California · Nonprofit
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger (California) receives grants from 534 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,773,422 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,299,125). 342 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 534
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $9.2M
What MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger does
Mission
Inspired by Jewish values and ideals, MAZON is a national advocacy organization working to end hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds in the United States and Israel. See Schedule O for more details.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Inspired by Jewish values and ideals, MAZON is a national advocacy organization working to end hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds in the United States and Israel. For nearly four decades, MAZON has strengthened government food programs so they are available, accessible, and meaningful to all those who need them. MAZONs efforts are designed to ensure that people have access to the meaningful resources they need to buy food in a manner that is dignified and without judgment the only institution in America that can accomplish this is the government, so our work focuses there.See Schedule O for more details.
$8,178,572 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,178,572.
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.
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 $7.5M to $10M (+38%).
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.
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
Abby J Leibman
President & CEO
Board chair
Carolyn Schwarz Tisdale
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 157 funders to 213 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.8M.
65 of 534 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 534 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
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
73% 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 MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 21% · 2019 19% · 2020 22% · 2021 26% · 2022 20% · 2023 21% — 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
45% of MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
69% of MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger'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 $6.1M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside California, across 41 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 26 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.
Organizations like MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 44 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: 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 MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger?
- MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger (California) receives grants from 534 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,773,422 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,299,125). 342 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger have?
- IRS filings report 534 organizations giving $19,773,422 in grants to MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger, 342 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,299,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 534 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