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Cardinal Charities Inc

The purpose of the organization is to raise and distribute funds to other qualified section 501(c)(3) organizations.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$57k
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.

Public Safety & Disaster$1.5MEducation$1.1MHealth$928kHuman Services$703kYouth Development$473kRecreation & Sports$324kCommunity Improvement$200kHousing & Shelter$185kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $247,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,921,001 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,674,001 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $183k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PARENTS OF ADDICTED LOVED ONES$10,000
ICAN POSITIVE PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH$10,000
TREASURE HOUSE$10,000
AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS$10,000
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF ARIZONA$10,000
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA$10,000
DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY$10,000
A NEW LEAF$10,000
CHRYSALIS SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC$10,000
PHOENIX RESCUE MISSION$10,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AVIVA CHILDRENS SERVICES: $10k → 15%COLORADO RIVER REGIONAL CRISIS SHELTER: $10k → 20%AMERICAN RED CROSS AZ REGION: $406k → 14%COLORADO RIVER REGIONAL CRISIS SHELTER: $10k → 20%AMERICAN RED CROSS AZ REGION: $63k → 14%YMCA OF THE USA: $67k → 14%AROUET FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS AZ REGION: $10k → 14%YMCA OF THE USA: $57k → 14%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $10k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $10k → 15%ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $11k → 15%YMCA - COPPER BASIN: $10k → 11%YMCA - FLAGSTAFF FAMILY BRANCH: $10k → 11%YMCA - ROSS FARNSWORTH EAST VALLEY: $9k → 11%AROUET FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $17k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $10k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 11%Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence: $20k → 11%CHRYSALIS SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $10k → 11%CHRYSALIS SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10k → 11%CHRYSALIS SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $10k → 11%ASTER AGING INC(FKA EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES): $10k → 11%CHRYSALIS SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 11%ASTER AGING INC: $10k → 11%CHRYSALIS SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10k → 11%CHRYSALIS SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC: $14k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC: $13k → 11%ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED: $10k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC: $10k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC: $10k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX: $10k → 11%ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED: $10k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC: $10k → 11%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $10k → 11%ABILITY360 SPORTS & FITNESS CENTER: $10k → 11%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $10k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PHOENIX INC: $10k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PHOENIX INC: $10k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PHOENIX INC: $10k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PHOENIX INC: $10k → 11%NEW LIFE CENTER: $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

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IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
CA
AZ
KS
TN
DC
LA
TX
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 47 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
73

Total granted

$3.2M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+21%

Still filing today

98%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2017–2021 · $479k · revenue +46%
  • TW
    THE WASHINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $400k · revenue +65%
  • DH
    DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $202k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • SO
    State of Arizona
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • MH
    Mesquite High School
    one grant, 2022 · $400k
  • LF
    LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +76%
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
Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
2
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
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 Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health
5
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence Inc

The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.

Education
6
Pro-Choice Arizona

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…

Health
7
Foster 360

Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.

Human Services
8
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

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.

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9
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

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11
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
12
Ymca of Southern Arizona

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,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

114 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. 114 of the 127 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/114
Grantees still filing
79/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

State of Arizona: $1,000,000 · OtherState of ArizonaMesquite High School: $400,000 · OtherMesquite High SchoolTANQUE VERDE HIGH FOOTBALL BOOSTER CLUB: $100,140 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC: $100,000 · Other+58 more: $1,322,844 · Other+58 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $478,779 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red …Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $186,000 · Human ServicesValley of the Sun Youn…ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $101,667 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATIONChrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc: $80,000 · Human ServicesChrysalis Shelter for …CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $56,500 · Human Services+22 more: $374,998 · Human Services+22 moreDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY: $201,667 · HealthDIGNITY HEALT…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $186,667 · HealthBARROW NEUROL…SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $92,625 · HealthSOUTHWEST AUT…Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $70,000 · HealthPhoenix Child…A NEW LEAF: $60,000 · HealthA NEW LEAFAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,027 · HealthAMERICAN CANC…+6 more: $80,000 · Health+6 moreTHE WASHINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · EducationTHE WASHI…POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $40,000 · EducationPOSITIVE …THE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $30,000 · EducationTHE FOSTE…ACCEL: $22,500 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $20,000 · Education+4 more: $40,000 · Education+4 moreICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS: $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $89,829 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA: $48,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAMION GOSA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION AZ: $15,500 · Youth Development+5 more: $42,500 · Youth DevelopmentLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Community ImprovementFULFILLMENT IN TRAINING: $31,000 · Community ImprovementSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $20,000 · Community ImprovementARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC: $93,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA FOOTBALL INC: $36,337 · Recreation & SportsJAGUARS BOOSTER CLUB: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,922,984Human Services$1,277,944Health$740,986Education$552,500Youth Development$315,829Community Improvement$251,000Recreation & Sports$244,337

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 budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $478,779 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY: $201,667 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $186,667 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $186,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $101,667 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS: $95,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC: $93,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $92,625 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $89,829 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetChrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc: $80,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $67,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $65,462 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHope Ignites Phoenix: $60,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetA NEW LEAF: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $59,279 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $57,770 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $56,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,027 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES FOR CASA CHILDREN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA: $48,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JOY BUS: $45,754 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTREASURE HOUSE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOJOURNER CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHyundai Hope on Wheels: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF ARIZONA INC: $37,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUSA FOOTBALL INC: $36,337 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $31,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT: $31,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCIRCLE THE CITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST PLACE AZ: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $28,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASTER AGING INC (FKA EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES INC): $27,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADVOCACY 31NINE: $27,500 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $23,819 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACCEL: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% 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.

Thunderbirds CharitiesArizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…Phoenix Suns Charitie…The Diane and Bruce H…Fiesta Events IncValley of the Sun Uni…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…John F Long Foundatio…The Foundation for Co…BHHS Legacy FoundationAmerican Express Foun…
Thunderbirds CharitiesAZ95.7× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 127 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.1M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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