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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
SUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC$3,000
SOLID ROCK FOUNDATION INC$2,500
WEST-MEC ALLIANCE$2,500
GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC$2,500
02The need
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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 (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 its 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%OLD TOWN MISSION: $1k → 14%LUKE AIR FORCE BASE TOP 3 COUNCIL: $2k → 11%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
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

WA
IL
WI
OH
CA
UT
CO
AZ
AL
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 92% of Cu West Cares Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 7%.

Cu West Cares Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foster Alliance; 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.
05the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 106 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
36/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & CultureTHEATER WORKS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureArizona Theatre Company: $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 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 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 budgetScripps Howard Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 budgetWEST-MEC ALLIANCE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFIGHTER COUNTRY FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOld Town Mission Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERDE VALLEY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $1,885 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKITCHEN ON THE STREET INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAGUA FRIA FOOD & CLOTHING BANK INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Sports Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budget944 FW CHIEFS GROUP: $1,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSTEPS TO RECOVERY HOMES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAZ COMMUNITY IMPACT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEORIA DIAMOND CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER WORKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Theatre Company: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARLOT HALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AZ: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESA ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIREFIGHTER ANGEL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBethanys Gait Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYAVAPAI BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Verde Valley Chamber of Commerce: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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…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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 106 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-PF 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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