Inland Harvest
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Inland Harvest's exempt purpose is to recover and distribute healthy food that improves the quality of life of our local food-insecure community. The food is donated. There is no cost to Inland Harvest and no goods or services change hands for the rescued food. The recipient feeding programs that receive the food do not pay for or purchase the food. This food contributes to improved health and quality of life for recipients that receive this food at absolutely no cost. There are no restrictions as to who receives the food - based on race, gender, sex, religious affiliation, and no paperwork or barriers or requirements for our non-english speacking, food insecure, poor and computer inaccessible population. Inland Harvest distributes to established food pantry and feeding program . The food is distributed to the food insecure population in our local community including Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.The feeding programs then distribute to end user households.
- Income
- $90,510
- Spending
- $75,585
- Reserves
- 7 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 100%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Strong: 90 out of 100. Higher than 75% of charities in its peer group (human services, under $250k).
Reserves
28 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 7.0 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 0% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 16% of income.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $55,179 spent. Accomplishment One: This part of our program is fully supported by a grant for $49,000. All monies from this grant go toward the cost of freighting semi truckloads of fresh produce to our distribution site every week of the year. Feeding program recipients come and pick up the produce. The total weight of produce is typically 75,000 - 80,000 pounds of produce each week. Our volunteers forklift and hand load all this food into the recipient feeding program's vehicles. The receiving organizations are well-vetted established organizations that hand out the produce to the end user households. We serve 85 feeding recipient organizations and our estimate is they distribute to about 10,000+ household end users weekly. A household can be 1 senior citizen or as large as a family of 8. Our population would never be able to afford fresh fruits and vegetables to improve their health and well being. Our community is low socio-economically. It has vast cultural diversity, ethnic diversity, many non-english speaking groups, religious diversity, food-insecure and medically at-risk persons. Our produce includes a wide diversity of types and meets the needs of many of these culturally diverse populations. Many do not have means or transportation to go outside of their local neighborhoods so the food must be transported to them by the 85 feeding organizations we distribute to. There are nominal costs of safety equipment, water, beverages, snacks, give out bags, trash bags, etc that add to the trucking costs and meet or exceed this total grant allocation. I will add the $6,179 for the rest of the distribution expenses.
- $15,750 spent. Accomplishment Two. Our second grant of $10,000 helps support the cost of freighting in fresh local bread and healthy bread products. Chips, sweets and the like are easy to procure but we do not provide any processed or "junk" food. Our bread and bread products are fresh and healthy. This aids in our goal to improve health and the quality of life of our recipients through healthy diets. The same 10,000 households as receive produce (Program Service Accomplishment One) have access to bread as well. Inland Harvest freights in 10,500 pounds of bread products each week of the entire year. The cost of trucking has risen for us from $10,000 to $15,750 in 2025. We provide bread at a loss to our organization.However our bread program fulfils our donor's requirement to comply with SB1383 in the State of California keeping organic waste out of landfills.
- $4,656 spent. Accomplishment Three: Our program provides opportunities for volunteers to contribute and receive community service hours. Volunteers are sourced from colleges, schools, church programs, alcohol and drug recovery homes, retired and private citizens, and various corporate and businesses in the area. We do not put a value or track expenses for our volunteers. We have a grant to support the costs for water, beverages, snacks, safety equipment, etc for these volunteers. We use donations from individuals and small donors to cover some of these costs.We have a minimum of 60 volunteers staffing the distribution every thursday. Our goal is to instill a tradition of community service and volunteerism into our community. We do treat our volunteers to coffee, food, water, headlamps, rain ponchos, tools and equipment (gloves,etc) which we provide to total $4,656 last year 2025
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since June 1995.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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