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Arizona Financial Credit Union
The purpose of Arizona Financial Credit Union (AZFCU) is to promote thrift and to provide credit to its members.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $210,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $251,482 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,482 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Karuna Horse Rescue Inc | $27,500 |
| Autism Society of Greater Phoenix | $17,500 |
| A Permanent Voice | $12,500 |
| United Sound Inc | $12,500 |
| Arizona State Fire Training Committee Inc | $12,500 |
| Agua Fria Food and Clothing Bank Inc | $12,500 |
| Base Arizona | $12,500 |
| Help a Dog Smile | $12,500 |
| Shethrives Foundation | $10,000 |
| Little Humble Entrepreneurs Foundation | $10,000 |
| Young & Empowered Women | $10,000 |
| Local First Arizona | $10,000 |
| Larry Thomas Youth Development Corporation | $10,000 |
| Confidence Kits Inc | $10,000 |
| Lights Camera Discover | $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 (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
Through pets and community we help people in crisis and disaster to their new norm through resiliency.
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
Prevention of animal cruelty and intervention on behalf of animals being abused.
AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.
Bridging the gap for arizona communities with nourishment for today and hope for tomorrow.
Provide food for at risk families
To provide clothing, food, recreational, and educational equipment to abused, abandoned, and neglected foster children in the state of Arizona and to kinship foster families currently receiving TANF benefits.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agua Fria Food & Clothing Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Help a Dog Smile. 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 11 years old; the field is 11. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 22% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 26 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 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds Karuna Horse Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Autism Society of Greater Phoenix ↗
- Who funds AGUA FRIA FOOD & CLOTHING BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE FIRE TRAINING COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds HELP A DOG SMILE ↗
- Who funds THE BARN HOUSE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Larry Thomas Youth Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JOY BUS ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Quartzsite Food Bank ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW'S CROSSING ↗
- Who funds Lights Camera Discover ↗
- Who funds CREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME NETWORK INC DBA DSNetwork ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESTORATIONS ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES RAISING HOPE ↗
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 · Thunderbirds Charities · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Arizona Food Bank Network · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · American Express Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Arizona Financial Credit Union 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.
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