Arizona · Nonprofit
FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC
FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC (Arizona) receives grants from 184 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,622,177 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($3,599,146). 112 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $155M
- Funders on record
- 184
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Food for the Hungry Inc does
Mission
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on schedule o)collaborating with local leaders across sectors, we co-create solutions that build resilience by strengthening mental, physical and spiritual well-being. We serve nearly 10 million people in 18 countries so that communities have the agency and resources necessary to realize their god-given potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Relief and development programs -to build resilience so communities can flourish, emergency relief and rehabilitation, clean-water and sanitation projects, health education and intervention, agriculture development, income generation, life-skills training, and education programs are conducted around the world in developing countries and specifically in the hard places among the poorest of the poor.
$80,698,843 spentof which $70,360,585 as grants68% of program spendingChild sponsorship and development program - monthly sponsorship equips families to build resilience so communities can flourish. We address the nutrition, education, health, and spiritual needs of a child. Because the programs are family and community based, gifts help the entire family and community. Currently there are over 174,000 sponsored children in 17 countries around the world. These countries are bolivia, peru, dominican republic, haiti, guatemala, nicaragua, burundi, uganda, rwanda, ethiopia, kenya, mozambique, cambodia, bangladesh, indonesia, philippines, and vietnam.
$35,740,737 spentof which $32,854,841 as grants30% of program spendingPublic awareness and education program -food for the hungry seeks to influence the conversations, policy decisions, and actions that impact the lives of the people we serve by increasing our visibility and leadership among partners, peers and policymakers.
$1,422,147 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $117,861,727.
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 2019 to 2020, from $22M to $40M (+77%).
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 41% · 2018 42% · 2019 39% · 2020 46% · 2021 39% · 2022 47% · 2023 39% · 2024 53% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% 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.
Chief executive
Mark Viso
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 38 funders to 82 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $2.8M.
38 of 184 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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: $8.8M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fh Association). These are real filings, and they are not money FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 184 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
FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
81% 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 FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 22% · 2019 18% · 2020 28% · 2021 26% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% — diversifying over time.
“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
45% of FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
58% of FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8.7M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 36 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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
FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC's revenue grew 41% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 59 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250.8M on record.
- Agency for International Development$249.1M
- Department of State$1.7M
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 FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 23 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Fh Association · exempt
- Food for the Hungry Foundation Inc · exempt
- Food for the Hungry UK · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: 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 FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC?
- FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC (Arizona) receives grants from 184 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,622,177 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($3,599,146). 112 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC have?
- IRS filings report 184 organizations giving $20,622,177 in grants to FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC, 112 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,599,146 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC 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 184 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