· Public charity
Arizona Food Bank Network
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $39,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $44,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE | $15,750 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARI | $15,750 |
| YUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $8,250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
145 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 142 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NNOURISHPHX4× · 2019–2024 · $336k · revenue +22%
- UFUnited Food Bank2× · 2021–2022 · $307k · revenue +29%
Foothills Food Bank4× · 2019–2024 · $296k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- VVARIOUSone grant, 2024 · $102k
- GCGENERATION CHURCH ARIZONAone grant, 2021 · $63k
- JCJUSTA CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +72%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.…
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.
Provide emergency food boxes for needy families and individuals who reside in rural yavapai county arizona
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…
Provide food for at risk families
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.
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…
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…
Provide food and clothing assistance to needy individuals and families
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.
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…
The food depot fosters healthy communities by engaging a network of partners and developing solutions to create a hunger-free new mexico.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
171 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds DESERT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NOURISHPHX ↗
- Who funds United Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Foothills Food Bank ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW'S CROSSING ↗
- Who funds VESTED INTEREST COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds APACHE JUNCTION REACHOUT INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AGUA FRIA FOOD & CLOTHING BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Tempe Community Action Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds Saguaro Janes Corporation ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds Paz De Cristo Community Center ↗
- Who funds YUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE SINGLETONS ↗
- Who funds Waste Not Inc ↗
- Who funds AZCEND ↗
- Who funds CREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Alcoholism & Addiction Assistance Association Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA KOSHER FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds NATIVE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arizona Food Bank Network funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.