California · Nonprofit
The Community Food Connection
The Community Food Connection (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,361 to it, the largest being FEEDING SAN DIEGO ($94,261). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $154k
- Net assets
- $167k
What The Community Food Connection does
Mission
The Community Food Connection is a food pantry/bank. It has 200+ volunteers that help with the distribution process. Volunteer drivers use their vehicles to collect donated food from 40 grocery stores in the area. This arrangement is set up thru Feeding San Diego. The food is then sorted and repackaged into boxes for distribution to the families that are food insecure in the community. The Organization is open for food distribution on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 3 to 6 pm for food distribution. The Community Food Connection also distributes food for the Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP) which is a program thru the Jacob Cushman San Diego Food Bank. The food bank supplies the food for this particular program. People qualify based on income criteria and are allowed one distribution per month. The Community Food Connection supplements these families with food distribution.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We are a food pantry who provides food to over 1,000 families/week. This includes nonperishables, produce, meat, prepacked meals, frozen meals, dried goods, dairy. We partner with the SD Food Banks and Feeding San Diego.
$76,087 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,087.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $118k to $214k (+81%).
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.
100% of The Community Food Connection’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Bill Rearick
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $7k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 The Community Food Connection’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
The Community Food Connection leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 The Community Food Connection.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 99% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of The Community Food Connection's grant income 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.
Against its field
The Community Food Connection runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Community Food Connection
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.
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Community Food Connection?
- The Community Food Connection (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,361 to it, the largest being FEEDING SAN DIEGO ($94,261). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Community Food Connection have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $154,361 in grants to The Community Food Connection, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Community Food Connection?
- FEEDING SAN DIEGO is the largest funder on record, with $94,261 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Community Food Connection 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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