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$496k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$339k
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, FY2020 to 2023.

Human Services$2.6MHealth$725kInternational$542kFood & Nutrition$150kCrime & Legal$102kEducation$34kReligion$14kYouth Development$6k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $483,195, the rows itemized in this filing. The $496,292 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,097 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 · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $129k
  • $250k+1 grant · $339k
$128,754
Median grant
1
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Phoenix Dream Center$339,221
The Dream Institute$128,754
Dream City Schools$15,220
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 (FY20–23, $2.8M) 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%GOOD NEWS INDIA: $6k → 11%SHORT CREEK DREAM CENTER: $850k → 11%THE DREAM INSTITUTE: $343k → 11%THE DREAM INSTITUTE: $253k → 11%The Dream Institute: $129k → 11%THRIVE AZ FOSTER CARE PREVENTION REUNIFICATION AND AGED OUT: $7k → 11%CITY HELP INC OF PHOENIX DBA PHOENIX DREAM CENTER: $382k → 11%Phoenix Dream Center: $339k → 11%Phoenix Dream Center: $319k → 11%CITY HELP OF PHOENIX INC: $204k → 11%Church on the Street: $9k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 6 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$3.9M
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+8%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesReligionCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • TD
    THE DREAM INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +29% · 67% of their budget
  • CH
    CITY HELP INC OF PHOENIX
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +65%
  • RM
    RAHMAN MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $520k · revenue -2% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • CL
    COASTLINE LEGACY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue -18%
  • CO
    CHURCH ON THE STREET INC
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
  • TA
    THRIVE AZ FOSTER CARE PREVENTION REUNIFICATION AND AGED OUTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +672%
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
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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2
World Outreach Conference Center

Providing shelter for the homeless

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3
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
4
Source of Hope Ministries
Religion
5
Streams in the Desert Recovery Hous

Will provide a substance free environment for women desiring help in their recovery process, where they can develop their faith, living and employment

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6
Covenant House New Orleans

Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…

Human Services
7
California Human Trafficking Investigators and Prosecuters Asso
Crime & Legal
8
Dream Foundation Arizona
Employment
9
Islands of Hope Dream Center

Islands of Hope Dream Center exists to restore hope and dignity to women who have survived human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Our mission is to provide a safe, Christ-centered home where each woman is welcomed into a community,…

Public Benefit
10
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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11
Hilo Ministries Inc

To be an organization where people are excited to assist in the love and care of the orphan and those in foster care, as well as providing temporary housing and training for those in the worldwide missionary field.

Human Services
12
Hilltop of Hope

Rescuing and training women trapped in human sex trafficking: training in gospel assisting in trauma recovery and training for new ways to work.Supporting ministries in the front lines of combating human and sex trafficiking.Providing…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Streetlightusa; the most unlike its peers is Rahman Ministries 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DREAM INSTITUTE INC: $1,574,894 · Human ServicesTHE DREAM INSTITUTE INCCITY HELP INC OF PHOENIX: $1,259,248 · Human ServicesCITY HELP INC OF PHOENIX+1 more: $7,174 · Human ServicesRAHMAN MINISTRIES INC: $520,183 · ReligionRAHMAN MINISTR…+1 more: $1,200 · ReligionSHORT CREEK SOCIAL SERVICES: $443,785 · OtherSHORT CREEK S…DREAM CITY SCHOOLS INC: $34,106 · OtherDREAM CITY SC…+3 more: $19,000 · OtherCONVOY OF HOPE: $150,000 · InternationalCOASTLINE LEGACY INC: $16,316 · InternationalSTREETLIGHTUSA: $101,500 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$2,841,316Religion$521,383Other$496,891International$166,316Crime & Legal$101,500

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 budgetTHE DREAM INSTITUTE INC: $1,574,894 over 3y, 67% of budgetCITY HELP INC OF PHOENIX: $1,259,248 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetRAHMAN MINISTRIES INC: $520,183 over 2y, 34% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETLIGHTUSA: $101,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOASTLINE LEGACY INC: $16,316 over 1y, 13% of budgetSCOTT HINKLE OUTREACH MINISTRIES IN: $1,200 over 1y, 0.5% 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…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 City Help Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from City Help Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 13 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $123k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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