Arizona · Nonprofit
ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK
ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK (Arizona) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,868,884 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($3,957,999). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $93M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Arizona Food Bank Network does
Mission
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Member services: azfbn's logistics goal is to get more and better quality food through the food bank network and into the hands of those who need it most. In fy 2024-2025 the azfbn logistics task force distributed 60,737,079 pounds of food through partnership with our members. Azfbn's new produce rescue operations distributed 48,121,256 pounds of donated produce to food banks and provided local farmers with challenged produce for compost and livestock feed. Azfbn also continued to support our food banks by purchasing highly nutritious food for clients through the friends of the farm program.
$93,038,069 spentof which $44,750 as grants$2,990,727 earned by the program100% of program spendingInnovation programs: azfbn works to ensure that especially vulnerable populations do not suffer from hunger and have pathways toward long-term food security and economic mobility. This includes helping children access school meals even when they cannot afford to pay, expanding rural summer food options, and supporting college students through outreach and campus pantry partnerships. Azfbn collaborates with tribally led committees focused on restoring food sovereignty and building traditional food systems. A statewide task force of community partners works together to improve food access for veterans and military families. Through the no limits job training program in rio rico, azfbn prepares local residents for higher wage jobs in the produce industry by offering hands-on training, career development, and connections to long-term employment.
Advocacy and education: azfbn is a key partner in advocating for food banks and arizonans experiencing hunger at the federal and state levels. We work with policymakers and other elected officials as well as state and federal agencies to improve access to healthy food through federal programs like the supplemental nutrition program (snap, formerly food stamps), school meals and emergency food assistance.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $93,038,069.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.0M to $6.1M (+53%).
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 27% · 2018 18% · 2019 40% · 2020 13% · 2021 53% · 2022 49% · 2023 4% · 2024 9% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Edgar Lopez
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $282k → $2.9M.
14 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Food Bank). These are real filings, and they are not money ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK raised.
From the IRS filings of ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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
ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
75% 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 ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 36% · 2019 37% · 2020 37% · 2021 48% · 2022 26% · 2023 74% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $292k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$292k
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 ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: 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 ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK?
- ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK (Arizona) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,868,884 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($3,957,999). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $10,868,884 in grants to ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $3,957,999 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK 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 76 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing