Arizona · Nonprofit
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE (Arizona) receives grants from 511 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,589,739 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($16,240,689). 317 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $260M
- Funders on record
- 511
- Grants received
- $65M
- Net assets
- $42M
What St Mary's Food Bank Alliance does
Mission
Bridging the gap for arizona communities with nourishment for today and hope for tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
St. Mary's food bank provides free, nutritious food to arizona residents experiencing food insecurity, including low-income children, seniors, and working families impacted by unemployment, natural disasters, unexpected expenses, and the rising costs of food, housing, healthcare, and transportation.food distributed to neighbors is sourced through a diversified network of grocers, farmers, food manufacturers, community food drives, and the usda. Purchased food supplements donated items to ensure menu variety and nutritional quality. Foods distributed include fresh produce, protein, dairy, and shelf-stable goods. (continued on schedule o)during the past year, st. Mary's secured enough food to provide 109 million meals.food assistance programs include:emergency food boxes: three-day supply of nutritious food including produce, protein, and pantry staples. These boxes are supplemented with fresh produce, dairy, meat, snacks and beverages. During the past year, 895,000 efbs were distributed. Senior food boxes (csfp): the commodities supplemental food program is a usda program specifically tailored for our senior neighbors. The prescribed menu consists of shelf-stable fruits,…
$239,852,841 spentof which $199,524,028 as grants$1,306,747 earned by the program99% of program spendingIn addition to food assistance programs, st. Mary's offer vocational training programs through the st. Mary's skills center. The skills center operates two workforce development programs: community kitchen and lift. These programs serve individuals facing employment barriers related to poverty, homelessness, or prior incarceration by providing hands-on training, life skills development, and job readiness support.for more than 20 years, the community kitchen program has prepared participants for careers in the food service industry, while also supporting the kids cafe program by preparing meals for children across the phoenix metropolitan area. (continued on schedule o)in response to changing labor market conditions, st. Mary's launched the lift program to train participants for warehouse and logistics careers. Leveraging the organization's expertise in large-scale food warehousing and distribution, lift prepares participants for employment opportunities offering livable wages and advancement potential.together, these programs focus on long-term stability and economic mobility. During the past year, 255 students successfully graduated from the skills center workforce development…
$1,741,832 spent$7,882 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $241,594,673.
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 2021 to 2022, from $45M to $62M (+36%).
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 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 5% · 2022 5% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE’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. 1 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
Milton Liu
President & CEO
Board chair
Douglas Currault
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 78 funders to 225 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $10M.
56 of 511 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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: $6.9M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Smfb Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 511 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
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
72% 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 ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 29% · 2019 26% · 2020 18% · 2021 25% · 2022 34% · 2023 32% — 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
50% of ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 41 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M 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.
Against its field
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 31 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 31 food & nutrition nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.0M
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 ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Smfb Foundation · exempt
- Smfb Nmtc Support Corp · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: 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 ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE?
- ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE (Arizona) receives grants from 511 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,589,739 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($16,240,689). 317 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 511 organizations giving $64,589,739 in grants to ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE, 317 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $16,240,689 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE 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 511 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