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Banner Health

Banner Health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".

$70M
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$67M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$255MHealth$5.8MRecreation & Sports$1.1MCommunity Improvement$979kHuman Services$290kArts & Culture$239kCivil Rights$184kPhilanthropy$164kOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $148k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $791k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $748k
  • $250k+2 grants · $68M
$11,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$17.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$67,322,090
MCKEE WELLNESS FOUNDATION$325,000
PERIMETER BICYCLING ASSN OF AM$175,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$170,085
COALITION TO PROTECT AMERICAS HEALTH CARE$125,000
SCHOOL CHOICE ARIZONA$120,000
GREELEY INDEPENDENCE STAMPEDE$57,293
BANNER HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,500
CONNECT MARICOPA$50,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$48,420
CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA$43,200
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$37,250
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES PHOENIX$35,000
SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION$35,000
FRIENDS OF HORSESHOE PARK$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $15k → 15%AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $14k → 9%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA: $43k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA: $35k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA: $35k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA: $35k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES PHOENIX: $35k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES PHOENIX: $25k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES PHOENIX: $15k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES PHOENIX: $15k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES PHOENIX: $13k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES PHOENIX: $10k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES PHOENIX: $10k → 11%MISSION OF MERCY AZ: $10k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES PHOENIX: $8k → 11%HONORING ARIZONAS VETERANS: $10k → 11%HONORING AMERICAS VETERANS: $10k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHLDRNS SVC: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
NV
WY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
AL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$262M · 66 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
56

Total granted

$262M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+5%

Still filing today

86%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $477k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • University of Arizona Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $252M · revenue +109% · 30% of their budget
  • MM
    MCKEE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +49% · 64% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
    one grant, 2023 · $162k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO
    one grant, 2022 · $153k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2020 · $130k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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2
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

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3
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
4
Arizona Technology Council

To connect and strengthen arizona's technology industry and community, promote state and federal policies that enhance arizona's technology industry, deliver quality content and events to educate those working in arizona's expanding…

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5
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
6
Arizona Association of Community Health Centers Inc

To promote and facilitate the development and delivery of affordable and accessible primary healthcare for everyone in arizona through advocacy, education and technical assistance.

Health
7
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
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8
Arizona Wins

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…

Civil Rights
9
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
10
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health
11
Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry

A statewide advocacy organization that advances arizona business and the arizona economy. the arizona chamber of commerce and industry is commited to advancing arizona's competitive position in the global economy by advocating free market…

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12
Arizona Hospital & Healthcare Association

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Phoenix Leadership Inc; the most unlike its peers is Goshen County Junior Livestock Sale. 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

118 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 118 of the 152 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/118
Grantees still filing
73/118
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Arizona Foundation: $252,336,234 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation+8 more: $2,030,082 · EducationMCKEE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,288,400 · HealthWELD LEGACY FOUNDATION: $430,299 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $251,053 · HealthSUN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $195,000 · Health+34 more: $1,261,782 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $903,096 · OtherGREELEY INDEPENDENCE STAMPEDE INC: $203,409 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $162,321 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO: $152,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $130,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF HORSESHOE PARK: $125,000 · Other+77 more: $2,056,979 · OtherPERIMETER BICYCLING ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $650,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $130,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $17,500 · Recreation & SportsCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $148,200 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $131,120 · Human ServicesHONORING AMERICAS VETERANS: $20,000 · Human ServicesAngel Charity for Children Inc: $14,800 · Human ServicesAREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION ONE INC: $13,500 · Human Services+3 more: $25,171 · Human ServicesGREATER PHOENIX ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $210,000 · Community ImprovementLIVING STREETS ALLIANCE: $75,000 · Community ImprovementQUEEN CREEK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $26,500 · Community ImprovementTucson Conquistadores Inc: $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY: $84,000 · PhilanthropyEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $54,250 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $30,000 · Philanthropy911 TOWER CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $15,275 · Philanthropy
Education$254,366,316Health$4,426,534Other$3,733,305Recreation & Sports$797,500Human Services$352,791Community Improvement$336,500Philanthropy$233,525

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $252,336,234 over 8y, 30% of budgetMCKEE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,288,400 over 7y, 64% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,005,543 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSCHOOL CHOICE ARIZONA INC: $732,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetPERIMETER BICYCLING ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $650,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetWELD LEGACY FOUNDATION: $430,299 over 7y, 11% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $251,053 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PHOENIX ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $210,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGREELEY INDEPENDENCE STAMPEDE INC: $203,409 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSUN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $195,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $148,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $131,120 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $130,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCOALITION TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE: $125,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF HORSESHOE PARK: $125,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetGREATER PHOENIX LEADERSHIP INC: $123,750 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $120,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $115,994 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDAISY FOUNDATION: $113,537 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHEASTERN RURAL HEALTH CLINICS INC: $110,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFORT COLLINS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $93,925 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetKEEPING ARIZONA HEALTHY: $86,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY: $84,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $82,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $82,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $77,210 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetLIVING STREETS ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $68,300 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC: $65,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetMHA FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC: $60,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREELEYWELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $60,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $59,835 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $54,250 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $53,470 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ARIZONA LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMESA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $48,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCHANDLER COMPADRES INC: $43,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $42,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIntegrative Touch: $40,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetARIZONA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $37,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGOOTTER-JENSEN FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetLASSEN JUNIOR LIVESTOCK AUCTION COMMITTEE INC: $31,670 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetGOSHEN COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SALE: $31,252 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetARIZONA HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $30,150 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOVELAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $30,010 over 4y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MCKEE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL CHOICE ARIZONA INC ↗
  • Who funds PERIMETER BICYCLING ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds WELD LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PHOENIX ECONOMIC COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds GREELEY INDEPENDENCE STAMPEDE INC ↗
  • Who funds SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC ↗
  • Who funds COALITION TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HORSESHOE PARK ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PHOENIX LEADERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds DAISY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN RURAL HEALTH CLINICS INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT COLLINS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds KEEPING ARIZONA HEALTHY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LIVING STREETS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
  • Who funds MHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗

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.

Mercy CareArizona Community Fou…Community Foundation …Virginia G Piper Char…The Foundation for Co…Tucson Medical CenterJewish Community Foun…The Diane and Bruce H…Phoenix Suns Charitie…Thunderbirds CharitiesWeld Community Founda…The Hs Lopez Family F…
Mercy CareAZ37.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mercy Care · Arizona Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Tucson Medical Center · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Thunderbirds Charities · Weld Community Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation

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 Banner Health funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Banner Health. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 152 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home