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St Mary's Food Bank Alliance

Bridging the gap for arizona communities with nourishment for today and hope for tomorrow.

$218M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Food & Nutrition$74M
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $24,724,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $217,504,409 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $192,780,409 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.

$24,724,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$82M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMFB NMTC SUPPORT CORP$24,724,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SMFB FOUNDATION: $31.7M → 11%SMFB NMTC SUPPORT CORP: $24.7M → 11%SMFB FOUNDATION: $14.0M → 11%SMFB foundation: $2.2M → 11%SMFB FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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
Azcend

AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.

Human Services
2
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
3
Sahuarita Food Bank

The organization's mission is to feed the hungry in the community through education, advocacy and the acquisition, storage and distribution of food.

Food & Nutrition
4
The Arvada Community Food Bank dba Community Table

A community in which people have access to food and resources to foster self-sufficiency

Food & Nutrition
5
Foothills Food Bank

The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.

6
Chino Valley Food Bank

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

Food & Nutrition
7
Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino Counties

Our mission is to alleviate hunger in the inland empire of southern california.

Food & Nutrition
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
Food Bank of Eastern New Mexico

The organization solicits, collects and purchases food and grocery items for distribution to other nonprofit organizations such as churches, clubs and agencies with programs to feed the ill, infants/children, elderly and needy. the…

Food & Nutrition
12
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission and the most unlike its peers is Daake Halani Development Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChildren's Support ServicesCommunity Health Access Org…Labor Union LocalsFamily Support ServicesSenior Housing and CarePrivate School Scholarship …Charter and Private SchoolsSupportive Housing & Servic…Senior & Food Assistance Se…Regional History & Natural …Evangelical Christian Missi…Donor-Advised FundsPerforming Arts Organizatio…Family Philanthropic Founda…Community Membership Organi…Business Advocacy Organizat…
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%6%<5yr17%8%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr14%21%20–35yr10%28%35–55yr11%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%34%<5yr17%0%5–10yr19%66%10–20yr14%0%20–35yr10%0%35–55yr11%0%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 34% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
22/532
the rest of the field
17%
3,315/19,861

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.

04the grantee network

248 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
225/248
Grantees still filing
156/248
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSMFB FOUNDATION — $48,878,663 over 4y, 95% of budgetSMFB NMTC SUPPORT CORP — $24,724,000 over 1y, 99% of budget
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 NetworkAZ238.8× affinity144 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Food Bank Network · United Food Bank · Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Valley of the Sun United Way · Waste Not Inc · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Arizona Diamondbacks Foundationinc · 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 organization 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 2 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $200M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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