· Public charity
A for Arizona
A FOR ARIZONA is organized and operated for educational purposes and studies, analyzes and educates community leaders and the general public on methods, practices, and policies that prioritize student success, expand access to quality schools and allow school leaders flexibility to be entrepreneurial and innovative, with the goal of…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+13 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN MARICOPA EDUCATION CENTER | $1,854,000 |
| CARTWRIGHT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,712,000 |
| EMPOWER COLLEGE PREP | $1,283,000 |
| LAVEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT #59 | $1,255,000 |
| CHINLE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,255,000 |
| MOHAVE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,159,000 |
| SANTA CRUZ VALLEY USD #35 | $812,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $629,000 |
| DESERT SAGE SCHOOL | $492,000 |
| COLORADO RIVER UNION HS DISTRICT | $389,000 |
| HERITAGE ACADEMY | $347,000 |
| AVONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $346,000 |
| GREATER PHOENIX CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $308,000 |
| ARIZONA AUTISM CHARTER SCHOOLS INC | $207,584 |
| MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE CTED - CTEC CAMPUS | $189,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AAARIZONA AUTISM CHARTER SCHOOLS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +227%
- ECEMPOWER COLLEGE PREP3× · 2022–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +2%
- HAHERITAGE ACADEMY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +36% · 76% of their budget
Funded once
- COCITY OF CHANDLERone grant, 2022 · $2.0M
- OSOSBORN SCHOOL DISTRICT #8one grant, 2022 · $2.0M
- TUTOLLESON UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $2.0M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Operation of a private school
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
To provide a safe, positive environment for all students with a strong focus on academic success, student leadership, parental involvement, and community partnership.
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
Education
To utilize a family centric model to enlist the support of families in the education and upbringing of the whole child- academic & intellectual, recreational & cultural, character & leadership, emotional, physical & mental health- to…
Academy Del Sol's mission is to provide a rigorous and superior academic, social and behavioral education for dedicated and commited students regardless of scioeconomic status, race or ethnicity. This education will instill students with…
Commitment to development of the whole child by providing students a well-rounded, individualized education and development experience that is grounded on Montessori principles
To provide families a choice for a high quality education for their child or children in a safe, caring and harmonious environment.
Montessori based school with the purpose to provide quality education to students in grades kindergarten through 8th. operates as a charter school under a contract with the arizona state board for charter schools.
To operate a charter school and educate children. students graduate from eagle well prepared to become inspirations to their families, leaders in their communities, and successes in their workplace.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Charter Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is West-Mec Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ARIZONA AUTISM CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER COLLEGE PREP ↗
- Who funds WEST-MEC ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Mexicayotl Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ASU PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC ↗
- Who funds CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DESERT SAGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHOENIX CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Pensar Academy ↗
- Who funds LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds KAIZEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Kids Need to Read · Burton Family Foundation · Share Our Strength · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · Musical Instrument Museum · Fiesta Events Inc · Arizona Food Bank Network · Valley of the Sun United Way · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Arizona Diamondbacks Foundationinc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization A for Arizona funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.