.

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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 28 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