Move-Ins
The core work: furnishing a home for a family coming out of homelessness, foster care, domestic violence, or trafficking, transforming a house into a home with intentional design and care.
The Mission
Radical generosity, outrageous love.
Those are Riverbank's own words, printed around the edge of their logo. Every bag of this coffee pays into them.
The problem
An apartment with nothing in it is not a home.
The Riverbank Organization was founded in San Juan Capistrano in 2022 by Nadia Caporaso, who had been quietly matching donated furniture to families on her own for a couple of years before that. She started with a rented storage unit.
The problem is blunt: one in three people in California are living in poverty. Riverbank was founded to change that, on the conviction that loving our neighbors means ensuring everyone has access to the essentials.
What that looks like in practice is narrower and more physical than most nonprofit mission statements. Families exiting homelessness move into empty units. Survivors leaving trafficking need a bed and a lock and a kettle. A parent without a crib can lose a child to foster care over an equipment gap rather than anything they did.
“I have spent zero minutes trying to find people to help; they find me. I get up to 10 emails daily with requests for families in need.”
Nadia Caporaso, founder and executive director. The Capistrano Dispatch, May 9, 2025.
The warehouse
One building, and it changed the math.
Before March 2025 the operation was scattered: a small garage space in San Clemente, a satellite office in San Juan. The warehouse on Paseo Adelanto put receiving, sorting, storage, and dispatch in one place, which meant Riverbank could start accepting large items it previously had nowhere to put.
Refrigerators are the clearest example. They are heavy, they need storage, and they are the exact item that decides whether a unit passes inspection. Caporaso was shocked to learn that no other nonprofit in Southern California delivers or stores them, and made a point of always having them on hand.
The standard for what comes in is the same as the standard for what goes out, because the heart behind Riverbank is restoring dignity: if you wouldn’t have it in your own home, it doesn’t go on the truck.
What the money funds
Real programs, with real names.
Family Crisis Intervention
Riverbank works through Care Portal, a platform where caseworkers post the needs of children and families in the community. Riverbank responds in real time and fills the request.
Veteran Move-In Kits
Household kits for veterans moving into stable housing: bedding, kitchen basics, towels, cleaning supplies. Fulfilled through a public Amazon registry called Veteran Move-In Essentials.
New Mom Kits
A stroller, a car seat system, diapers, formula, and the rest of what a new mother needs on day one.
Blessing Bags
Volunteer packing events at the warehouse, assembling bags of essentials for distribution, run with partner organizations.
Corporate Cares
Businesses, schools, clubs, and community groups take on a drive or a challenge and meet a real need: appliances, beds, furniture, baby supplies.
On the record
A small organization, run tight.
The Riverbank Organization is a registered 501(c)(3), EIN 88-2594293, tax-exempt since October 2022, run lean out of one warehouse in San Juan Capistrano.
That scale is the point. At an organization this size and this local, coffee revenue genuinely matters, and it goes straight into the truck.
501(c)(3)Tax-exempt since October 2022
EIN88-2594293
Founded2022, San Juan Capistrano, California
WarehouseOpened March 2025, Paseo Adelanto
Referral partnerCare Portal
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