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Childrens Action Alliance Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Childrens Action Alliance Inc

Through research publications, media campaigns, and advocacy, CAA seeks to influence policies and decisions affecting the lives of Arizona children and their families on issues related to health, child abuse and neglect, early care and education, budget and taxes, children and immigration and working families.

$128k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$208kCommunity Improvement$175kPublic Benefit$100kFood & Nutrition$70kHealth$68kHuman Services$45kCivil Rights$38k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $122,377, the rows itemized in this filing. The $128,377 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,000 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.
$22,877
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AZ ADVISORY COUNCIL INDIAN HC$35,000
ASIAN PACIFIC COMM IN ACTION$30,000
AZ FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN$22,877
Child & Family Resources Inc$22,000
ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMEN$12,500
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 (FY25–25, $75k) 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%Child & Family Resources Inc: $22k → 15%ASIAN PACIFIC COMM IN ACTION: $30k → 11%AZ FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN: $23k → 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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$360k · 4 repeat orgs$344k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +785% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$360k
$234k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+785%
0%

Still filing today

75%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationOther
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

  • ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT
    4× · 2019–2025 · $213k · revenue ×13
  • AF
    ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK
    2× · 2021–2022 · $70k · revenue +785%
  • ONE ARIZONA
    2× · 2019–2021 · $50k · revenue +416%

Funded once

  • SH
    SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $109k · revenue -15%
  • PA
    PROGRESS ARIZONAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +177%
  • AE
    Arizona Early Childhood Education Association
    one grant, 2023 · $24k
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 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
2
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
3
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
—
4
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
5
Arizona Education Association

To elevate the education profession and promote the cause of education and to provide member support in arizona.

—
6
Arizona Public Health Association

A nonprofit professional organization working to improve the health of Arizona communities through advocacy, education, and professional development.

Health
7
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
8
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
9
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

—
10
Opportunity Arizona

Opportunity arizona is an issue advocacy organization whose mission is to grow more opportunities and improve the quality of life for hard-working arizonans.

Civil Rights
11
Az State American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization

To encourage the formation of Local Trades and Labor Unions and to help working men and women achieve higher standards of living and working conditions in the state of Arizona.

—
12
Child Parent Centers

We deliver head start and related programs throughout southeastern az for prenatal through preschool aged children and their families. the focus of our work is: early childhood education & school readiness; health & nutrition; and parent…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Early Childhood Education Association; the most unlike its peers is Southwest Human Development Incorporated. 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $212,500 · Civil RightsARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENTPROGRESS ARIZONA: $50,000 · Civil RightsPROGRESS ARIZONAONE ARIZONA: $50,000 · Civil RightsONE ARIZONASOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $108,985 · OtherSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPO…AZ ADVISORY COUNCIL INDIAN HC: $35,000 · OtherAZ ADVISORY COUNCIL INDIAN HCAZ Association for the Education of Young Children: $27,000 · OtherAZ Association for the Education of…Arizona Early Childhood Education Association: $24,000 · OtherArizona Early Childhood Education A…SOUTHERN AZ ASSOC FOR THE ED OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $24,000 · OtherSOUTHERN AZ ASSOC FOR THE ED OF YOU…ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY IN ACTION: $30,000 · Human ServicesASIAN PACIFI…Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $22,877 · Human ServicesArizona Frie…CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesCHILD & FAMI…ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: $70,000 · Food & NutritionARIZONA FOO…ARIZONA HEAD START ASSOCIATION: $24,000 · EducationREGIONAL CENTER FOR BORDER HEALTH INC: $3,000 · Health
Civil Rights$312,500Other$218,985Human Services$74,877Food & Nutrition$70,000Education$24,000Health$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $212,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $108,985 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROGRESS ARIZONA: $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetONE ARIZONA: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY IN ACTION: $30,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetARIZONA HEAD START ASSOCIATION: $24,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSOUTHERN AZ ASSOC FOR THE ED OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $24,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $22,877 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL CENTER FOR BORDER HEALTH INC: $3,000 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…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Childrens Action Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Childrens Action Alliance Inc. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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 14 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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