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Chicanos Por la Causa Inc Cplc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Chicanos Por la Causa Inc Cplc

We drive economic and political empowerment.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$170k
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 2025.

Civil Rights$11MEducation$2.7MCommunity Improvement$745kHealth$273kArts & Culture$124kReligion$80kHuman Services$56kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $541,254, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,629,587 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,088,333 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $437k
$23,454
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION$170,000
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$135,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$132,300
MEXICAN TABLE LLC$25,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$23,454
CROSIER VILLAGE OF PHOENIX$20,000
UNITED PHOENIX FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY$10,000
FOUR PEAKS LITTLE LEAGUE$10,000
XICO INC$5,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%CHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10k → 11%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 14%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $6k → 11%ABILITY 360: $5k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 15 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
30

Total granted

$14M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+18%

Still filing today

73%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementInternationalRecreation & 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× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +109%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $647k · revenue +53%
  • NA
    NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $185k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • CT
    CPLC TEXAS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $562k · revenue +7%
  • CN
    CPLC NEVADA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue ×11
  • NH
    NATIVE HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $37k · revenue +92%
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 Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
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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3
Greater Phoenix Economic Council

The organization's mission is to attract and grow quality businesses and advocate for greater phoenix's competitiveness.

Community Improvement
4
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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5
Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc

To promote higher business standards and advancement of common interest of its members, to improve business conditions in the metro phoenix area, to promote economic, social, and cultural development and the role of spanish speaking…

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6
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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7
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona

The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…

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8
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
9
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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10
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
11
Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation

Greater phoenix chamber foundation (gpcf), a 501c3 launched in 2016, leads the charitable and education initiatives of the greater phoenix chamber under the four pillars of education, workforce development, wellness, and research. the…

Philanthropy
12
Aclu Foundation of Arizona

The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cplc Action Fund; the most unlike its peers is Wegrow 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

37 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. 37 of the 50 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
23/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CPLC ACTION FUND: $10,670,000 · Community ImprovementCPLC ACTION FUNDCPLC TEXAS INC: $562,298 · Community Improvement+1 more: $125,000 · Community ImprovementUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $1,127,942 · EducationUniversity of A…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $647,100 · EducationARIZONA STATE U…NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $185,000 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZON…+2 more: $36,623 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $555,954 · OtherARIZONA S…The Pete C Garcia Victoria Foundation INC: $111,250 · OtherThe Pete …CROSIER VILLAGE OF PHOENIX: $80,000 · OtherCROSIER V…LATINO PRIDE ALLIANCE: $60,000 · OtherNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · Other+26 more: $345,293 · Other+26 moreMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $128,275 · PhilanthropyLULAC INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropySouthwest Folklife Alliance Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL COALITION INC: $11,300 · Arts & CultureXico Inc: $5,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Heart Association Inc: $55,000 · HealthVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthPHOENIX SISTER CITIES: $42,500 · InternationalARIZONA-MEXICO COMMISSION: $17,500 · International
Community Improvement$11,357,298Education$1,996,665Other$1,212,497Philanthropy$193,275Arts & Culture$66,800Health$61,000International$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCPLC ACTION FUND: $10,670,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $1,127,942 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $647,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCPLC TEXAS INC: $562,298 over 1y, 11% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $128,275 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCPLC NEVADA INC: $125,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetThe Pete C Garcia Victoria Foundation INC: $111,250 over 4y, 32% of budgetCROSIER VILLAGE OF PHOENIX: $80,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX SISTER CITIES: $42,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLULAC INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNATIVE HEALTH: $36,667 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Legion: $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthwest Folklife Alliance Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VALLEY REGIONAL CHAMBER: $26,500 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetGREATER PHOENIX LEADERSHIP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCULTURAL COALITION INC: $11,300 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPRESCOTT COLLEGE INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA: $9,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCPLC COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $9,123 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIESTA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $8,525 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Police Reserve Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABILITY360 INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Virginia G Piper Char…The Foundation for Co…Phoenix Suns Charitie…Helios Education Foun…Arizona Diamondbacks …Burton Family Foundat…Thunderbirds CharitiesFlinn FoundationGarcia Family Foundat…Arizona Humanities Co…The Diane and Bruce H…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ32.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Helios Education Foundation · Arizona Diamondbacks Foundationinc · Burton Family Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Flinn Foundation · Garcia Family Foundation · Arizona Humanities Council Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle 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 Chicanos Por la Causa Inc Cplc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicanos Por la Causa Inc Cplc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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