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Arizona Food Bank Network at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$7.8MReligion$1.6MHuman Services$1.2MCommunity Improvement$333kYouth Development$316kHealth$303kHousing & Shelter$271kEducation$252kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $39,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $44,750 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$15,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARI$15,750
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE$15,750
YUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$8,250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARIVACA COORDINATING COUNCIL HR: $20k → 15%SENIOR CITIZENS OF PATAGONIA INC: $10k → 19%ARIVACA COORDINATING COUNCIL HUMAN: $11k → 15%ARIVACA COORDINATING COUNCIL HUMAN: $10k → 15%KINGMAN AID TO ABUSED PEOPLE: $10k → 17%EMMA'S EATS: $10k → 11%OLD CONCHO COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CEN: $10k → 28%OLD TOWN MISSION: $10k → 14%OLD CONCHO COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CTR: $10k → 28%LIGHT RANCH CORPORATION: $10k → 16%SHORT CREEK DREAM CENTER: $10k → 17%ST VINCENT DE PAUL CASA GRANDE: $10k → 11%SHORT CREEK DREAM CENTER: $10k → 17%SVDP CASA GRANDE CONFERENCE: $10k → 11%DOUGLAS ARC: $10k → 18%DOUGLAS AREA FOOD BANK: $10k → 18%FOR MARICOPA: $10k → 11%GREATER LITTLETOWN AREA HUMAN RESOU: $10k → 15%GREATER LITTLETOWN AREA HUMAN RESOU: $10k → 15%GAP MINISTRIES: $40k → 15%ASTER AGING INC: $10k → 11%SVDP OUR MOTHER OF SORROWS CONFEREN: $10k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SVC: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVIC: $10k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC: $10k → 11%HOPE LIVES - VIVE LA ESPERANZA: $45k → 11%AGUA FRIA FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $100k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA - HEALTHY AGI: $33k → 11%AGUA FRIA FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $55k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA - HEALTHY AGI: $28k → 11%AGUA FRIA FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $10k → 11%SOUL REVIVAL INC: $10k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF: $35k → 11%NEW LIFE CENTER: $10k → 11%RIO VISTA CENTER INC: $45k → 11%RIO VISTA CENTER INC: $34k → 11%DESERT MISSION FOOD BANK: $213k → 11%DESERT MISSION FOOD BANK: $100k → 11%THE ZION INSTITUTE: $25k → 11%DESERT MISSION FOOD BANK: $50k → 11%ARIZONA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $35k → 11%ARIZONA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $25k → 11%CASA DE AMORARIZONA BAPTIST CHILDR: $50k → 11%CITY HELP INC OF PHOENIX DBA WHERE: $10k → 11%CASA DE AMORARIZONA BAPTIST CHILDR: $34k → 11%SHORT CREEK DREAM CENTERCITY HELP: $10k → 11%THE SINGLETONS: $118k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR LIVINGFSL: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 145 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

145 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 142 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

145
167

Total granted

$10M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+4%

Still filing today

66%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionReligionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • N
    NOURISHPHX
    4× · 2019–2024 · $336k · revenue +22%
  • UF
    United Food Bank
    2× · 2021–2022 · $307k · revenue +29%
  • Foothills Food Bank
    4× · 2019–2024 · $296k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • V
    VARIOUS
    one grant, 2024 · $102k
  • GC
    GENERATION CHURCH ARIZONA
    one grant, 2021 · $63k
  • JC
    JUSTA CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +93%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sunshine Rescue Mission

Since 1957, SRM has provided safe emergency shelter, meals, and clothing to anyone in need. All participants are experiencing homelessness and living below the federal poverty line at intake. Located in Flagstaff, we have three facilities.…

Religion
2
Yavapai Food Bank Inc

To halt hunger and malnutrition in Yavapai County and provide relief from suffering for those who are living in poverty by giving a hand up, not just a hand out.

Human Services
3
Chino Valley Food Bank

Provide emergency food boxes for needy families and individuals who reside in rural yavapai county arizona

Food & Nutrition
4
Arizonas Family to the Homeless

Arizonas Family to the Homeless Inc relies solely upon the generosity and commitment of our community members to provide critical services to our homeless & low income families; and we gratefully accept your tax-deductible financial and…

Food & Nutrition
5
Caring Coalition Az

Provide food for at risk families

Human Services
6
Southeastern Arizona Community Unique Services

To provide services to the elderly and disabled in the form of congregate and home delivered meals, housekeeping services, in-home nursing care, home health aides, and other services.

Health
7
Central Valley Feed the Homeless

Provide a safe space for homeless to be fed/do laundry/take showers and provide job search help and transportation to necessary appointments provede bus tickets for stranded people who come for drug treatment and have no resources to get…

Food & Nutrition
8
Mobile Meals of Southern Arizona Inc

Meal delivery - this is a volunteer-based program that preserves the health, dignity and independence of homebound adults by delivering medically-tailored meals five days a week. clients are eligible if they are homebound, live within…

Food & Nutrition
9
Sedona Area Homeless Alliance

Sedona Area Homeless Alliance is the primary source of services, information and personal support for the homeless community in the Sedona Arizona area and was established to fill the void of services.

Human Services
10
Southeastern Arizona Community Action Program

The organization provides assistance to the needy including utility assistance, food assistance, weatherization of homes, assistance for the homeless and emergency assistance to prevent homelessness, and transportation and other assistance…

Human Services
11
Gods Vast Resources

Provide food and clothing assistance to needy individuals and families

Human Services
12
Valley Mission Inc

Valley Mission currently operates a Food Pantry. New services offered in the new facility will inlcude an 18-bed emergency shelter, commercial kitchen/dining area, office space, medical clinic, 16-bed transformational living program (6…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission; the most unlike its peers is Oasis Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

171 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 171 of the 312 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
157/171
Grantees still filing
104/171
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $505,650 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFoothills Food Bank: $296,319 · OtherFoothills Food BankAPACHE JUNCTION REACHOUT INC: $225,000 · Other+121 more: $4,347,084 · Other+121 moreCommunity Food Bank Inc: $554,750 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank …ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $338,029 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK …United Food Bank: $306,500 · Food & NutritionUnited Food BankMATTHEW'S CROSSING: $253,111 · Food & NutritionMATTHEW'S CROSSINGPaz De Cristo Community Center: $148,200 · Food & NutritionPaz De Cristo Commun…YUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $134,340 · Food & NutritionYUMA COMMUNITY FOOD …Waste Not Inc: $113,800 · Food & NutritionWaste Not Inc+10 more: $278,450 · Food & Nutrition+10 moreDESERT MISSION INC: $371,870 · Human ServicesDESERT MISSION INCNOURISHPHX: $336,050 · Human ServicesNOURISHPHXARIZONA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $255,421 · Human ServicesARIZONA BAPTIST CHIL…AGUA FRIA FOOD & CLOTHING BANK INC: $173,000 · Human ServicesAGUA FRIA FOOD & CLO…THE SINGLETONS: $126,500 · Human ServicesTHE SINGLETONSAZCEND: $112,500 · Human ServicesAZCENDCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $93,800 · Human Services+21 more: $619,842 · Human Services+21 moreNeighborhood Ministries Inc: $207,443 · ReligionNeighborh…PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $168,200 · ReligionPHOENIX G…DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $151,250 · ReligionDIOCESAN …ARIZONA KOSHER FOOD PANTRY: $89,745 · ReligionARIZONA K…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST: $69,200 · ReligionLUTHERAN …BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $43,200 · ReligionMARYS MINISTRIES INC: $40,700 · ReligionWORLD MINISTRIES: $37,162 · ReligionOasis Ministries: $31,750 · Religion+4 more: $103,258 · Religion+4 moreTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $168,400 · Community ImprovementSaguaro Janes Corporation: $159,282 · Community ImprovementLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $30,760 · Community ImprovementAJO CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: $30,000 · Community ImprovementIMPACT OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $20,000 · Community ImprovementBISBEE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $15,692 · Community ImprovementVESTED INTEREST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $244,437 · Youth DevelopmentDAMION GOSA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION AZ: $62,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentResurrection Street Ministry Inc: $68,200 · Housing & ShelterUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $62,405 · Housing & ShelterHouse of Refuge Sunnyslope Inc: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterSt Francis Shelter: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW DIMENSIONS IN RECOVERY INC: $29,000 · Housing & ShelterSister Jose Women's Center: $27,500 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF REFUGE INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING SOUTHWEST: $18,500 · Housing & ShelterHope Coalition: $16,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$5,374,053Food & Nutrition$2,127,180Human Services$2,088,983Religion$941,908Community Improvement$424,134Youth Development$316,437Housing & Shelter$311,605

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $554,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDESERT MISSION INC: $371,870 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $338,029 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNOURISHPHX: $336,050 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetUnited Food Bank: $306,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFoothills Food Bank: $296,319 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetARIZONA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $255,421 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMATTHEW'S CROSSING: $253,111 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetVESTED INTEREST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $244,437 over 3y, 19% of budgetAPACHE JUNCTION REACHOUT INC: $225,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNeighborhood Ministries Inc: $207,443 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetALL FAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $176,082 over 6y, 42% of budgetAGUA FRIA FOOD & CLOTHING BANK INC: $173,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $168,400 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $168,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSaguaro Janes Corporation: $159,282 over 4y, 92% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $151,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPaz De Cristo Community Center: $148,200 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetYUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $134,340 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SINGLETONS: $126,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetWaste Not Inc: $113,800 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAZCEND: $112,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $112,200 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $109,416 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $103,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAlcoholism & Addiction Assistance Association Inc: $95,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $94,600 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $93,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA KOSHER FOOD PANTRY: $89,745 over 3y, 12% of budgetNATIVE HEALTH: $87,775 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INC: $87,070 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST: $69,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOJOURNER CENTER: $68,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetResurrection Street Ministry Inc: $68,200 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $62,405 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHope Lives Vive La Esperanza: $54,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetArivaca Human Resources: $50,831 over 4y, 12% of budgetJUSTA CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER PARADISE VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE TEAM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetManzanita Outreach: $50,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY VIEW COMMUNITY FOOD ASSISTANCE: $48,200 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGENESIS PROJECT AZ: $45,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMOUNTAIN PARK HEALTH CENTER: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CULTURAL CUP FOOD BANK: $43,546 over 2y, 24% of budgetCIVITAN FOUNDATION INC: $43,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SENIOR LIVING: $41,207 over 3y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

St Mary's Food Bank A…United Food BankCommunity Food Bank I…Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…Community Foundation …The Diane and Bruce H…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Phoenix Suns Charitie…John F Long Foundatio…Thunderbirds CharitiesArizona Diamondbacks …
St Mary's Food Bank AllianceAZ238.8× affinity144 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · United Food Bank · Community Food Bank Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · John F Long Foundation Inc · Thunderbirds Charities · Arizona Diamondbacks Foundationinc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arizona Food Bank Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arizona Food Bank Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 312 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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