Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204374795
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, United States
- Phone
- 1-858-527-1419
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $110,962,770
- Expenses
- $107,049,806
- Assets
- $124,335,465
- Liabilities
- $24,076,547
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CASEY CASTILLO (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CASEY CASTILLO (CEO): $457,611 total reported compensation
- KIMBERLEY LAYTON (CHIEF ADVANCEMENT & COMM. OFFICER): $239,407 total reported compensation
- COLE WILLIAMSON (VP OF ADMINISTRATION): $202,885 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide nutritious food to people in need, advocate for the hungry, and educate the public about hunger-related issues. You can help Mission Fed Credit Union support the Food Bank’s Food 4 Kids Backpack Program during San Diego Hunger Awareness Month! Throughout the month of September, visit any Mission Fed branch in San Diego County to donate to the San Diego Food Bank’s Food 4 Kids Backpack Program, which provides weekend packages of food to elementary students facing chronic hunger when school meals are unavailable. A donation of $8 supplies a child in need with nutritious food for the weekend, ensuring they...
What it reported doing in 2024
The member agency program (also known as the food to nonprofits program) relies on partnerships with hundreds of nonprofit agencies in the community that help the san diego food bank provide food assistance and support to hundreds of thousands of individuals and families who face food insecurity in the san diego region. In the fiscal year ended 6/30/25, the san diego food bank worked with more than 450 nonprofit partners that included food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, low-income daycare centers, after school programs, senior centers, and disability programs to distribute food and nonfood items to people in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 87% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 92.2% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $98.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $458K · 31 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $364K reported
- Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.