· Public charity
Desert Financial Credit Union
At desert financial, relationships drive success.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 59 grants below total $2,079,730 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,343,410 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $263,680 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $972k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $793k
- $250k+1 grant · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DESERT FINANCIAL FOUNDATION | $278,251 |
| THE FOSTER ALLIANCE | $120,220 |
| PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $116,815 |
| A NEW LEAF | $94,532 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $91,967 |
| DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $89,000 |
| NAU FOUNDATION | $88,333 |
| ARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $75,190 |
| FREE ARTS OF ARIZONA | $59,703 |
| BILLY'S PLACE | $56,745 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE | $48,505 |
| ASU FOUNDATION | $42,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX | $40,620 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE VALLEY | $38,848 |
| NEW PATHWAYS FOR YOUTH | $32,771 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $696k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
61 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DFDESERT FINANCIAL FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $971k · revenue +11% · 27% of their budget
- PCPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $690k · revenue +15%
- AEARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $487k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- SMST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +31%
- PMPRESCOTT MEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +22%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
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…
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…
To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in 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.
To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.
To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona and the most unlike its peers is West-Mec Alliance. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
104 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. 104 of the 107 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DESERT FINANCIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF ↗
- Who funds United Food Bank ↗
- Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds THE FOSTER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LAPTOPS 4 LEARNING ↗
- Who funds Northern Arizona Healthcare Corporation ↗
- Who funds Delivering Dreams of Arizona ↗
- Who funds BILLY'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Candelen Inc ↗
- Who funds St Joseph the Worker ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Yavapai Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION-NORTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds The Launch Pad Teen Center ↗
- Who funds Tynkertopia Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BBB OF CENTRAL ARIZONA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds New Pathways For Youth ↗
- Who funds PRESCOTT MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Jobs for Arizona's Graduates ↗
- Who funds YAVAPAI BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL OBSERVATORY ↗
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.
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
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 Desert Financial Credit Union 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.
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.