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Arizona Financial Credit Union at a glance

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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.

$251k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Animals$50kFood & Nutrition$43kPublic Safety & Disaster$43kHealth$35kCommunity Improvement$33kPhilanthropy$30kYouth Development$30kArts & Culture$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $210,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $251,482 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $41,482 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Karuna Horse Rescue Inc$27,500
Autism Society of Greater Phoenix$17,500
Help a Dog Smile$12,500
Arizona State Fire Training Committee Inc$12,500
A Permanent Voice$12,500
United Sound Inc$12,500
Agua Fria Food and Clothing Bank Inc$12,500
Base Arizona$12,500
Confidence Kits Inc$10,000
Lights Camera Discover$10,000
Little Humble Entrepreneurs Foundation$10,000
The Joy Bus$10,000
Larry Thomas Youth Development Corporation$10,000
Young & Empowered Women$10,000
Local First Arizona$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Agua Fria Food and Clothing Bank Inc: $13k → 11%Arizona State Fire Training Committee Inc: $13k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Empty Bowl Pet Food Pantry Inc

Through pets and community we help people in crisis and disaster to their new norm through resiliency.

Animals
2
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
3
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
4
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
5
Impact of Southern Arizona

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.

Community Improvement
6
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
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7
Alliance for Arizona Animal Protection

Prevention of animal cruelty and intervention on behalf of animals being abused.

Animals
8
The Dons of Arizona
Education
9
Azcend

AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.

Human Services
10
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance

Bridging the gap for arizona communities with nourishment for today and hope for tomorrow.

Food & Nutrition
11
Caring Coalition Az

Provide food for at risk families

Human Services
12
Arizona Faith and Families Charities

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agua Fria Food & Clothing Bank Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
7/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

100 CLUB OF ARIZONA: $30,000 · Other100 CLUB OF ARIZONAWilson School District #7: $15,000 · OtherWilson School District #7A PERMANENT VOICE: $12,500 · OtherA PERMANENT VOICEBASE ARIZONA: $12,500 · OtherBASE ARIZONALITTLE HUMBLE ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherLITTLE HUMBLE ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATIONNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATIONYOUNG & EMPOWERED WOMEN: $10,000 · OtherYOUNG & EMPOWERED WOMENSHETHRIVES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherSHETHRIVES FOUNDATIONCONFIDENCE KITS INC: $10,000 · OtherCONFIDENCE KITS INCLOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS: $10,000 · OtherLOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESSCREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONNATURAL RESTORATIONS: $7,500 · OtherKaruna Horse Rescue Inc: $27,500 · AnimalsKaruna Horse Res…HELP A DOG SMILE: $12,500 · AnimalsHELP A DOG SMILETHE BARN HOUSE COMMUNITY: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE BARN HOUSE C…Autism Society of Greater Phoenix: $17,500 · HealthAutism Soci…DOWN SYNDROME NETWORK INC DBA DSNetwork: $10,000 · HealthDOWN SYNDRO…FAMILIES RAISING HOPE: $7,500 · HealthFAMILIES RA…MATTHEW'S CROSSING: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMATTHEW'S …THE JOY BUS: $10,000 · Food & NutritionTHE JOY BU…Friends of the Quartzsite Food Bank: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFriends of…UNITED SOUND INC: $27,500 · EducationUNITED SO…AGUA FRIA FOOD & CLOTHING BANK INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesARIZONA STATE FIRE TRAINING COMMITTEE INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesLarry Thomas Youth Development Corporation: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLights Camera Discover: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$147,500Animals$50,000Health$35,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Education$27,500Human Services$25,000Youth Development$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget100 CLUB OF ARIZONA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED SOUND INC: $27,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetKaruna Horse Rescue Inc: $27,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetAutism Society of Greater Phoenix: $17,500 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetAGUA FRIA FOOD & CLOTHING BANK INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARIZONA STATE FIRE TRAINING COMMITTEE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHELP A DOG SMILE: $12,500 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetTHE BARN HOUSE COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMATTHEW'S CROSSING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JOY BUS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of the Quartzsite Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetLarry Thomas Youth Development Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLights Camera Discover: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME NETWORK INC DBA DSNetwork: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNATURAL RESTORATIONS: $7,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFAMILIES RAISING HOPE: $7,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arizona Community Fou…Thunderbirds CharitiesThe Albertsons Compan…John F Long Foundatio…Phoenix Suns Charitie…Arizona Food Bank Net…Virginia G Piper Char…St Mary's Food Bank A…American Express Foun…Enterprise Holdings F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ30.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arizona Financial Credit Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arizona Financial Credit Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Arizona Financial Credit Union?

    Find your warmest path to Arizona Financial Credit Union through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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