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HEART OF COMPASSION DISTRIBUTION

EIN 42-1573926 MONTEBELLO, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2024
$32,230,328
Expenses 2024
$31,631,655

Program services were 99.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K30
Classification
1000
Street
600 S MAPLE AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

FOOD DISTRIBUTION AND A COMMITMENT TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE TOTAL PERSON

  • HEART OF COMPASSION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS PRIMARILY AS A FOOD DISTRIBUTION CENTER. THE ORGANIZATION COLLECTED, PACKAGED, AND DISTRIBUTED MORE THAN 15 MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD AND MORE THAN 685,000 POUNDS OF PERSONAL GOODS TO PEOPLE IN NEED IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH A NETWORK OF 85 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING PARTNERSHIPS AND PROGRAMS. WEEKLY EVENTS WERE HELD ON SITE AND THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

    Expenses $31,162,582

  • HEART OF COMPASSION DISTRIBUTION OPERATES A MENS REHABILITATION AND RECOVERY HOME. MEN WHO ARE EXPERIENCING HARD TIMES, COMING OUT OF GANGS, DRUGS, PRISON OR OTHER DIFFICULTIES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TURN THEIR LIVES AROUND AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE COMMUNITY BY VOLUNTARILY ENROLLING IN A ONE-YEAR PROGRAM THAT OFFERS DRUG AND ALCOHOL REHABILITATION AND JOB AND LIFE SKILLS TRAINING. ALL PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUIRED TO UNDERGO ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES AND DRUG COUNSELING TO MINIMIZE THE CHANCE OF RECIDIVISM. MEN ARE REQUIRED TO PUT IN 40-45 HOURS PER WEEK OF COMMUNITY SERVICE AT OUR DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSE AS PART OF THE PROGRAM. OUR MEN RECEIVE WAREHOUSE LOGISTICS TRAINING, INCLUDING HOW TO USE FORKLIFTS, PALLET JACKS, LOADING AND UNLOADING TRUCKS, AND SOME RECEIVE BOBTAIL TRUCK DRIVING TRAINING. THE PROGRAM ENDEAVORS TO GIVE MEN THE PROPER JOB AND LIFE SKILLS NECESSARY TO SUCCEED IN SOCIETY, ALONG WITH PROVIDING COPING SKILLS TO PREVENT TRIGGERS. THE COMMUNITY SERVICE REQUIREMENT INCREASES THE SELF-ESTEEM OF THE MEN IN THE PROGRAM BY ALLOWING THEM TO HELP PROVIDE FOOD AND OTHER ESSENTIAL GOODS TO LOW-INCOME FAMILIES. SEEING THE POSITIVE EFFECT OF THEIR WORK AND WHAT IT DOES FOR LOCAL FAMILIES BUILDS THE MENS CONFIDENCE AND SENSE OF WORTH. ON AVERAGE, THERE ARE ABOUT SEVEN MEN ENROLLED IN THE MENS HOME AT ANY GIVEN TIME. WE HAVE HAD MANY SUCCESS STORIES IN THE MENS HOME: ONE MAN GRAUDATED THIS YEAR, FIVE RECEIVED THEIR FORKLIFT CERTIFICATION, AND SIX MEN RECEIVED THEIR CPR CERTIFICATION. SOME PREVIOUS GRAUDATES STILL RETURN TO HEART OF COMPASSION DISTRIBUTION TO HELP VOLUNTEER FOR SPECIAL EVENTS.

    Expenses $318,037

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Melissa Garcia

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $20,720
    From this org
    $20,720
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Eric Tietze

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Kimberly Cobos-Cawthorne

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • John Davis

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Robert Leathers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Rebecca Leathers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Milton Mier

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $32,230,328
    Expenses
    $31,631,655
    Contributions
    $32,207,826
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $15,339,624
    Expenses
    $14,809,602
    Contributions
    $15,324,218
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $29,827,850
    Expenses
    $29,181,916
    Contributions
    $29,811,824
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $28,446,724
    Expenses
    $27,820,269
    Contributions
    $28,431,247
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $28,645,199
    Expenses
    $27,829,905
    Contributions
    $28,629,723
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,300,651
    Expenses
    $26,202,730
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,759,634

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $38,900,746
    Expenses
    $38,772,676
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,658,055

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $41,165,475
    Expenses
    $40,907,607
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,795,358

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $31,565,911
    Expenses
    $31,196,552
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,526,741

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $25,710,620
    Expenses
    $25,403,965
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,163,864

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $24,900,117
    Expenses
    $25,013,200
    Assets (EOY)
    $862,977

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,108,947
    Expenses
    $26,371,948
    Assets (EOY)
    $956,405

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $35,211,744
    Expenses
    $35,124,708
    Assets (EOY)
    $919,407

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $36,054,610
    Expenses
    $34,789,283
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,346,111

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.