California Association of Food Banks

Name

California Association of Food Banks

Legal name

California Association of Food Banks

Website

https://cafoodbanks.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hunger Relief and Food Bank Network Services

NAICS

Community Food Services (62421), Community Food Services (624210)

akta.pro primary industry

Food Assistance & Food Banks (BPAGAEAA)

Keywords

• Food bank network
• Hunger relief services
• Food assistance programs
• CalFresh outreach
• Farm to family

Headquarters

HQ city

Oakland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: CAFB generates revenue through individual donations (one-time and monthly), corporate partnerships, foundation grants, and government allocations. The organization receives state funding such as CalFood allocations (e.g., $108 million in the 2026-27 budget) and federal grants for food distribution programs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

California Association of Food Banks (CAFB) is a nonprofit membership organization that coordinates a statewide network of 43 member food banks and nearly 6,000 community-based organizations to deliver emergency food assistance and anti-hunger programs across California. Its services include the Farm to Family produce program, CalFresh (SNAP) enrollment outreach, SUN Bucks summer food assistance, and crisis/disaster response coordination, collectively serving approximately 6 million people per month.

Product overview

California Association of Food Banks operates as a collective network of 43 member food banks supporting nearly 6,000 community-based organizations. The organization provides emergency food assistance and hunger relief programs including the Farm to Family program (which secured and delivered over 300 million pounds of produce in recent years), CalFresh Outreach helping nearly 30,000 households annually, SUN Bucks summer food assistance for children, and Crisis & Disaster Response coordination. Supplementary programs include the Food ACCESS Speaker Series, Hunger Data & Research dashboards, and Hunger Legislation Tracker for policy advocacy. The network serves over 6 million people monthly and advocates for pro-food bank policies at state and federal levels.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Farm to Family: Program that secures excess produce from California's fields and delivers it to food banks throughout the state, delivering over 300 million pounds of food annually
• SUN Bucks
• CalFresh Outreach
• CalFood

Products and services

• Food Bank Network A coordinated network of 43 California food banks and nearly 6,000 community-based organizations that collectively source, fund, and distribute food to food-insecure Californians, distributing nearly 900 million pounds of food annually.
• Farm to Family Program Program that secures excess produce and shelf-stable foods from California farms and delivers them to food banks statewide and nationally, providing more than 300 million pounds of food annually.
• CalFresh Outreach Program helping low-income households apply for and stay enrolled in CalFresh (California's SNAP program), partnering with 50+ outreach organizations and helping nearly 30,000 households annually.
• SUN Bucks Summer EBT food assistance program providing $120 per eligible child to purchase groceries during summer months, administered with CAFB outreach support.
• Crisis and Disaster Response Coordinates emergency food distribution during natural or human-made disasters, working with affected food banks to secure and deliver food, coordinate response efforts, and implement Disaster CalFresh benefits.

Quantifiable outcome

• Nearly 900 million pounds of food delivered by California food banks in 2023, serving 6 million people per month
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• Cache ProducemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026Cache Produce received the Gary Maxworthy Farm to Family Champion Award for its Lodi-based mixing center that enabled 25 food banks to receive 4.9 million pounds of fresh produce in 2025, an 88% increase from 2024.
• California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026CDFA, led by Secretary Karen Ross, was recognized with the 2026 Administrator Champion Award for steadfast commitment to food banks and advocacy expanding access to fresh food, including Emergency Food Boxes and the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program.
• California Health and Human Services (CalHHS)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026CalHHS Secretary Kim Johnson was recognized with the 2026 Administrator Champion Award for her leadership during the October 2025 federal government shutdown and CalFresh benefits delay, helping ensure Californians received critical food assistance.
• Assemblymember Corey JacksonminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026Received the 2026 Legislative Champion Award for leadership as chair of Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Human Services and strong support for food banks and anti-hunger legislation.
• Senator Jerry McNerneyminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026Received the 2026 Legislative Champion Award for authoring SB 881 (Farmer to Family Tax Credit extension) and SB 225 (state reimbursement for guardian meals through summer meal program).
• Banco Regional de Alimentos de Los Ángeles (Los Angeles Regional Food Bank)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 November 2025Received a Gilead Foundation Healing Hunger grant through CAFB to support a year-round mobile pantry program delivering 2.5 million pounds of food to communities across Los Angeles County.
• PG&EcoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 4 November 2025PG&E is the presenting sponsor of the Food ACCESS Speaker Series, a biennial series of quarterly virtual events discussing root causes of hunger and equitable food access in California.
• Feeding AmericacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 July 2025CAFB works with Feeding America as part of the national charitable food network. The Farm to Family program delivers food not only to California food banks but food banks across the country through this network.
• Albertsons Companies, Food4Less, Ralphs, WalmartmajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2025Participating retail chains that supported the RiceSelect Jars of Hope campaign, allowing customers to donate rice jars at store locations to benefit CAFB and member food banks.
• San Francisco-Marin Food BankcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 July 2024The Farm to Family program was founded at San Francisco-Marin Food Bank by Gary Maxworthy in the late 1990s and transitioned to CAFB in 2005 to expand statewide reach.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Feeding America: National umbrella network of 200+ food banks; CAFB coordinates with Feeding America to deliver Farm to Family produce beyond California and shares the large-network, association-style model that channels donated food to regional members.

Direct peers

• Houston Food Bank: One of the largest U.S. food banks by poundage distributed; comparable scale, statewide regional reach, and disaster-response role, making it a strong comparable for CAFB's network throughput.
• San Francisco-Marin Food Bank: California food bank and historic originator of the Farm to Family program (transitioned to CAFB in 2005); operates the same anti-hunger model and is a member of CAFB's 43-bank network.
• Capital Area Food Bank: Mid-Atlantic regional food bank that operates a similar mix of member-agency distribution, nutrition program outreach, and policy advocacy, providing a reasonable functional comparable to CAFB's statewide advocacy stack.
• Food Bank For New York City: Large metropolitan food bank with analogous food distribution and SNAP outreach programs; comparable in serving high urban food-insecurity populations and operating public-benefit enrollment programs similar to CalFresh outreach.
• Midwest Food Bank: Multi-state food bank operating with a lean, faith-rooted model and significant produce recovery; similar in emphasizing surplus-produce recovery at scale, paralleling CAFB's Farm to Family program.
• Greater Chicago Food Depository: Feeding America regional partner serving a major metro; comparable scale and member-network distribution model relevant to how CAFB coordinates its 43 California member banks.
• Second Harvest of Silicon Valley: One of CAFB's 43 member food banks and a peer California food bank; directly comparable mission, CalFresh outreach execution, and Silicon Valley corporate fundraising model.
• Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: Major California food bank that is a peer within CAFB's network, operating a 2.5M-lb mobile pantry program supported by Gilead Foundation Healing Hunger funding; directly comparable mission, scale, and donor ecosystem.

Emerging players

• God's Love We Deliver: Medically tailored meal nonprofit that overlaps with CAFB in serving food-insecure populations with chronic/serious illness; useful comparable around funding model and culturally tailored food access, though smaller in network scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CAFoodBanks
• Facebookfacebook.com/CaliforniaAssociationofFoodBanks
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cafoodbanks
• Instagraminstagram.com/cafoodbanks

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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Investments

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