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· Public charity
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
Alleviate hunger through the gathering and distribution of food.
$148M
Granted FY2022
1
Grants
1
Communities
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2022.
Education$47M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
refugeparticipantsaesdsrmnifty thriftyalhambra elementarycircumstances
2020
rehabilitationlifelineover millionmillion mealsabuse counselingeastpromoting
2021
neighborhoodslivephysicalaffordable primaryprimary carecare greaterengaged
2022
neighborhoodscovenant faithbiblicalcampusnorthland pioneerrenvibrant
2023
adelanteplacement aftercareaftercare poorpoor homelessmanagementpeoplesadvocate mentor
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SMFB FOUNDATION$1,000,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
Sedona Community Food Bank
Provides food to those in need in the verde valley & sedona arizona area.
Food & Nutrition
2
The Arvada Community Food Bank
A community in which people have access to food and resources to foster self-sufficiency
Food & Nutrition
3
Azcend
At AZCEND, we change lives by nourishing minds and bodies to create a connected, thriving community through the Chandler Food Bank, Family Resource Center, Neighborhood Assistance Services (NAS), Homeless Programs and Senior Nutrition and…
Human Services
4
Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley Inc
The Food Bank's purpose is to collect and warehouse salvageable food and commodities and to distribute those items to various area social agencies which assist the needy within Hidalgo, Willacy, and Cameron counties.
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5
Tri-Community Food Bank Inc
Feeding neighbors in southwestern pinal county.
Food & Nutrition
6
Central Utah Food Sharing
Food bank - to assist those families who face the dilemma of paying rent or buying food.
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7
Impact of Southern Arizona
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
Community Improvement
8
Prescott Community Cupboard Food Bank Inc
The mission of the prescott community cupboard food bank, inc. (pccfb) is to serve individuals and families who are experiencing food insecurity in the surrounding areas.
Food & Nutrition
9
Rainier Valley Food Bank
Distributing donated and purchased food to low-income households and homeless individuals.
Unclassified
10
Caring Ministries Inc
Food and clothing distribution along the arizona/mexico border and southern arizona. provide living quarters for volunteer missionaries who have no other place to live and to provide support to orphanages.
Religion
11
The Food Bank for Larimer County
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Food & Nutrition
12
Family Services of the Desert Inc
Food Now strives to improve the quality of life for residents of the western Coachella Valley by providing food assistance, community outreach and support services which strengthen families and build healthy communities.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Refuge Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maricopa County Community College. 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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 32 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 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%14/454
the rest of the field
14%
2,801/19,939
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.
05the grantee network
204 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2023.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
54
Early backer (in before they grew)
186/204
Grantees still filing
141/204
Grew since you first funded
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.
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.
Arizona Food Bank NetworkAZ241× affinity141 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Arizona Food Bank Network · Arizona Community Foundation · United Food Bank · Valley of the Sun United Way · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Waste Not Inc · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Arizona Diamondbacks Foundationinc · Grand Canyon University CityServe · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation
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 organisation ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE 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.
2023
’20’21’22’23
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–23
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SMFB FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 270277109 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SMFB FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 95% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to St Mary's Food Bank Alliance?
Find your warmest path to St Mary's Food Bank Alliance through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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