Our Response To COVID-19

Over a year and a half ago, regional shelter-in-place orders went into effect. As an essential business, the Food Bank of El Dorado County immediately leapt into action to safely and efficiently serve its neighbors in need. The need for our services has only grown and the way we operate has changed in new andexciting ways.

We have experienced some disruption in food donations from our regular food industry donors and are supplementing donated food with food purchases of specific items. The Coronavirus crisis has resulted in unplanned expenses for the Food Bank. Please consider donating here.

Anyone associated with the Food Bank’s activity, including volunteers, clients and staff members are encouraged to follow the health recommendations from federal, state, and local officials. If you are a family or individual in need of food assistance, call 530-621-9950 or find a partner agency serving food here.

Mission

The Food Bank of El Dorado County’s mission is to provide comprehensive services in collaboration with other hunger response agencies that will help transform the lives of people in need by:

• Providing nutritious food.
• Advocating for and participating in various programs, which will promote self sufficiency.
• Raising awareness and educating the general public on local hunger, its causes and consequences.
• Acting as an advocate for a population that sometimes have few officials to speak for their needs.

Accountability and Transparency

Founder Compensation

• Mike Sproull – Founder $85,000.00 yearly

Board of Directors

• Chairman – John Blank
• Vice Chairman – Sue Cook
• Secretary – Darrel Balderson
• Treasurer – Geno Mellomida
• Director – Art Patterson

Key Staff

• Founder – Mike Sproull
• General Manager – Jenna Sproull
• Office Manager – Kim McPherson
• Operations Lead – David Morla

Government Reporting

Please download our IRS Form 990 Report (Organization Exempt From Income Tax).

Privacy 

Please read our privacy policy.

About The Food Bank of El Dorado County

One might ask, who is The Food Bank of El Dorado County and where did they come from?

In 1999 a local grassroots organization called The El Dorado Food Coalition—comprised of a handful of faith-based organizations—worked to provide food assistance in El Dorado County. Although this group worked hard they struggled with infrastructure, cold and dry storage, trucks, and all the necessities it takes to service a rural county like El Dorado. As needs grew the Coalition’s goal quickly became establishing a full-service food bank, as El Dorado County was one of the few California counties that had no food bank. With the help of a few key organizations and the assistance of the community The Food Bank of El Dorado County was established in August of 2000.

Starting off small, The Food Bank supporters put their nose to the grindstone, and from a humble beginning this charity has become the largest collaborative charity in El Dorado County. The Food Bank provides food assistance through multiple programs including the Emergency Food Assistance Network which consists of multiple agencies that make up the safety net for El Dorado County’s at-risk population.

In an average year this collaborative partnership procures and distributes over 3 million dollars of emergency food assistance to communities through the county.

Congratulations, El Dorado Food Coalition—The Food Bank of El Dorado County has become a gold nugget for our neighbors who struggle to make ends meet.

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Celebrating our 20th Anniversary

For over 20 years, on a monthly basis, the Food Bank of El Dorado County’s Emergency Food Assistance Network collaboratively serves thousands of at-risk.

At the same time the Food Bank has been feeding the hungry, the Board of Directors and Food Bank staff have been working on infrastructure for the future. A new distribution facility was built in 2013 that acts as the hub to this network that serves El Dorado County as a whole. The building, cold and dry storage, and refrigerated trucks are the exact necessities that the El Dorado Food Coalition dreamed about in the 1990’s.

If you want to talk about one fact that simply says it all- drum roll please- over the last 20 years the Food Bank of El Dorado County has solicited, procured, warehoused, and distributed over 50 million dollars’ worth of food right here in our own backyards.

Read our 20th anniversary letter »

The Food Bank of El Dorado County recognized as becoming the largest collaborative charity in the county

The Board of Supervisors of the County of El Dorado recognizes The Food Bank of El Dorado County for becoming the largest collaborative charity in the county, and providing food assistance to those in need. The proclamation was passed by the Board of Supervisors of the County of El Dorado at a regular meeting on February 9, 2021.

Read the proclamation »