· Public charity
Cardinal Charities Inc
The purpose of the organization is to raise and distribute funds to other qualified section 501(c)(3) organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $247,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,921,001 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,674,001 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF THE USA | $56,500 |
| BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC | $13,000 |
| PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $10,000 |
| A NEW LEAF | $10,000 |
| CHRYSALIS SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC | $10,000 |
| PHOENIX RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX | $10,000 |
| PARENTS OF ADDICTED LOVED ONES | $10,000 |
| ICAN POSITIVE PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH | $10,000 |
| TREASURE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS | $10,000 |
| AROUET FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +57% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 7 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2017–2021 · $479k · revenue +46%
- TWTHE WASHINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2022 · $400k · revenue +65%
- DHDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY8× · 2017–2025 · $202k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- SOState of Arizonaone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- MHMesquite High Schoolone grant, 2022 · $400k
- LFLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +76%
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.
The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
Ymca of southern arizona is dedicated to improving the quality of human life and helping all people realize their fullest potential through the development of spirit, mind and body. we are a powerful association of men, women and children,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
114 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. 114 of the 127 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
- Who funds JUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF ↗
- Who funds Hope Ignites Phoenix ↗
- Who funds PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CASA CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds THE JOY BUS ↗
- Who funds TREASURE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Hyundai Hope on Wheels ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds USA FOOTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
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: Thunderbirds Charities · Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Valley of the Sun United Way · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · BHHS Legacy Foundation · American Express Foundation
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 Cardinal Charities Inc 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.