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United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

$43M
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$853kHuman Services$49kReligion$43kCommunity Improvement$11kHealth$10kCrime & Legal$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHousing & Shelter$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 53 grants below total $208,966, the rows itemized in this filing. The $43,431,248 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,222,282 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k46 grants · $130k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $79k
$3,015
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Paz De Cristo Community Center$18,956
Abiding Ministries$10,209
Round Valley Senior Center$10,000
Child Crisis Arizona$10,000
ICNA Relief$10,000
Community Presbyterian Deacon's Pantry$10,000
Nalwoodi Denzhone Strength and Beauty Community$10,000
Superior Food Bank$9,936
Faith With Action$9,911
Shepherds Kitchen Food Bank$8,663
Northern Arizona Academy$8,277
Canyon Day Assembly of God Food Pantry$8,244
REcenter$7,200
New Hope Community Church$7,195
Show Low First Baptist Church$7,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PAYSON COMMUNITY KIDS: $10k → 19%PAYSON COMMUNITY KIDS: $8k → 19%EMMA'S EATS: $150 → 11%Hope International Food Pantry: $341 → 11%Round Valley Cares Inc: $5k → 28%AGAINST ABUSE - LA CASA DE PAZ: $1k → 11%ROUND VALLEY CARES INC: $2k → 28%CASA GRANDE SVDP: $1k → 11%ROUND VALLEY CARES INC: $1k → 28%CARING HANDS OF PINAL COUNTY: $36 → 11%CARING HANDS OF PINAL COUNTY: $31 → 11%ROUND VALLEY CARES INC: $120 → 28%SHOW LOW FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $154 → 26%HAYDEN SENIOR CENTER: $60 → 19%OLD CONCHO COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE: $1k → 28%SHOW LOW FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $51 → 26%OLD CONCHO COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE: $264 → 28%OLD CONCHO COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE: $180 → 28%Shepherds Kitchen Food Bank: $9k → 26%Old Concho Community Assistance: $168 → 28%COPA HEALTH: $114 → 11%GENESIS PROJECT: $535 → 11%AZCEND FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 11%GENESIS PROJECT: $217 → 11%My Sisters' Place: $77 → 11%MY SISTERS' PLACE: $19 → 11%MesaCAN: $116 → 11%MESACAN: $18 → 11%COMMUNITY ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY ABUSE: $1k → 11%AZCEND FOOD PANTRY: $12k → 11%Genesis Project: $278 → 11%AZCEND FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 11%NEW HORIZON COMMUNITY CARE-CULINARY CENTER: $312 → 11%NEW HORIZON COMMUNITY CARE-CULINARY CENTER: $76 → 11%Emma's Eats: $3k → 11%NEW HORIZON COMMUNITY CARE: $489 → 11%RIO VISTA CENTER AT CASA DE AMOR: $11k → 11%RIO VISTA CENTER AT CASA DE AMOR: $1k → 11%RIO VISTA CENTER AT CASA DE AMOR: $1k → 11%Rio Vista Center at Casa De Amor: $221 → 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$735k · 63 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
31

Total granted

$735k
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

52%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • ND
    NALWOODI DENZHONE STRENGTH AND BEAUTY COMMUNITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $260k · revenue +4% · 27% of their budget
  • PD
    Paz De Cristo Community Center
    6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +63%
  • DC
    DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • K
    KNNB
    one grant, 2022 · $138k
  • SO
    SHEPHERD OF THE PINES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    6× · 2020–2025 · $10k
  • FF
    FEEDING FAMILIES FOOD PANTRY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $10k
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Chino Valley Food Bank

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

Food & Nutrition
7
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
8
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
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
Palo Verde Valley Senior Citizens Non Profit Corporation

The mission of this organization is to provide a hot lunch meal for senior citizens homeless or families with low income in the community of blythe and the surrounding areas of the palo verde valley

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11
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
12
Caring Coalition Az

Provide food for at risk families

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest; 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

88 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. 88 of the 108 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/88
Grantees still filing
50/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KNNB: $137,940 · OtherKNNBCANYON DAY ASSEMBLY OF GOD: $24,913 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $18,943 · OtherSilver Creek Senior Citizens Council: $16,885 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES GALLUP INC: $16,181 · Other+61 more: $266,074 · Other+61 moreNALWOODI DENZHONE STRENGTH AND BEAUTY COMMUNITY: $259,604 · HealthNALWOODI DENZHONE STRENGTH AND …A NEW LEAF: $12,161 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthPaz De Cristo Community Center: $31,432 · Food & NutritionMATTHEW'S CROSSING: $18,956 · Food & NutritionARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: $10,000 · Food & NutritionUnited Food Bank: $8,427 · Food & NutritionTRI-COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $4,126 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $2,501 · Food & NutritionPAYSON COMMUNITY KIDS INC: $18,303 · Human ServicesAZCEND: $14,481 · Human ServicesARIZONA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $13,201 · Human ServicesSHEPHERD KITCHEN & THRIFT OF WHITE MTNS: $8,868 · Human ServicesROUND VALLEY CARES INC: $7,509 · Human ServicesJose's Closet Inc: $3,614 · Human Services+12 more: $8,936 · Human ServicesDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $27,591 · ReligionABIDING MINISTRIES: $20,330 · ReligionRECENTERS OF ARIZONA INC: $7,200 · ReligionBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $5,532 · Religion+3 more: $4,311 · ReligionTIME OUT INC: $7,922 · Housing & ShelterResurrection Street Ministry Inc: $2,826 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY ACTION HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY: $1,847 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF REFUGE INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $10,287 · Community ImprovementTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $1,733 · Community Improvement
Other$480,936Health$273,765Food & Nutrition$75,442Human Services$74,912Religion$64,964Housing & Shelter$13,595Community Improvement$12,020

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 budgetNALWOODI DENZHONE STRENGTH AND BEAUTY COMMUNITY: $259,604 over 5y, 27% of budgetPaz De Cristo Community Center: $31,432 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $27,591 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetABIDING MINISTRIES: $20,330 over 3y, 10% of budgetMATTHEW'S CROSSING: $18,956 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPAYSON COMMUNITY KIDS INC: $18,303 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetSilver Creek Senior Citizens Council: $16,885 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetGILA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $15,235 over 6y, 12% of budgetAZCEND: $14,481 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $13,201 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetA NEW LEAF: $12,161 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAPACHE JUNCTION REACHOUT INC: $10,955 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $10,287 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $10,006 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD KITCHEN & THRIFT OF WHITE MTNS: $8,868 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetUnited Food Bank: $8,427 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCareer Development Incorporated: $8,277 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTIME OUT INC: $7,922 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetROUND VALLEY CARES INC: $7,509 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetRECENTERS OF ARIZONA INC: $7,200 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTLC TRANSITIONAL LIVING COMMUNITIES: $6,652 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $5,532 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $4,126 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetJose's Closet Inc: $3,614 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetResurrection Street Ministry Inc: $2,826 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGENESIS PROJECT AZ: $2,196 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNATIVE HEALTH: $1,893 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY: $1,847 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOLD CONCHO COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CEN: $1,756 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $1,733 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY: $1,544 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST: $1,488 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STRAWBERRY FOOD BANK: $1,266 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDESERT MANNA FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,235 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY ABUSE: $1,195 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAGAINST ABUSE INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS CARE CENTER: $1,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHANDLER CARE CENTER CHILDRENS MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINIC INC: $1,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL ST ANTHONY'S CONFERENCE OF CG: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOUSE OF REFUGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HORIZON YOUTH HOMES INC: $877 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROUND VALLEY: $347 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL FOOD PANTRY: $341 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN VOLKEN ACADEMY: $166 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMESA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK INCORPORATED: $134 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $114 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds NALWOODI DENZHONE STRENGTH AND BEAUTY COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds Paz De Cristo Community Center ↗
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds ABIDING MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW'S CROSSING ↗
  • Who funds PAYSON COMMUNITY KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Silver Creek Senior Citizens Council ↗
  • Who funds GILA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds AZCEND ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds A NEW LEAF ↗
  • Who funds APACHE JUNCTION REACHOUT INC ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD KITCHEN & THRIFT OF WHITE MTNS ↗
  • Who funds United Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Career Development Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds TIME OUT INC ↗
  • Who funds ROUND VALLEY CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds RECENTERS OF ARIZONA INC ↗

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.

Arizona Food Bank Net…St Mary's Food Bank A…Arizona Community Fou…Waste Not IncVirginia G Piper Char…Arizona Diamondbacks …Kids Need to ReadMesa United Way IncNina Mason Pulliam Ch…Thunderbirds CharitiesThe Diane and Bruce H…Valley of the Sun Uni…
Arizona Food Bank NetworkAZ126.2× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Food Bank Network · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · Arizona Community Foundation · Waste Not Inc · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Arizona Diamondbacks Foundationinc · Kids Need to Read · Mesa United Way Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way

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 United Food Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Food Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    22report 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 108 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $46M 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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