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Congregate Meals for Seniors

01 Congregate Meals for Seniors · 94 edit slice
39
orgs
94
activities
4
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 39 organizations and 94 activities — Foodbank of Santa Barbara County, SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK, VERDE VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (64%) and California (36%). The field's most common shared approach is "Emergency Data Access", run by 1 orgs.
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County and SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
pull-quote · for funders
who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 64% · 25 orgs
California 36% · 14 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 39

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where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

USDA 7
Government
Medi-Cal 3
Government
Medicare 3
Government
Community Mental Health Services Block Grant (MHBG) 2
Government
Family and Youth Services Bureau 2
Government
Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services (OFVPS) 2
Government
Substance Abuse Block Grant (SABG) 2
Government
ALTCS 1
Government
ALTCS (via Banner Health, Mercy Care, United Healthcare) 1
Government
APS 1
Corporate
Agency and DES 1
Government
Amazon 1
Corporate
Anthony Pritzker Family Foundation 1
Foundation
Area Agencies on Aging 1
Government
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Emergency Data Access
1
Structured Student Employment
1
Student-Centered Employment
1
Weather-Responsive Operations
2
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

Feeding America Network
shared by 6 orgs
USDA Government
shared by 6 orgs
Amazon Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Medi-Cal Government
shared by 4 orgs
Medicare Government
shared by 4 orgs
CalFresh Government
shared by 3 orgs
First Things First Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Safeway Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Albertsons Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Revenue Government
shared by 2 orgs
CARF International Network
shared by 2 orgs
California Department of Health Care Services Government
shared by 2 orgs
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) Funder
shared by 2 orgs
DES Government
shared by 2 orgs
Department of Child Safety Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Dignity Health Partner
shared by 2 orgs
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

235.0M
Pounds distributed
from 5 orgs
122.4M
People served
from 22 orgs
36.6M
Meals provided
from 8 orgs
29K
Volunteers
from 6 orgs
22K
Partner organizations
from 20 orgs
4K
Staff
from 9 orgs