Arizona · Public charity
Desert Financial Credit Union
At desert financial, relationships drive success. We share our financial success because we believe it's the right thing to do for our members, our community and our team.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 59
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $23,520
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $278,251
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 51
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.8B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Desert Financial Credit Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 58 | $2.1M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $1.7M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $1.4M | 37% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $1.2M | 59% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $797k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desert Financial Foundation | $970,775 | 4 | 27% |
| Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation | $690,105 | 5 | 1% |
| Arizona Educational Foundation Inc | $486,705 | 5 | 17% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $413,727 | 4 | 0% |
| Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix | $189,201 | 5 | 0% |
| Flagstaff Family Food Center | $175,275 | 4 | 1% |
| A New Leaf | $172,453 | 5 | 0% |
| United Food Bank | $159,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona | $159,150 | 5 | 3% |
| The Foster Alliance | $153,065 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 105 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Desert Financial Credit Union supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 99 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · American Express Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · Margaret T Morris Foundation
How this is measured
About Desert Financial Credit Union
- How much does Desert Financial Credit Union give?
- Desert Financial Credit Union reported 59 itemized grants totaling $2,079,730, out of $2,343,410 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Desert Financial Credit Union fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (21%), Education (18%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Desert Financial Credit Union's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Desert Financial Foundation ($971k), Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ($690k), Arizona Educational Foundation Inc ($487k).
- Does Desert Financial Credit Union fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Desert Financial Credit Union?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Thunderbirds Charities, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust.
- Where is Desert Financial Credit Union based?
- Desert Financial Credit Union is based in AZ.
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