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Desert Financial Credit Union

At desert financial, relationships drive success.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$278k
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 2024.

Health$1.5MEducation$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MYouth Development$643kFood & Nutrition$633kPhilanthropy$593kHousing & Shelter$258kRecreation & Sports$212kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 59 grants below total $2,079,730, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,343,410 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $263,680 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $972k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $793k
  • $250k+1 grant · $278k
$23,520
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIVE THE SOLUTION (DBA EARN TO LEARN): $24k → 15%JOHNJAY & RICH LOVEUP FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LIVE THE SOLUTION (DBA EARN TO LEARN): $10k → 15%EARN TO LEARN: $10k → 15%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK INC: $50k → 14%LIVE THE SOLUTION (DBA EARN TO LEARN): $10k → 15%LIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $8k → 15%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK: $25k → 14%PRESCOTT MEALS ON WHEELS: $50k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $24k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $13k → 14%CHRYSALIS: $10k → 11%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $30k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $25k → 11%HELPING HANDS FOR FREEDOM: $15k → 11%BILLY'S PLACE: $57k → 11%BILLY'S PLACE: $22k → 11%BILLY'S PLACE: $16k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX: $45k → 11%BILLY'S PLACE INC: $15k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX: $41k → 11%BILLY'S PLACE: $10k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX: $41k → 11%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY CITYSERVE: $6k → 11%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $31k → 11%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $25k → 11%ARIZONA CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $20k → 11%US VETS 3: $10k → 11%GABRIEL'S ANGELS: $14k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 61 repeat orgs$717k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
35

Total granted

$6.4M
$555k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • DF
    DESERT FINANCIAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $971k · revenue +11% · 27% of their budget
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $690k · revenue +15%
  • AE
    ARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $487k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +31%
  • PM
    PRESCOTT MEALS ON WHEELS
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • WV
    WEST VALLEY MAVERICKS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +331%
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 Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
3
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
4
Pro-Choice Arizona

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…

Health
5
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
6
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.

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7
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
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8
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

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.

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9
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
10
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence Inc

The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.

Education
11
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

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.

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12
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona; 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.
04the grantee network

104 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. 104 of the 107 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/104
Grantees still filing
68/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $690,105 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospita…American Heart Association Inc: $413,727 · HealthAmerican Heart Association…A NEW LEAF: $172,453 · HealthA NEW LEAFNorthern Arizona Healthcare Corporation: $126,500 · HealthNorthern Arizona Healthcar…NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $103,920 · HealthNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTION…HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION-NORTHERN ARIZONA: $73,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $64,515 · Health+5 more: $61,340 · HealthARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $486,705 · OtherARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER: $175,275 · OtherFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTERBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $132,348 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INCCandelen Inc: $103,670 · OtherSt Joseph the Worker: $102,600 · OtherFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $159,150 · OtherFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZ…DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $189,201 · OtherDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF S…+40 more: $1,034,887 · Other+40 moreDESERT FINANCIAL FOUNDATION: $970,775 · PhilanthropyDESERT FINANCIAL …+6 more: $114,850 · Philanthropy+6 moreTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $153,065 · EducationTHE FOSTER …LAPTOPS 4 LEARNING: $127,545 · EducationLAPTOPS 4 L…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $106,500 · EducationARIZONA STA…NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $88,333 · EducationNORTHERN AR…Tynkertopia Inc: $69,900 · EducationTynkertopia…Jobs for Arizona's Graduates: $49,515 · EducationJobs for Ar…THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT FOUNDATION: $28,600 · EducationPrescott Unified School District Education Found: $28,500 · Education+4 more: $62,000 · Education+4 moreDelivering Dreams of Arizona: $126,240 · Human ServicesDelivering …BILLY'S PLACE INC: $119,545 · Human ServicesBILLY'S PLA…Yavapai Food Bank Inc: $75,005 · Human ServicesYavapai Foo…UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $65,645 · Human ServicesUNITED STAT…LIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $61,030 · Human ServicesLIVE THE SO…MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $55,000 · Human ServicesMIDWEST FOO…PRESCOTT MEALS ON WHEELS: $50,155 · Human ServicesPRESCOTT ME…CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $36,090 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human Services+8 more: $92,820 · Human Services+8 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $96,005 · Youth DevelopmentThe Launch Pad Teen Center: $71,000 · Youth DevelopmentYAVAPAI BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $48,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA: $43,570 · Youth DevelopmentSolid Rock Foundation Inc: $41,740 · Youth DevelopmentLIVE AND LEARN PROGRAM: $26,020 · Youth DevelopmentFUTURE FOR KIDS: $23,685 · Youth Development+2 more: $15,040 · Youth DevelopmentUnited Food Bank: $159,200 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
Health$1,705,560Other$2,383,836Philanthropy$1,085,625Education$713,958Human Services$706,530Youth Development$365,810Food & Nutrition$266,700

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 budgetDESERT FINANCIAL FOUNDATION: $970,775 over 4y, 27% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $690,105 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $486,705 over 5y, 17% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $413,727 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $189,201 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER: $175,275 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetA NEW LEAF: $172,453 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Food Bank: $159,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $159,150 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $153,065 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $132,348 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAPTOPS 4 LEARNING: $127,545 over 4y, 14% of budgetNorthern Arizona Healthcare Corporation: $126,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDelivering Dreams of Arizona: $126,240 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBILLY'S PLACE INC: $119,545 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $106,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $103,920 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCandelen Inc: $103,670 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSt Joseph the Worker: $102,600 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $96,005 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $88,333 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYavapai Food Bank Inc: $75,005 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION-NORTHERN ARIZONA: $73,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Launch Pad Teen Center: $71,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTynkertopia Inc: $69,900 over 3y, 14% of budgetSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $67,550 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $65,645 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBBB OF CENTRAL ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $64,515 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $61,030 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $56,581 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF REFUGE INC: $56,350 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth: $51,780 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPRESCOTT MEALS ON WHEELS: $50,155 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetJobs for Arizona's Graduates: $49,515 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetYAVAPAI BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $48,750 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLOWELL OBSERVATORY: $46,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $45,020 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Services Campus Inc: $44,526 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA: $43,570 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSolid Rock Foundation Inc: $41,740 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX: $41,065 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPRESCOTT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $40,160 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $36,090 over 2y, 0.1% 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…Thunderbirds CharitiesVirginia G Piper Char…John F Long Foundatio…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…The Diane and Bruce H…Valley of the Sun Uni…The Foundation for Co…Phoenix Suns Charitie…American Express Foun…Burton Family Foundat…Margaret T Morris Fou…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ94.1× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Desert Financial Credit Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Desert Financial Credit Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 107 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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