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Food & Essential Needs Distribution

01 Food & Essential Needs Distribution · 1,914 edit slice
469
orgs
1,773
activities
82
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 469 organizations and 1,773 activities — SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK, ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK, FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (80%) and California (20%). The field's most common shared approach is "Accessible Facility Location", run by 1 orgs.
SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK and CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK 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 80% · 374 orgs
California 20% · 95 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 469

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
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 40
Government
Medi-Cal 11
Government
APS 5
Corporate
Arizona Department of Economic Security 4
Government
Arizona Department of Revenue 4
Government
Fry's Food Stores 4
Corporate
HRSA 4
Government
Medicare 4
Government
Walmart 4
Corporate
AHCCCS 3
Government
Arizona Department of Housing 3
Government
Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust 3
Foundation
PG&E 3
Corporate
State of Arizona 3
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
Accessible Facility Location
1
Age-Targeted Vaccination
2
Allergy-Safe Environment
4
Alumni-Driven Continuity
1
Behavioral Continuity
1
Booking Agent Model
2
Client-Centered Preparation
1
Client-Choice Model
1
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.

USDA Government
shared by 21 orgs
Feeding America Network
shared by 18 orgs
Arizona Department of Revenue Government
shared by 17 orgs
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 12 orgs
Amazon Partner
shared by 11 orgs
St. Mary’s Food Bank Partner
shared by 11 orgs
CalFresh Government
shared by 10 orgs
Phoenix Children’s Hospital Partner
shared by 9 orgs
Arizona Department of Education Government
shared by 8 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 8 orgs
Valley of the Sun United Way Partner
shared by 8 orgs
Arizona Department of Economic Security Government
shared by 7 orgs
Arizona Department of Health Services Government
shared by 7 orgs
Phoenix Children's Hospital Partner
shared by 7 orgs
Safeway Partner
shared by 7 orgs
United Way Partner
shared by 7 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.

950.2M
Pounds distributed
from 38 orgs
474.7M
People served
from 185 orgs
219.7M
Meals provided
from 43 orgs
96.0M
annual revenue
from 11 orgs