Arizona · Nonprofit
Activate Food Arizona
Activate Food Arizona (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,058,142 to it, the largest being MERCY CARE ($1,605,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $650k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $249k
What Activate Food Arizona does
Mission
Our goal is to work with community members to create an equitable food system that provides all communities access to healthy, affordable food to help everyone reach their highest potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provider of not-for-profit usda snap-program-approved service offering affordable fresh fruits and vegetables in a federally-designated food desert. Service targets neighborhoods experiencing food insecurity and under-resourced schools within the region, specifically serving low income seniors, elementary students 98% of whom qualify for federal free and reduced lunch programs, veterans, and families with young children.
$690,669 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $690,669.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $483k to $146k (−70%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2021 8% · 2022 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of Activate Food Arizona’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Lloyd Ramsey
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $46k → $25k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Activate Food Arizona’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Activate Food Arizona leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Activate Food Arizona.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 58% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 56% · 2022 86% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Activate Food Arizona's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $226k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Activate Food Arizona's revenue grew 16% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Activate Food Arizona receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$16k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Activate Food Arizona
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Activate Food Arizona: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Activate Food Arizona?
- Activate Food Arizona (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,058,142 to it, the largest being MERCY CARE ($1,605,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Activate Food Arizona have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,058,142 in grants to Activate Food Arizona, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Activate Food Arizona?
- MERCY CARE is the largest funder on record, with $1,605,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Activate Food Arizona find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing