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Food Pantry and Voucher Distribution

01 Food Pantry and Voucher Distribution · 61 edit slice
33
orgs
61
activities
3
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 33 organizations and 61 activities — REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK, CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS, PRESCOTT FARMERS MARKET, SECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (64%) and California (36%). The field's most common shared approach is "Financial Impact Tracking", run by 1 orgs.
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK and CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
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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% · 21 orgs
California 36% · 12 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 33

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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 5
Government
105 major food donors 1
Corporate
ALTCS 1
Government
Affordable Care Act 1
Government
Amazon 1
Corporate
American Cancer Society 1
Foundation
American Indian Law Alliance 1
Foundation
Area Agencies on Aging 1
Government
Arizona Department of Economic Security 1
Government
Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES) 1
Government
Arizona QCO 1
Government
Bishop's Storehouse 1
Government
CARES Foundation 1
Foundation
CalWORKs 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
Financial Impact Tracking
1
Safe Digital Access
1
Safety-First Operations
4
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 4 orgs
USDA Government
shared by 4 orgs
Amazon Partner
shared by 3 orgs
CalFresh Government
shared by 3 orgs
California Department of Social Services Government
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Food Bank Network Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Feeding San Diego Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Merced County Food Bank Partner
shared by 2 orgs
United Way of Tucson Partner
shared by 2 orgs
112 partner agencies Partner
shared by 1 org
112 partner organizations Partner
shared by 1 org
2-1-1 Partner
shared by 1 org
2-1-1 Arizona Partner
shared by 1 org
2-1-1 Sacramento Partner
shared by 1 org
36 community partner agencies Partner
shared by 1 org
7th Street Food Pantry And Outreach Partner
shared by 1 org
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.

94.8M
Pounds distributed
from 5 orgs
62.3M
Meals provided
from 4 orgs
1.6M
People served
from 14 orgs
21K
Volunteers
from 4 orgs
4K
Staff
from 9 orgs
1K
Partner organizations
from 14 orgs