Second Harvest Food Bank
Irvine, CA · EIN 32-0362611. Reported 74 grants totalling $1,253,567 to 51 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Second Harvest Food Bank, the IRS classifies it under food & nutrition rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE K31) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 35% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $19,693; the smallest was $5,783 and the largest $85,940. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
39 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $417,802 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pathways of Hope | Fullerton, CA | $145,991 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Laguna Food Pantry | Laguna Beach, CA | $134,307 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vital Access Care Foundation | Fountain Vly, CA | $110,700 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Southbend United Methodist Church | Gainesville, GA | $75,678 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dwelling Place Anaheim | Anaheim, CA | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc | Irvine, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Associated Students Inc California State University Fullerton | Fullerton, CA | $49,920 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Washington, DC | $46,635 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| G R a C E Social and Medical Services | Anaheim, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Francisco Solano Food Pantry | Rsm, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Families Forward | Irvine, CA | $32,784 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Helping Others Prepare for Eternity | Garden Grove, CA | $29,693 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Gg | Garden Grove, CA | $26,523 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Latino Center for Prevention & Action in Health & Welfare | Santa Ana, CA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Western Ave Church of Christ | Anaheim, CA | $23,498 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Council of Orange County Society of St Vincent De Paul | Irvine, CA | $20,817 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| El Sol Science & Arts Academy of Santa Ana | Santa Ana, CA | $17,842 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Outreach Alliance | San Clemente, CA | $16,484 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charismatic Episcopal Church of North America | San Clemente, CA | $16,200 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Recovery Road Inc | Anaheim, CA | $15,931 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Newsong Community Church of Orange County | Santa Ana, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Orange County First Assembly of God | Santa Ana, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Orangewood Foundation | Santa Ana, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Men With Vision Foundation | Westminster, CA | $13,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rose Drive Friends Church | Yorba Linda, CA | $13,284 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Vista Community Clinic | Vista, CA | $12,205 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Evangelical Free Church | Fullerton, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Orange County Rescue Mission Inc | Tustin, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Delhi Center | Santa Ana, CA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sabil USA | Irvine, CA | $8,101 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church | Irwindale, CA | $8,057 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America | New York, NY | $8,057 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Orange Coast College Foundation | Costa Mesa, CA | $7,784 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Elementary Parent Teacher Organization-PTO | Orange, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Civic Center Barrio Housing Corp | Santa Ana, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Edison Elementary | Santa Ana, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friendly Center Inc | Orange, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Guin Foss Elementary | Santa Ana, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Livingstone Community Development Corporation | Stanton, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mariners Church | Irvine, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Miracles for Kids Inc | Irvine, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Newport Church Inc | Irvine, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Roque Center Inc | Stanton, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Giving Children Hope | Buena Park, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hunger Free America Inc | New York, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tustin Family & Youth Center | Tustin, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Icna Relief USA Programs Inc | New Hyde Park, NY | $6,101 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Tustin | Tustin, CA | $5,991 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| First Presbyterian Church of Orange | Garden Grove, CA | $5,817 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Crossline Community Church | Laguna Hills, CA | $5,784 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | West Nyack, NY | $5,783 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
14 of 51 (27%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Laguna Food Pantry
STAFF EXPENSES & COLD STORAGE - Anaheim United Methodist Church - Neighbors Pantry
STAFF EXPENSE AND COLD STORAGE - Salvation Army of Santa Ana Temple
COLD STORAGE & SERVICE AWARD - Catholic Charities of Orange County
STAFF EXPENSE AND TRUCK MAINTENANCE AND FEES - Mercado El Sol
COLD STORAGE & CAPACITY GRANT - Community Outreach Alliance
COLD STORAGE & SERVICE AWARDS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 27 of 51 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | $50,000 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 2 | $50,000 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 11 | $302,190 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 32 | $454,032 | $8,400 |
| 2024 | 24 | $397,345 | $12,176 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
88% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Second Harvest Food Bank's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 24 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 8014 Marine Way, Irvine, CA, 92618.
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