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Cu West Cares Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$143k
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.

Education$113kHuman Services$70kAnimals$32kCommunity Improvement$22kHealth$21kPhilanthropy$16kFood & Nutrition$16kArts & Culture$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$108k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT$15,721
MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION$11,200
GOWEST FOUNDATION$10,000
THE FETCH FOUNDATION$9,583
OCJ KIDS$9,095
THE ARIZONA PET PROJECT$8,658
HALO ANIMAL RESCUE$7,929
THE WEST VALLEY MAVERICKS FOUNDATION INC$5,000
MARIAH'S MIRACLE$4,500
SUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$3,000
LEADERSHIP WEST$2,500
MUJER INC$2,500
VALLEY OF THE SUN CHAPTER$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WESTERN SPORTS FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%GOWEST FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $3k → 14%WESTERN SPORTS FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $3k → 14%WESTERN SPORTS FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $3k → 14%OLD TOWN MISSION: $1k → 14%LUKE AIR FORCE BASE TOP 3 COUNCIL: $2k → 11%OLD TOWN MISSION: $1k → 14%STEPS TO RECOVERY HOMES: $500 → 14%STEPS TO RECOVERY HOMES: $500 → 14%RYAN HOUSE: $1k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%AGUA FRIA FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $1k → 11%AGUA FRIA FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $500 → 11%OCJ KIDS: $9k → 11%OCJ KIDS: $2k → 11%OCJ KIDS: $2k → 11%SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $9k → 11%SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $1k → 11%SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $1k → 11%SUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC: $3k → 11%ZURIS CIRCLE MY BEAUTIFUL CIRCLE: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 92% of Cu West Cares Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 7% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Cu West Cares Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$168k · 40 repeat orgs$169k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
45

Total granted

$168k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+6%

Still filing today

60%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • MC
    MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +19%
  • OK
    OCJ KIDS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +6%
  • SB
    SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND
    3× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • GH
    GLENDALE HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AH
    AGAPE HOUSE PRESCOTT
    one grant, 2024 · $9k
  • S
    STREETLIGHTUSAgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +33%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
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
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
—
4
Az Hugs
Human Services
5
The Dons of Arizona
Education
6
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
7
Dream Foundation Arizona
Employment
8
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.

—
9
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
10
Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation
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11
Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
12
Graham County Search & Rescue Squad

Support gcso in rescue and searches

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foster Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Jazmines Journey. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and Shelter S…Supportive Housing & Servic…Veterans Service Organizati…Donor-Advised Funds & Found…Performing Arts Organizatio…Arizona Historical & Cultur…Cancer and Disease SupportArizona Policy Advocacy Org…Business & Professional Ass…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%18%<5yr17%4%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr14%30%20–35yr10%20%35–55yr10%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%11%<5yr17%4%5–10yr20%33%10–20yr14%32%20–35yr10%17%35–55yr10%3%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/68
the rest of the field
17%
3,102/18,410

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
36/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $17,321 · OtherGLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICTGLENDALE HIGH SCHOOL — $10,000 · OtherGLENDALE HIGH SCHOOLAGAPE HOUSE PRESCOTT — $9,105 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherVALLEY OF THE SUN CHAPTER — $7,500 · OtherYAVAPAI COUNTY FOOD BANK — $6,584 · OtherSTREETLIGHTUSA — $8,120 · Other+57 more — $114,910 · Other+57 moreOCJ KIDS — $12,095 · Human ServicesOCJ KIDSSOLDIERS BEST FRIEND — $11,489 · Human ServicesSOLDIERS BEST FRIEN…GOWEST FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesGOWEST FOUNDATIONGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesGIFT OF ADOPTION FU…VMLC CHARITIES — $5,000 · Human ServicesVMLC CHARITIESSUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA — $3,000 · Human Services+9 more — $11,500 · Human Services+9 morePENDERGAST ELEMENTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $23,000 · EducationPENDERGAST E…ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT — $4,950 · EducationARIZONA COUN…EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC — $4,000 · EducationEMBRY-RIDDLE…WEST-MEC ALLIANCE — $3,500 · EducationWEST-MEC ALL…THE FOSTER ALLIANCE — $2,000 · Education+2 more — $1,000 · EducationTHE FETCH FOUNDATION INC — $9,583 · AnimalsTHE FETCH …THE ARIZONA PET PROJECT — $8,658 · AnimalsTHE ARIZON…HALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC — $7,929 · AnimalsHALO HELPI…Arizona Small Dog Rescue — $5,743 · AnimalsArizona Sm…+1 more — $500 · AnimalsMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $12,200 · PhilanthropyScripps Howard Fund — $5,000 · PhilanthropyPACKAGES FROM HOME — $1,000 · PhilanthropyLEADERSHIP WEST INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureDRAGONSLAYERS BOOSTER CLUB — $4,000 · Arts & CultureWHAM ART ASSOCIATION — $2,200 · Arts & CultureArizona Theatre Company — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER WORKS INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureSHARLOT HALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AZ — $1,000 · Arts & CultureMESA ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION — $800 · Arts & CultureJAZMINES JOURNEY — $600 · Arts & CultureMARIAHS MIRACLE — $7,500 · HealthSOUNDS OF AUTISM INC — $3,000 · HealthCheck For a Lump — $1,500 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $1,000 · Health
Other$181,540Human Services$60,584Education$38,450Animals$32,413Philanthropy$18,200Arts & Culture$15,600Health$13,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPENDERGAST ELEMENTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $23,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $12,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOCJ KIDS — $12,095 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSOLDIERS BEST FRIEND — $11,489 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ARIZONA PET PROJECT — $8,658 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTREETLIGHTUSA — $8,120 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARIAHS MIRACLE — $7,500 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetArizona Small Dog Rescue — $5,743 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLENDALE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $5,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVMLC CHARITIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWEST VALLEY MAVERICKS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP WEST INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetScripps Howard Fund — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT — $4,950 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPrescott Valley Chamber of Commerce — $4,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDRAGONSLAYERS BOOSTER CLUB — $4,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIGHTER COUNTRY FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEST-MEC ALLIANCE — $3,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOUNDS OF AUTISM INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSolid Rock Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHAM ART ASSOCIATION — $2,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOld Town Mission Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERDE VALLEY FAIR ASSOCIATION — $1,885 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAGUA FRIA FOOD & CLOTHING BANK INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLuke Air Force Base Top 3 Council — $1,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCheck For a Lump — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKITCHEN ON THE STREET INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWestern Sports Foundation — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAZ COMMUNITY IMPACT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetArizona Theatre Company — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER WORKS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget944 FW CHIEFS GROUP — $1,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetRYAN HOUSE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEORIA DIAMOND CLUB — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARLOT HALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AZ — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPS TO RECOVERY HOMES — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMESA ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION — $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBethanys Gait Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJobs for Arizona's Graduates — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Verde Valley Chamber of Commerce — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYAVAPAI BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arizona Community Fou…American Express Foun…The Foundation for Co…Fiesta Events IncThunderbirds CharitiesVirginia G Piper Char…Desert Financial Cred…John F Long Foundatio…The Diane and Bruce H…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…The Albertsons Compan…Burton Family Foundat…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ47.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Fiesta Events Inc · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Desert Financial Credit Union · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Burton Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Cu West Cares Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Cu West Cares Inc?

Find your warmest path to Cu West Cares Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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